December 2007: HOSTING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CULTURE & YOUTH

Indigenous Trails has secured the exclusive hosting rights for a General Assembly to be held in Tauranga Moana in late November 2009. This week long conference will have Culture and Youth as the main topic of discussion and the attendees will be made up of delegates representing 34 countries around the world.


Since the early days, Indigenous Trails has a continuous focus on the quadruple bottom line concept – creating economic, social, environmental AND cultural benefits through business. All this combined with a hands-on approach to a number of volunteer youth exchange programmes, makes Indigenous Trails the ideal partner to host this 2009 General Assembly. For more information, please contact us.

November 2007: CRUISE SHIP DAY TOURS A SUCCESS!

Indigenous Trails launched its new Cruise Ship Day Tours of Tauranga and Rotorua for the 2007 - 2008 Cruise Ship season on the 6th November 2007 with immediate success. Cruise passengers wanting to experience Cultural Interaction, Nature, Off the beaten track Trails and Educational Tours have been treated with gracious hospitality (manaakitanga) and learned the importance of Maori traditions and custom. Furthermore, they are invited to participate in an Environmental Activity re-generating a native rain forest area through a tree-planting exercise which they then get to name and tag.

October 2007: NEW ADDITION TO INDIGENOUS TRAILS

On Thursday, 4 October 2007, a brand new addition to Indigenous Trails was born at Kiwi Encounter, the unique Kiwi conservation centre at Rainbow Springs Nature Park in Rotorua. Kiwi Pango hatched between 10.30-11.00 weighing 343.1 grams. This Kiwi chick is the offspring from Waiaraku (mother) and Taiahau (father) of Ohope and we are happy to be this little one's adoptive parents.