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September 21, 2010

In This Issue

• Rugby World Cup 2011
• Marie Claire – India
• Winning Formula – Congratulations
• International Update
• Domestic Update
• Trade familiarisations
• C&I Update
• Online Update
• Visitor Activity Statistics
• Sustainability
• Events - October 2010
• Dates for the Diary

Rugby World Cup 2011

We are now counting down from one year to go until the commencement of Rugby World Cup 2011. This is the world’s third largest sporting event. Industry across the board is gearing up to receive an expected 80,000 plus visitors.

Rotorua and Central Park were showcased at the Giant Rugby Ball on Sydney’s Circular Quay this month, by a contingent of Rotorua Tourism and Business representatives, to invited groups from the Australian Tourism and Business sectors, followed by a very successful networking session. Using the leverage of RWC2011 new links for trans-Tasman trade and tourism opportunities have been established.

Rotorua will host one Pool C match, Ireland v Russia, Sunday September 25, and two Pool D matches, Fiji v Namibia, Saturday September 10 and Samoa v Namibia, Wednesday September 14.

Visit www.rugbyworldcup.com for more. 

New Zealand will celebrate its role as host of one of the world’s greatest sports events by staging a nationwide festival promoting real New Zealand to the world. The REAL New Zealand Festival will run from 9 September – 23 October, and will complement the match and team hosting schedule for RWC2011. Several events are already planned for Rotorua with more yet to be added.

To find out more about the REAL New Zealand Festival visit www.realnzfestival.com

Marie Claire – India

Rotorua was chosen by the fashion editors of top fashion magazine, Marie Claire (India) as the perfect location for a 12 page wedding fashion feature. The team from India, were awestruck by the scenic beauty of Rotorua and the variety of locations. They arrived with Polish model, Maria Debicka who was equally captivated by Rotorua’s charm. Locations included Te Puia, Wai-O-Tapu, TreeTops Lodge, and Mt Ngongotaha courtesy of Skyline. A Volcanic Air Safaries float plane was used as a prop for the shoot at Lake Tarawera. The crew were hosted by TNZ and DRTM and stayed at the Novotel Rotorua Lakeside.  Although the shoot was ‘full on’ Fashion Editor, Pearl Shah managed to somehow fit in a treatment at Polynesian Spa and the crew spun some wheels at Quadzone. Many thanks to everyone who helped make this such a success.

Pictured are Pearl Shah – Fashion Editor, Nikhil Dudani – Style Editor, Charudutt Chitrak – Photographer, Daniel Bauer – Hair & Make-up, Maria Debicka – Model, Kimberley Wallace – TNZ Escort and Richard Fulton – Wai-O-Tapu.

Winning Formula – Congratulations

Volcanic Air Safaris has been awarded the Aviation Industry Association of New Zealand

(AIA) PLATINUM SAFETY RECOGNITION AWARD in recognition of 25 years continuous service without accident to self, passengers or crew.

Volcanic Air Safaris of Rotorua were presented with the Award at a Parliamentary function hosted by Hon. Nathan Guy for the Aviation Industry Association of New Zealand on 15th September 2010.

The Platinum Safety Award is only awarded to those operators who have achieved the major milestone of 25 yrs accident free operation.

“It is great to be able to recognise Volcanic Air Safaris for such a major achievement,” says Irene King, CEO of the Aviation Industry Association. “Volcanic Air Safaris are the first company to apply for and be awarded a Platinum award and we are really pleased to be able to make this award at Parliament with the Hon Nathan Guy, Associate Minister of Transport present.”

The Aviation Industry Association Safety Recognition Awards are awarded at the Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum levels, recognising operators and pilots who have achieved 5, 10, 15 or 25  years accident free (respectively), where there has been no injury to pilot, crew or passenger.

Phill Barclay, Managing Director of Volcanic Air Safaris says “the award is a tribute to all the current and past people who have been involved in volcanic Air Safaris for the past 25 years”.

