Category Archives: Social Media

We are thrilled to announce our selection as a 2024 Culture New Zealand Award winner, a prestigious accolade that highlights companies with an unwavering commitment to creating an exceptional workplace environment. This recognition showcases our team's dedication to fostering collaboration, nurturing creativity, and prioritising people at every level. 

Organised by Hyer, the Culture New Zealand Awards set an incredibly high standard, evaluating over 5,000 companies and interviewing more than 20,000 employees to identify the top 100 organisations exemplifying workplace excellence and values-driven leadership. 

The benefits of this recognition extend far beyond our Tomahawk internal team. A motivated and cohesive team ensures that the tourism businesses we partner with receive...

Gone are the days of "Googling it." For Gen Z, recommendations and answers about products, services and destinations are increasingly found by scrolling on TikTok and Instagram.  

A staggering 97.5% of Gen Z cite social media as their primary source of shopping ideas, according to Persuasion Nation. Studies by SOCi show 67% of Gen Z have used Instagram and 62% have used TikTok to find local businesses, however the data doesn’t show that they are using it to replace Google, most users search across multiple platforms. 

A study by Adobe found the following: 

• Nearly 1 in 10 Gen Zers said they were more likely to rely on TikTok than Google as a Search Engine. 
• 41% of consumers have used TikTok as a Search Engine.  
• 64% of Gen Z respondents have used TikTok as a Search...

In 2023, AI was the talk of the town…or more accurately, the talk of the whole world!

Last year, AI stirred up plenty of excitement and conversations about how this new revolutionary technology can help businesses, research, medicine, education and industries. This was coupled with plenty of questions and concerns around safety, privacy and whether it will replace jobs.

Now in 2024, many have learnt a bit more about AI’s benefits and most have played with AI tools like ChatGPT and new AI platforms are being developed at lightning speed.

As this e-book debuts, AI's dynamism becomes evident with new use cases, new platforms, and new concerns emerging daily making any static resource about AI potentially obsolete within days. So much so that we’ve written this guide multiple...

LinkedIn is an important platform for networking and building business to business relationships, and for recruitment. For the tourism industry there is an active community of tourism professionals, business owners, managers and related government organisations. 

We recommend a strong presence on LinkedIn for both your personal profile and your company page to foster your trade relationships and to build awareness of your team, products & services and brand.

LinkedIn Profile Page

Profile Picture 

• Recommended pixel size: 400 x 400 pixels
• Supported file types: JPG and PNG

Cover Picture

• Pixel size: 1584 x 396 pixels
• Aspect ratio: 4:1
• Maximum file size: 8MB 
• Supported file types: JPG and PNG 

Note that your LinkedIn cover picture will display...

YouTube as a marketing tool for tourism businesses is a natural platform to attract potential customers with 62% of consumers using YouTube for travel inspiration, it's a goldmine for reaching your target audience! Not only that, it's the 2nd most popular social media channel globally behind Facebook.

From having your own channel for creating video content, to harnessing the advertising opportunities, it can be a strong strategy for driving brand awareness and website traffic.

For your convenience we have provided the YouTube recommended image sizes for your profile, feed and ads. 

YouTube Channel Page

YouTube Channel Profile Picture 

• Recommended pixel size: 800 x 800 pixels
• Aspect ratio: 1:1 
• YouTube will automatically resize your profile image to be...

If you've read about the 5 stages of travel, you will know that most travellers will progress through 5 stages in their journey from dreaming about travel through to sharing their travel experiences:

1. Dreaming
2. Planning/Researching
3. Booking
4. Experiencing
5. Sharing

82% of people’s time is spent within the researching stage!

Within the 5 stages of travel, the planning/researching stage is where CMO of Uberflip Randy Frisch says people spend the most time trying to find out about:

• the location they are looking to visit
• what to do while they’re there
• how they will get around
• where they will stay
• what the must do’s are, and
• what are other people saying about the activity, accommodation, or transport options

With the majority of this time spent...