Category Archives: Social Media

Instagram is widely used by tourism businesses to feature visual content (both images and short-form video) as a key social media marketing platform. It's also an effective channel for paid ad strategies to target your specified audiences. 

Given the focus on visual media for this platform it is important to know the best image & video sizes and orientations for your posts to stand out, particularly on mobile format, and avoid images displaying cropped in either your feed or profile page.

Bookmark this page to refer back to or click on the image below to save it on your desktop. Keep reading for full details on all the different image options and sizes in more detail! 

We've updated the recommended sizes below for 2025!

Instagram Feed

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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...

Tomahawk is excited to announce that our founders and company directors are relocating to California. The move comes at a pivotal time, aligning with personal family considerations while also offering exciting new opportunities for Tomahawk to further connect with key markets and ensuring they are better positioned to support customers and capitalise on growth. 

"We're thrilled to be taking this big step change," says Gina Paladini. "Relocating to the US allows us to be closer to some of our biggest tourism markets, and it's an exciting chapter both for us and for Tomahawk as we continue to explore expanding our global customer base." 

Paladini and Hayson believe the timing of the move couldn't be better, particularly with the strong leadership of General Manager Renee...

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...