And more

The entire Reesby fleet of coaches including City Ride have achieved qualmark endorsed visitor transport  and enviro silver creditation. These accreditations also include the daily 12.40pm Naked Bus Auckland – Rotorua service via Ngatea, Waihi, Tauranga and Te Puke and the Gisborne, Opotiki, Whakatane, Rotorua service and the Rotorua – Murupara service.

City Ride provides a cheap 30 min service to and from the airport and all inner city tourism venues. These services cater toward the increasing number of independent travellers.

International Update

Australia

August saw DRTM extremely active and Rotorua’s market presence is certainly being felt.

DRTM was represented on the Kirra roadshow which visited 5 Australian centres. Adelaide, Melbourne, Newcastle, Brisbane and Coff Harbour. Over 2000 potential travelers attended the events with a huge interest in Rotorua. There were queues of people lining up to receive Rotorua information and ask questions for there holidays.

DRTM was also represented on the Grand Pacific Roadshow which attended 6 cities – Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Coffs Harbour, Sydney and Brisbane. In total 654 potential travelers visited to learn about New Zealand as a holiday destination.

DRTM also attended a function for key Australian wholesale partners in the giant Rugby ball in Sydney. Approx 60 key travel company staff were in attendance to watch the Tri Nations Fixture.

A big thanks to Joey Rihari who did an excellent job representing Rotorua at the above 3 events.

Marketing Activity

While most Australian Wholesalers report the market now to be ‘as flat as a tack’ Rotorua has some exciting campaign work underway with a major Australian wholesaler.

ANZCRO campaign

DRTM has partnered with Australian wholesaler ANZCRO for a comprehensive marketing campaign in Australia through strategic retail travel agency groups. This campaign is for travel from Early September through to the end of the year and will run till the end of October.

This campaign will focus on heavy promotion across all Flight Centre retail brands and Jetset and Travelworld retail outlets.

Activity Highlights:

• 1 page Rotorua feature in 310,000 Flight Centre Catalogues
• 1 Page Rotorua feature in 100,000 Escape Travel Catalogues
• 1 page Rotorua feature in 30,000 Jetset Catalogues
• 1 page Rotorua feature in 25,000 Travelworld
• Window banners in 700 Flight Centre stores nationally in October
• Window banners in 104 Escape Travel stores nationally in Australia
• Press advertising in weekend papers in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth
• Feature on Escape Travel homepage in October with 360,000 unique visitors per month
• 5 distributions of Rotorua feature to AFTA database of 30,000 travel agents
• Incentive in place for ANZCRO reservation staff
• Incentive in place for Flight Centre staff nationally who sell 3 nights in Rotorua in any one booking.

While the measurable return on the investment in this campaign will be through actual conversions through ANZCRO reservations this campaign is also high value generic advertising for Rotorua targeted straight to the potential traveler creating greater awareness and desire to travel to Rotorua regardless of the booking channel.

VALUE TOURS

In August inserted into the Value Tours new season brochure was a 6 page glossy A4 Rotorua feature. Along with basic Rotorua information and logistics the feature showcased the array of activities and experiences through inspiring imagery and itinerary options. It was inserted into 10,000 brochures.

WOTIF

Wotif in Australia is launching their new online service Wotflight. As part of the launch DRTM has agreed to being part of the launch campaign which will see Rotorua as a feature destination through the launch period. Part of this will involve a holiday giveaway to Rotorua, traffic redirection to a customised rotoruanz.com landing page and database mail outs.

Asia

In Early October DRTM will be represented at Kiwilink Asia in Singapore. The event will see key travel staff from across Asia converge on Singapore for 3 days.

If you have product updates suited to any of the Asian markets please email these updates through to james@rotoruanz.com.  All product updates will form part of an update presentation to knowledgeable attendees wanting the latest news out of the region.

Japan

DRTM recently completed a market visit to Japan visiting 18 Japanese wholesale offices and attending 2 official functions. Our visit was extremely well received. With visitor arrival to New Zealand back in positive territory the mood from Japanese wholesalers was positive as they put the challenges they have faced behind them and move forward. One major Japanese wholesaler reported a 240% increase in business over last year.

