Tourism New Zealand has re-launched its travel trade website, which had Indian travel agents holding the number of highest account owners.

As it prepares to receive travellers from around the world after a pandemic-enforced gap of two years, New Zealand’s tourist board, Tourism New Zealand has re-launched its travel trade website.

The board says that its new website will provide an extensive one-stop-shop for online training and inspirational content, along with all the sales tools and resources.

The updated design and layout are more intuitive and user friendly for the agents, it says. The website content is dedicated to informing them about New Zealand tourism product news, travel industry events and offering training opportunities.

Tourism New Zealand says Indian travel trade was found committed to destination New Zealand. When the website was re-launched in March, there was an overall increase in engagement by Indian travel agents.

Having owned many new 100 pc pure New Zealand Specialist Programme (NZSP) accounts compared to the rest of the markets in the world, India along with Japan had the highest number of agents logging into (NZSP) to complete their modules.

“India is an important market for Tourism New Zealand and Indian travel agents play an integral role in our initiatives. Our new travel trade website is aimed at equipping our travel trade community with tools to engage their customers more creatively. Content available includes an extensive library of digital resources including all training webinars created over the past two years.” says Venessa Chen, Regional Marketing Manager-Asia, Tourism New Zealand.

The new website has been updated and developed to have simplified functionality with contents grouped in four different sections. The four different sections include Training & Inspiration; Tools & Resources; News; and Events.

This website is also the go-to place for the travel agent education program NZSP, through which travel agents can complete the learning modules to earn Bronze, Silver, and Gold NZSP travel seller status.

Regular users will have the privilege to be able to access the website as usual and any updated or changed links will redirect to the website’s new homepage.