Apr 24 - New Zealand's travel and migration data out this morning will be one of the major releases this week for economists to review and digest. Historically, high net immigration is a major source of support to the New Zealand economy, having contributed more than 70% of resident population growth over the …

Apr 24 - The shipping company had been taken over by Maersk just two months beforehand and the new owners had put an end to passenger travel. Since setting out from London in 2011, Adam has travelled more than 100,000km around the globe without taking a plane: 72,000km by bike and the remaining …

Apr 24 - Car rental and tourism operator Jucy has opened a "pod hotel" in Queenstown aimed at millennial travellers in a city feeling the squeeze from the tourism boom.

Apr 23 - "There is a real romance to rail travel that international tourists are looking for as well as local enthusiasts, and still no better way to see our glorious countryside than by train." Jackson said Pounamu Tourism Group hoped to handle the ticketing in Picton for KiwiRail's Coastal Pacific once it returned to …

Feb 23 -  Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has introduced two new security checkpoint technologies at Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) in partnership with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to enhance security while improving the screening process for travellers. The first pilot project being launched at the airport uses facial recognition technology to automate the identification and boarding pass verification process. Travellers who are ticketed on an international flight can choose whether to use the biometric recognition system to verify their identity. After a traveller scans their boarding pass and passport, a camera activates and takes a photo of the…

Feb 15, 2018  -  Qantas is among investors backing a new system under development by a US travel technology company that aims to end airline overbooking and eliminate the embarrassing fiascos in which passengers are ordered off overbooked flights. Many airlines routinely overbook flights because a small number of passengers don’t show up and the carriers want to fill as many seats as possible before takeoff. The new system, called Yana, is designed to consign airline overbooking to history. Yana should allow airlines to work out which passengers are most likely to be flexible about their flights and happy to…

Feb 13, 2018  - Another month, another record at Christchurch Airport.  Figures just in show the record set in December 2017, for busiest month on record, was beaten in January.

Feb 13, 2018  -  Mt Ruapehu is getting a new state of the art $25 million 50-cabin gondola.  It will be the largest and most technically advanced in New Zealand travelling 1.8 kilometres and is on target to open for the start of the 2019 ski season. The new gondola is expected to contribute $50m per annum of additional visitor expenditure, and an additional 137 full-time jobs at Whakapapa in the restaurants, maintenance, sales, retail and transport teams. Source: TravelInc   ||  February 13, 2018   |||

Feb 01,  2018 -   Emirates, the world’s best airline according to TripAdvisor 2017, plans to launch a new, five times a week service from Dubai to Santiago International Airport (SCL) in Chile, starting on July 5, 2018.

Jan 23, 2018  -  Emirates SkyCargo offers enhanced protection for pharmaceutical cargo with launch of pharma corridors. Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, has stepped up its commitment to securely transport temperature sensitive pharmaceutical shipments with the introduction of pharma corridors offering additional protection across selected stations in its network for pharmaceutical cargo.

Jan 23, 2018  -  Hotels, motels, backpackers, and holiday parks benefited from widespread growth in November 2017, with total guest nights up 4.3 percent from November 2016, Stats NZ said today. International guest nights increased 5.6 percent in the month, with domestic guest nights close behind, up 3.1 percent. “An increase in visitor arrivals from Australia may have contributed to the growth in international guest nights,” accommodation statistics manager Melissa McKenzie said. “Fans here for the Rugby League World Cup may also have been a factor.” Hotels led the increase in total guest nights, with 50,000 more nights spent in…