As on our visit last year we presented a Rotorua with a wide variety of activity nicely portrayed in Eco-Tourism, Culture and Adventure categories. Weeks previously DRTM had hosted 9 Japanese IBO’s to Rotorua to experience these themes. This has been well received and since our last visit in 2009 some wholesalers have included additional optional nights and activities centered around this theme. It was also encouraging to see as was Rotorua’s ‘Most beautiful City award’ being featured in brochures after informing them last year of this success.

While the visit presented a few challenges Rotorua faces with the Japanese market it also presented some fantastic opportunities. Power Spots (google it) are a bit of a craze in Japan at the moment and Rotorua is seen as possessing the elements to make it an ideal powerspot destination. Some wholesalers expressed interest in marketing power spot itineraries with Rotorua as the major drawcard. This is an opportunity we will pursue. Also encouraging was the number of experimental itineraries that some companies had in the marketplace. While not all will be best sellers it is great to see plenty of creativity in the market.

Famils

We continue to push for as many familiarization visits out of Australia at possible. To date we have now organized in excess of 200 Australian travel Agents and key travel industry staff to visit Rotorua this year. Thank you for your continuing support.

To be able to afford to do this we generally work with key wholesale companies who we essentially partner up with to manage the costs of bringing the staff across.

Australian Wholesale Famil: 4th – 7th September
Flight Centre Sydney: 17th – 19th September
China Semi FIT famil 14th – 16th September

Comments from recent famils

'Definitly Rotorua is a destination I would recommend to anyone going to New Zealand. A 4 night stay is the minimum I would recommend as there is so much to do.' Lyn Haddard,  Skimax

'Although I already had a positive perception of Rotorua it still exceeded my expectations. Rotorua is definitly a destination that I will push as it has something for everybody.' Spencer Marumaru, Stella Wholesale

'I think this famil highlighted the diversity of activities on offer - whether highlighting maori culture, geothermal activity, adventure or pamper Rotorua has something for everything.' Kylie Wapp, ANZCRO

Domestic Update

Domestic Update: For any clarification of any of the information in this section please contact craig@rotoruanz.com

Media Schedule

Domestic advertising of Rotorua has been promoted through the following online and print  publications:

• Banner adverts on websites Adventure magazine, NZ Mountainbiker, Metservice.
• Print adverts promoting to families for school holidays in Auckland through Canvas magazine and Waikato though Your Weekend magazine inserts.

Waikato i-SITEs

Targeting September/October appointments for Rotorua product & city updates prior to World Rowing Championships.

AA Travel Campaign

• Rotorua was featured as a great family destination option for a winter escape on Breakfast TV last month. AA Travel’s Cassie Tibly was interviewed by Paul Henry about their winter weekend getaway campaign – click here to see the interview.

• As part of the Great Kiwi Road Trips campaign, Rotorua will host a ‘Pit Stop Event’ on the 16th October.

• Our Rotorua prize feature in AA Rewards EDM had a good response generating over 5,000 entries. The winners vouchers have been sent and here are here comments after being notified as the winner:
  “Wow! This is absolutely awesome!!!!!! Thank you so much. We are farming and are in need desparately for a holiday - you have made our year!!!! “

• Rotorua themed AA – Go-See-Discover EDM has been sent to AA Travels database of 160,000 targeting New Zealanders with a high propensity to travel & North Island regions for family school holiday activity.

VFR Market & Local Campaign

An excellent response with over 20 operators opting in for this campaign we are confirmed to go ahead. Dates are 1-7th November. Work is now underway on an advertising schedule & promotional materials.

Rotorua What’s On

The new spring edition of Rotorua Whats On is now available & has been distributed throughout the Jasons & i-SITE networks.

