SIT Library Guides: Travel, Tourism and Hotel Management: Web Resources

Government organisations

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is the government’s lead business-facing agency. Access information, resources, publications and research on a variety of business topics.

These Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment webpages are particularly useful for Tourism students:

Tourism: Access information on different aspects of the tourism sector.
Tourism research and data: Access New Zealand and international tourism data, along with a range of useful tools and publications.
New Zealand-Aotearoa government tourism strategy: The New Zealand-Aotearoa Government Tourism Strategy is more important than ever as we welcome visitors back to New Zealand. The Strategy sets out a more deliberate and active role for government in tourism.

SafeTravel
SafeTravel is the official source of travel advice for New Zealanders, with advisories for specific destinations. Checking SafeTravel helps you avoid travel blackspots. On SafeTravel you can also register your details and travel plans. If a crisis occurs overseas, MFAT will contact New Zealanders who have enrolled to check on their safety and well-being.
Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa
Stats NZ is New Zealand's official data agency. They collect information from people and organisations through censuses and surveys. This information is used to publish insights and data about New Zealand and support others to use the data.

Collated and useful statistical data for Tourism students:

Tourism: Access statistics that provide information about the tourism industry in New Zealand.

Hospitality & Tourism Associations

Accommodation Association New Zealand
Accommodation Association New Zealand is dedicated to serve and protect the interests of the commercial accommodation sector within the broader tourism industry.
Hospitality New Zealand
Hospitality New Zealand is the leading voice of hospitality in New Zealand. The organisation promotes the industry, partners with government to prevent restrictive legislation, protects commercial interests and spearheads innovation for a sustainable future.
Tourism Industry Aotearoa
Tourism Industry Aotearoa (TIA) is the only independent association that represents all sectors of New Zealand's large and diverse tourism industry. Access resources, tools, news and much more.
UN World Tourism Organization
The World Tourism Organization (UN Tourism) is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. As the leading international organization in the field of tourism, UN Tourism promotes tourism as a driver of economic growth, inclusive development and environmental sustainability and offers leadership and support to the sector in advancing knowledge and tourism policies worldwide.
World Travel & Tourism Council
The World Travel & Tourism Council's mission is to maximise the inclusive and sustainable growth potential of the travel and tourism sector. This is achieved by partnering with governments, destinations, communities, and other stakeholders to drive economic development, create jobs, reduce poverty, security, and understanding in our world.

These World Travel & Tourism Council webpages are particularly useful for Travel and Tourism students:

Economic Impact Reports: Access reports on the economic and employment impact of travel and tourism for 185 countries/economies and 25 geographic or economic regions in the world.
Insights and Publications: Access research on a variety of topics relevant to the travel and tourism sector.

Useful websites

Center for Responsible Travel
Responsible Travel aims to minimise tourism’s negative impacts on the environment and maximise the positive contributions tourism can make to local communities. The organisation works with businesses, destinations, and communities to provide analysis and develop innovative, sustainable solutions.

This Center for Responsible Travel webpage is particularly useful for Travel and Tourism students:

Resources: Access reports, maps, recordings and much more on the topics of climate change, biodiversity and cultural heritage, overtourism, the wealth gap and responsible travel.

Figure.nz
Figure.nz provides New Zealand focused figures, graphs and data on a variety of topics.
Great South
Great South is committed to creating opportunities for Southland in the areas of economic and business development, tourism and events. Access resources and publications on the development of Southland.
HTrends
HTrends offers articles on hospitality industry trends, research and market reports and regional information for the Asia-Pacific region.
newzealand.com
Newzealand.com is the official tourism website for New Zealand. It features information that is relevant to travellers who are thinking about and actively planning a visit to New Zealand.
New Zealand Tourism Guide
New Zealand Tourism Guide provides comprehensive information including accommodation, attractions, tours, transport, maps, travel competitions, bookings and more.
Tourism New Zealand (corporate website)
Tourism New Zealand is the organisation responsible for marketing New Zealand to the world as a tourist destination.

This Tourism New Zealand webpage is particularly useful for Travel and Tourism students:

Tourism Data and Insights: Access tourism data, insights, and consumer research to help New Zealand businesses market effectively to domestic and international visitors.

Māori and Tourism

Indigenous Tourism in Aotearoa: An introductory exploration of Māori tourism and Manaakitanga
This intern report was produced for the United Nations Association of New Zealand. It explores whether "indigenous tourism represents an opportunity for indigenous peoples to gain economic independence and cultural rejuvenation or whether it represents a threat of exploitation and cultural degradation".
New Zealand Māori Tourism
New Zealand Māori Tourism is committed to working with the Māori tourism sector to contribute to our economy, to provide compelling visitor experiences, and to build a strong commercial and cultural leadership.
Te Ara: Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism
Information from Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand on the history of Māori tourism and its current resurgence.

Online magazines and journals

Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights
Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights is an open access social sciences journal focusing upon applied research in tourism. This journal publishes empirically-based research articles and research notes where findings have implications beyond the study context, and are relevant to a broader audience of academy, policy and/or industry practitioners.
Enlightening Tourism
Enlightening Tourism is an international, multi-disciplinary, refereed (under a double-blind peer review), online and fully open access journal, aiming to promote and enhance research in all fields of the tourism industry. The material published in Enlightening Tourism covers all scientific, conceptual and applied disciplines related to the tourism business, including economics, planning and development, management, marketing, human resources, sociology, psychology, geography, information and communication technologies, service quality, finance, and education.
HM: The Business of Accommodation in Asia-Pacific
HM, first published in 1997, is the leading accommodation trade magazine in the Asia-Pacific region. Access articles on a variety of hospitality and tourism topics.
Hospitality Business magazine
Hospitality Business is New Zealand’s independent source of news, insight, business advice and opinion for the hospitality and liquor sectors.
Hotel Management
Hotel Management has been the hospitality industry’s magazine of record for more than 140 years. Today, it covers hotel investment, development, operations, design, technology, brand strategies and the sharing economy for the new generation of hotel owner, developer, operator, broker and financier.
Journal of Hotel and Business Management
Journal of Hotel and Business Management is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal that furnishes the most up-to-date information for professionals involved in hospitality industry to meet the current and future challenges and demands in this dynamic industry.
Research in Hospitality Management
Research in Hospitality Management (RHM) is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing research articles that make an original contribution to the understanding of hospitality and to the theory and practice of international hospitality management.
Tourism and Hospitality
Tourism and Hospitality is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that serves as a forum for publishing scholarly papers that advance the broad fields of tourism and hospitality.
Tourism and Hospitality Management
Tourism and Hospitality Management is an international, multidisciplinary, open access journal, aiming to promote and enhance research in all fields of the tourism and hospitality industry. It publishes double-blind reviewed papers and encourages an interchange between tourism and hospitality researchers, educators and managers.
Travel Industry Wire
Travel Industry Wire offers articles on travel including environmental issues, regional news, trends, technology and much more.
Travel Weekly
Travel Weekly delivers all the late-breaking news, analysis and research that travel professionals need to succeed, including in-depth coverage of every business sector, including airline, car rental, cruise, destination, hotel and tour operator as well as technology, economic and governmental issues.