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New Zealanders are decision-makers for tourists

wammo — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:55:54 +0000

Dr Kevin Moore from Lincoln University says New Zealanders resident overseas, and past visitors to New Zealand, are active in broadly shaping tourists’ itineraries within New Zealand.

A report called, “Yield-Relevant Tourist Decision-Making”, makes clear that New Zealanders have a “real role” in not only encouraging people to come to New Zealand but also in providing everything from general advice about where to go and what to do, through to making the bookings and even travelling with visitors while they are here. The research also notes the increasing significance of social networking evident in tourism.

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Russell Brown: Bring in the Swine

wammo — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:47:33 +0000

It’s all swine all of the time. So how have the media treated the hottest story since the economy? Has the coverage been hyped or is it just right? With cases now confirmed in New Zealand has the Government response been adequate? So many questions but Russell has the er… bacon. Russell Brown is chief blogger at publicaddress.net.

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Alex Hedley: Kiwis in Egypt

wammo — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:30:52 +0000

Its call sign was Fernleaf Cairo, and between 1939 and 1946, around 76,000 Kiwis of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force passed through Maadi Camp. Around 17 kilometres south of Cairo, the camp appeared almost overnight, as this country’s permanent overseas base during World War Two. Alex Hedley travelled there and his findings along with memories from Returned Servicemen, photos and letters are contained within Fernleaf Cairo.

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Te Radar: Keep your whites clean

wammo — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:37:54 +0000

Te Radar muses from the Gisborne departure lounge about the political situation in Fiji. In particular Bainimarama’s white dress military uniform that must be awfully difficult to keep clean at state dinners. Also a chap who planned to row around Antarctica has given up before he reached Stewart Island. Plus we discuss the merits of Lego.

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NZ Embarrassed at UN Climate Talks

wammo — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:52:16 +0000

The New Zealand delegation at UN climate talks in Bonn is embarrassing the country by outing us as laggards according to Greenpeace New Zealand’s Political Adviser in Bonn, Geoff Keey.

Unlike all other countries at the talks, apart from Russia and the Ukraine, New Zealand is refusing to put forward a proposed national emission reduction target. Geoff says New Zealand’s proposed stabilisation goal was no more than 450ppm. A couple of years ago, that might have seemed reasonable, but the most recent science indicates that 450ppm is way too high, is likely to push the world above two degrees warming, and could trigger catastrophic climate change.

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Paul Brislen: Twit Fight

wammo — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:57:44 +0000

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Tech correspondent Paul Brislen fires some tweet shots over the bow of mainstream media and some of the shallow reporting into twitter and it’s tweeters. Also TVNZ has confirmed it is bringing TIVO to New Zealand so how will this new (old) technology change the way New Zealanders watch the box? Paul Brislen loves technology – find him at his blog

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TheG33kshow.com: Total Tweeters

wammo — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:42:30 +0000

MsBehaviour wraps up the past week’s twitterisation of New Zealand with the arrival of the next messiah @twitchhiker.

MsB talks about the power of the medium, the implications for corporate PR, twitter fatigue, celebrity tweets and news making twats. More including a video of The Twitchiker arriving is over at TheG33kshow.com

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Russel Norman: TVNZ, Investment and Bags

wammo — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:20:09 +0000

The Green Party Co-leader says the Government should not expect a dividend from TVNZ at a time when they are making 90 employees redundant.

Russel is also concerned that Bill English is looking into reviewing and relaxing the criteria for overseas investment into New Zealand, will it mean more competition for housing stock and land ownership? And the Warehouse has announced it is introducing a 10 cent charge for its plastic bags.

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Vincent Heeringa: Missed Opportunity Part 2

wammo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:42:20 +0000

Initiatives to get more people into tertiary education and Pacific Island Community involvement were other missed opportunities at the recently held Jobs Summit. Vincent argues that New Zealand needs a skilled workforce to emerge on the other side of the current recession. John Key’s talk in the Wallstreet Journal about productivity growth has Vincent feeling more positive. Vincent Heeringa is the editorial director at Idealog.

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New Fly My Pretties for 2009

wammo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:22 +0000

Barnaby Weir has today announced a new Fly My Pretties show will tour Christchurch, Dunedin, Auckland and Wellington through May and June 2009. Fly My Pretties is a live multimedia event starring a selection of our finest contemporary musicians, set to a stunning visual backdrop and filmed and recorded live.

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