C&I Update

C&I Update: For any clarification of any of the information in this section please contact
denise@rotoruanz.com

Desk of the Bureau

Steering Committee
Congratulations to the steering committee members elected, the Platinum members are represented by Jenny Stokes –Agrodome, Lynley Martin – Skyline Skyrides, Pipiana Whiston – Millennium Hotel, Steven Emery – Distinction Hotel. Gold members represented by Jeff Alexander – Event Impressions and Brett Jeffery – Events and Venues and Silver members represented by Ruth Goldsbury from Mitai. The first  meeting date is yet to be scheduled but will be within the next 10 days.

Multi Media Survey
A survey has just been completed which included NZ and Australian PCO and Event organizers. The results are due for review at the end of this week and will be available for viewing within the next two weeks. The survey was to get feedback on the online resources we provide to meetings, events and incentive planning partners. An additional incentive to complete the survey was to offer the chance to win a flip HD video camera.

Convention Activity Survey (CAS)
Rotorua is one of ten participating regions in the NZ Convention Activity Survey (CAS).  Effective July last year the survey was upgraded to provide data on a wider range of C&I events than conferences alone and now also includes meeting/seminars, incentive activities, conference/conventions, trade show/exhibitions and special occasions.  The report for the quarter ending June 2010 is now available and also includes data for the first full year since the survey was upgraded.  Key points specific to Rotorua for year ending 30 June 2010 are: 

• Rotorua has a 6% share of multi-day MICE events held in CAS regions - comparable to Queenstown (also 6% share) and exceeded only by large metropolitan regions (Auckland 36% share, Wellington 22% share and Canterbury 13% share).
• Rotorua has a 7% share of delegates attending multi-day MICE events in CAS regions - comparable to Manawatu (also 7% share) and exceeded only by Auckland 33% share, Wellington 23% share and Canterbury 15% share.
• Rotorua has an 8% share of delegate days spent at multi-day MICE events in CAS regions - again, exceeded only by Auckland 30%, Wellington 20% and Canterbury 19%.

Click here to find out more about the CAS - including access to the four quarterly national reports in the newly upgraded survey.

Australia

Familiarization
 At the end of August, ten Australian PCOs and Event Managers were hosted on a four day familiarization  to Rotorua utilising the direct flights from Sydney. The itinerary began with the Wearable Arts Awards dinner at the Energy Events Centre hosted by the Convention Bureau and Events and Venues. For the duration of the trip clients were shown a wide range of conference and incentive products including accommodation, offsite dinner venues and a selection of activities. At the end of the four days the clients  had a good feel for Rotorua,  our culture, our facilities, our people and as an event destination. Feedback has been incredible with suppliers/operators being rated highly for their products and the PCOs and Event Managers all saying their expectations were exceeded.  Here are just a few comments:

'I think Rotorua is a fantastic conference/incentive destination. There is a lot of choice with regards to accommodation, conference, offsite, restaurant options and the added bonus of gaining a cultural experience as well as some extreme sports activities means that Rotorua is a destination that ticks all the boxes.'

'Rotorua is a well placed and exciting destination with so much to offer conference and incentive guests. New Zealand is so accessible for Australian visitor’s, however I believe the direct flights to Rotorua have put this incredible place on    the map for conference business from Australia.'

'Rotorua is a very unique and fresh conference/incentive destination. You can expect stellar service and hospitality, a great selection of food & beverage options and both onsite /offsite catering. There is a great combination of sporting adventures/team building activities with fantastic venues that have sterling views over countryside. With conference facilities that range from in-house (hotel) meeting rooms to huge state-of-the-art venues, Rotorua has delegate’s interests at heart with the amount of choice at their fingertips.'

Activity
Debbie has been busy attending several networking functions including the Australian Famil club and MEA (Meetings Events Association) cocktail function. Rotorua was also invited to be part of the Autism Spectrum Australia comedy evening, where we put a package up for auction which included return flights for two on the direct. This package caused quiet a stir raising the most money on the night. Debbie represented the destination on the evening at the Focus NZ table.
10th September, Rotorua hosted MICE clients to the Game of two Halves Cocktail function in conjunction with Tourism NZ Rugby Ball at Darling Harbour.

