NZlive.com connects New Zealand to the world

The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage launched NZlive.com, according to New Zealand’s Scoop News. This rich site promotes many New Zealand cultural and current events.

Travellers to New Zealand can browse 1,036 events: live events (428), exhibitions and screenings (338), festivals (176), sport (76), recreation (78), heritage (110), conference (18), maori culture (66), pacific cultures (16), and asian cultures (14). 114 links connect the visitor to sites such as the Otago Festival of the Arts, the Dunedin Fringe Festival, and the Wheel Blacks (wheelchair rugby championships).

The site also presents NZ culture facts (eg “Maori became an official language of New Zealand on 01 August 1987), live news and the visitors’ most popular event tags.

Rule 15 “The Rule of Supporting Businesses”, in the book ‘The 25 Immutable Rules of Successful Tourism’ by Roger A. Brooks and Maury Forman, shows how ‘Movie credits tell the real story.’ Brooks writes “In successful tourism, there is never only one business holding up the entire industry.” The New Zealand government has produced and directed one “great movie”. The true success of the site is realized by the large supporting cast of New Zealand’s cultural groups.

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