Trumpeting a new era in communications

Kia ora koutou. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Te Mura o te Ahi, the Voice of Maori Tourism in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This is a publication born of a need - a need to inform the wider tourism industry of a range of exciting developments within Maori tourism. A need to keep operators at the flaxroots informed of important trends and advances within their sector. A need to provide an on-going information tool for Maori tourism. And a need to carry a message about New Zealand’s very special people, their services and products, into the international arena.

Waitakere’s Rewi Spraggon...
beckoning a new era for
Maori tourism

Te Mura o te Ahi will be published every two months and will be distributed far and wide within the realm of Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond, to the four corners of the world from which this country draws its experience-seekers, its adventurers and its enlightened interactive visitors.

Apart from this hard copy, each edition will be available on the soon-to-be-launched Poutama Maori Business Trust tourism website www.indigenousnewzealand.com.

From a personal perspective, it is of immense satisfaction that a project first mooted more than 18 months ago has now become a reality. I commend this new publication to you and invite you to pass on your knowledge of its presence to your colleagues in the wider tourism, education, entertainment and political sectors.

I trust that you will enjoy your journey through Te Mura o te Ahi, the first edition, and all those that will follow it. I thank you for taking this journey with us.

Chris Birt, Editor