Verbal confirmation has been received for two pieces of business from Australia this month. These are in their final stages of negotiations and will be sent out to the appropriate operators once in writing. The business is for March 2011 and September 2012.
Another piece of business is in its final stages which are a combination of Australia and NZ delegates; this too is coming to Rotorua in early 2011 but is pending a familiarization in early October.

New Zealand

Familiarization
At the time of print last month we had just come off the back of a NZ PCO and Event organizers familiarization. Some of the feedback from those guests:

‘I was highly impressed with Rotorua, I had no idea what it had to offer as a conference and incentive destination and am very excited about holding our annual conference there in 2012.’

‘Now… Absolutely fantastic and I have convinced my clients to secure as our 2011 Nth Island destination.’

‘Great! I think initially people may think, oh Rotorua, been there done that, but I was really impressed with the amount of activities to do, place’s to dine, things to see …. Etc!’

Activity
With only 12 months to go before the Rugby World Cup, we have found ourselves assisting where possible to ensure that clients with special interest large groups are getting all the right information to make their decisions.
 Melissa has also been working in collecting and updating our large database. This is to assist with making contact with the corporate market and for future familiarizations to ensure that the client is getting to meet with the right operators for their business requirements. Part of this ongoing project includes sales calls in Auckland the week of 20th September to the corporate market.

Online Update

Online Update: For any clarification of any of the information in this section please contact
adrian@rotoruanz.com

Google Analytics Workshop

Gina, Craig and Adrian attended this workshop on Wednesday September 1.
Organised by Cherie Robinson (Whakatane District Council) and facilitated by Dale Hartle (Porirua City Council) and Hayden Sanders (Leftfield Interactive Ltd).

Google Analytics (GA) is a FREE service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that the product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. All it takes to get up and running is a snippit of code that you put on every page of your website.

Technical topics covered included:

• Setting up separate profiles for each website for filtering reports
• Goals and interaction
• Segmentation measurements to help report on engagement (via time on site and pageviews) and interation by the number of goals completed

More information at google.com/analytics

RTONZ Tech Wordshop

Adrian and Craig attended this in Auckland on September 2, which followed the e-Tourism conference.

RTONZ brought 3 of the most influential social media organisations together in the one room for one day, specifically to present to RTO's on social media, new technologies and how to get the best out of their channels.

The following is some information and tips for operators.

TripAdvisor - Jim Brody, International Sales Manager - Destination Marketing

1. Make sure you register to use your owners page
2. Trust the collective wisdom of the audience
3. If you think it's fraud then tell us about it
4. Respond, respond, respond!
5. Learn from it, instruct your staff
6. Fix the problem

Google - Fiona Hunt, Head of Industry, Government, Travel & Tourism - Australia & New Zealand

73% of people who booked OFFLINE always researched ONLINE first!
Predicted smartphone usage: 2008: 9% | 2013: 46%

1. OWN YOUR CATEGORY
2. Differentiate yourself - ask a question in copy
3. Be where your target consumers are looking
4. Be seen the way consumers look for content

Facebook - Paul Webster, Facebook New Zealand

In New Zealand there are 1.76 million active users. 60% return daily. 57% female / 43% male
Average user spends 90% of their time on their own wall and has 130 friends.

25 billion pieces of content worldwide shared on Facebook every month.

Keep your messages brief and engaging/eye catching.
Don't send them off site too much. Try to engage them within the site as much as possible.

1. Make it social
2. Make it simple
3. Make it fast
4. Keep it within my experience

Visitor Activity Statistics

New Zealand Tourism Industry Monitor – Sep 2010

(Source:  Covec – Tourism Industry Monitor)
Results from the NZ Tourism Industry Monitor indicate New Zealand tourism businesses expect demand to decrease by 0.2% and profitability to increase by 0.4% for the three months commencing 1 September 2010 over the same period of the previous year.  40% of respondents have a positive outlook of demand increasing over this period, while 25% have a neutral outlook and 35% a negative outlook.  The Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Central Plateau regional outlook for growth in demand is in the range of -2% to +3%. 

