Tourism New Zealand launches agent training videos
Tourism New Zealand has launched a series of training videos for UK travel consultants.
There are five short videos, each addressing a key selling theme and answering questions often asked by agents.
Themes include overcoming barriers to travel, landscapes and wildlife, self-drive holidays, and flying domestically in New Zealand.
The tourist office said the 3-5 minute videos were designed for time-pressed agents who want to pick up the basics of selling the destination.
Marc Mulcahy, trade development consultant UK & Ireland for Tourism New Zealand, said: "We hope each three minute video will help travel consultants become more confident about creating holidays to New Zealand. We want to give them the best possible toolkit to help them sell NZ like an expert.
"This comes a year after the relaunch of the 100% Pure New Zealand Specialist Programme. In that time we have seen a 92% increase in registrations for the programme and we now have over 650 certified New Zealand specialists across the UK. These new videos help strengthen our assets package along with showing our ongoing commitment to the trade."
Click here to see the videos.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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