International Visitor Arrivals (IVA) to New Zealand – July 2010

(Source:  Statistics NZ – External Migration)
International visitor arrivals to New Zealand for the month of July 2010 were up 3.8% over July 2009.  Arrivals were up from Australia (up 1.7%), China (up 94.2%), Japan (up 73.9%) and Korea (up 15.5%).  There were fewer arrivals from UK (down 19.8%), USA (down 13.1%), Germany (down 0.5%) and Canada (down 4.0%).

New Zealand Regional Tourism Forecast 2010-2016

(Source:  Tourism Strategy Group, Ministry of Economic Development)
Click here to view forecast reports for each region and to download the pivot table for greater drill down of data.

Rotorua Commercial Accommodation Monitor (CAM) – July 2010

(Source:  Statistics NZ – Commercial Accommodation Monitor)

Visitor nights spent in Rotorua commercial accommodation for the month of July 2010 were up 8.2% over July 2009 (versus +0.2% nationally) - domestic visitor nights were up 7.9% (versus -1.0% nationally) and international visitor nights were up 8.6% (versus +2.2% nationally).  For the same period, most sectors of Rotorua commercial accommodation had increased growth in visitor nights - hotel sector (up 10.0%), motels (up 8.1%), holiday parks (up 15.5%) and backpackers (down 5.6%).    

Rotorua Attraction & Activities Monitor – Jul 2010

(Source:  APR Consultants  – Rotorua Attraction & Activities Monitor)
Visits to Rotorua Attraction & Activities Monitor participant businesses for the month of July 2010 were up 8.9% over July 2009 - domestic attraction/activity visits were up 12.1% and international attraction/activity visits were up 5.9%.

Rotorua Regional Tourism Forecast 2010-2016

(Source:  Tourism Strategy Group, Ministry of Economic Development)
Total visitor nights in Rotorua RTO are forecast to rise 1.4% per annum (versus 1.2% national benchmark) from 3.395 million in 2009 to 3.754 million in 2016.  For the same period total visitor expenditure in Rotorua RTO is forecast to increase 3.5% per annum (versus 2.6% national benchmark) from $537 million to $682 million.
Click here to view the Rotorua Regional Tourism Forecast 2010-2016 report.

Upcoming Statistics NZ releases

International Visitor Arrivals to NZ: August 2010 will be released 21 September 2010
Commercial Accommodation Monitor: August 2010 will be released 12 October 2010

Most of the New Zealand tourism monitors can be freely downloaded from tourismresearch.govt.nz

For more information about Rotorua visitor statistics or to subscribe to any of the Rotorua specific tourism monitors please contact Gina on (07) 349 7289 or gina@rotoruaNZ.com

Sustainability

2010 BOP Sustainable Business Network Awards

Extraordinary sustainable businesses make an incredible, positive contribution to New Zealand’s economy, environment and culture every year.  Celebrate the extraordinary businesses that contribute to the sustainability of the Bay of Plenty.

Date:     Thursday 30 September 2010
Time:     6pm till late
Place:    Distinction Hotel, Fenton St, Rotorua
Tickets:  $130 per ticket; $1200 per table of ten
RSVP:   Jo Wills @ bop@sustainable.org.nz

NZ Freedom Camping Forum

The New Zealand Freedom Camping Forum was established three years ago to assist visitors in better understanding the variance in regional freedom camping policies and alleviate freedom camping pressures on local communities. 

Education is the primary tool of the forum, where responsible freedom camping messages are communicated to motorhome/campervan visitors.  The responsible freedom camping message is simply ‘Where can I camp?’ and directs motorhome visitors to consult the camping.org.nz website, local i-SITE, Department of Conservation office, and/or a Holiday Park Association NZ member. 

Motorhome visitors to the Rotorua district are encouraged to plan their visit to the district by first visiting the motorhome visitor specific page of rotoruaNZ.com, which states the local freedom camping policy and gives an overview of motorhome facilities in the district. 

Upon arrival in the district, visitors can collect a motorhome visitor brochure, which has more detailed information and has a map showing the specific location of all motorhome facilities, holiday parks and camping grounds in the district. 

Rotorua businesses wanting to distribute the Rotorua motorhome brochure to visitors can contact Gina for a supply of brochures – phone (07) 349 7289 or email gina@rotoruaNZ.com.

Ecotourism NZ Conference 2010 Rotorua

Co-hosted by Greymouth-based Tai Poutini Polytechnic and Waiariki Institute of Technology, this year’s the Ecotourism NZ conference was held in the North Island for the first time.  Keynote speaker Robert Swan enthralled the attendees with his ‘madness’.  At the age of 21 years old he had never been camping, but set a goal of walking to the South Pole.  Over the next 30 years Robert raised millions of dollars to fund such ‘mad’ missions in an effort to bring public awareness to various environmental issues.  Seven Rotorua attraction and activity businesses (all members of the Rotorua Sustainable Tourism Charter) got to showcase their pursuit of sustainability as the providers of the delegate field trips that made up two half days of the conference program.  The Rotorua Sustainable Tourism Charter was the topic of one of four breakout sessions.  Presented by Eldad Collins (the Charter’s Sustainability Advisor) the breakout session gave an overview of the Charter’s grass roots approach to sustainability that has been collectively developed by the membership.  Co-hosting the Charter session was Charter member, Steve Osborne of Alpin Motel who presented a case study of a successful down-bore heat exchange system which almost eliminates the business’ carbon emissions associated with space and water heating.

Events - October 2010

Rotorua Deepawali Festival

Sat Oct 2, 2010
Rotorua Deepawali Festival is a FREE event and is completely meat-free, smoke-free and alcohol-free. Deepawali which means "row of lights" is an... More info

How Great Thou Art

Sat Oct 9, 2010
After being inundated by calls and requests from around the world Howard Morrison Jnr has humbly taken up the mantle to bring about the birth of a... More info

KSwiss Ekiden Relay

Sat Oct 9, 2010

The KSWISS Rotorua Ekiden Relay will be run around the roads encircling beautiful Lake Rotorua on 9th October 2010. An internationally recognised... More info

Ultimo National Secondary Schools Mountain Bike Relay 2010

Sat Oct 16, 2010
Ultimo National Secondary Schools Mountain Bike Relay 2010. This event is open to all secondary school students throughout New Zealand. Categories:... More info

Whaka 100

Sun Oct 17, 2010
The Big One. 100km of riding over a course that is predominantly single track. There is nothing else like it in New Zealand. Now in its third year... More info

2010 BMX North Island Titles

Sat Oct 23, 2010 - Sun Oct 24, 2010
Rotorua BMX Club is the venue for this year's North Island Titles being held over Labour Weekend with top class racing 23rd and 24th October. This... More info

Kiwibikes Singlespeed World Champs

Sat Oct 23, 2010
1 world...1 day...1 gear... 1 ring to rule them all... for the glory, the tattoo...and the beer... if there is only 1 event you do in 2010 make it... More info

New Zealand Aria 2010

Fri Oct 29, 2010 - Sun Oct 31, 2010
The New Zealand Aria Trust welcomes you to the 64th Festival Weekend of Song to be held in the Rotorua Convention Centre The New Zealand Aria... More info

NZ Kiwis vs PNG

Sat Oct 30, 2010
2010 Rugby League Four-Nations The 2010 Four-Nations is the 2nd installment of the highly successful rugby league competition. With the ongoing... More info

For more information or to check out the latest events, go to rotoruaNZ.com/events

Dates for the diary

Blue = Destination Rotorua Marketing participation

2010

5-7 October, CINZ Conference - Taupo

13-17 October, Kiwilink Asia - Singapore

29 October, MICENET Golf Tournament - Sydney

October and November (TBC), Familiarisations - NZ and Australia

5-7 December, PCO Conference – Hobart

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