Category Archives: Web Design

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...

How To Export Data From Universal Analytics - June 30th Deadline 

Another Google-imposed deadline is looming - July 1st - it's an important deadline from Google that you don't want to miss. You have until the 30th of June to export your data from Universal Analytics (UA) before it's gone for good. 

If you've logged into your UA recently, you've likely seen the countdown ticking away. This isn't just about UA stopping new data collection - that happened last year. This time, UA will become completely inaccessible after July 1st, 2024. That means your historical data will disappear forever unless you act now. 

Here's why keeping your historical web analytics data matters: 

• Measuring Future Performance: Past benchmarks are essential for assessing growth. 
• Context for...

We are thrilled and proud to share our new partnership with Accommodation Australia! They are leading a nation-wide major project across the tourism, travel & hospitality industry to promote and grow the workforce leveraging (and enhancing) the platform we developed for Go with Tourism!

“The GWT team with Tomahawk’s support created something very powerful for the tourism and hospitality industry,” says Dame Kerry Prendergast Tourism Industry NZ Trust Chair. “We are very pleased to see the valuable work of Go With Tourism being leveraged by our friends in Australia.”

Tomahawk has been engaged to develop the platform for the Australian market to allow employers, prospective workers, students and international visitors to connect to education, employment and other vital...

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...

Digital marketing is an ever-evolving part of promoting your tourism business. With new tools and technologies being developed constantly it's vital to keep on top of the latest strategies available to you. That's why we continue to provide a wealth of content in the form of eBooks, articles, and webinars to assist with your learning journey!

Our Tourism Tech Talks series in 2023 delivered 5 digital marketing webinars with 5 strategies shared by subject experts in each. These 25 strategies are summarised below covering: Something New, Something Reliable, Something Underrated, Something DIY, and Something Trending. The five key digital marketing topics are:

• Social Media Marketing for Tourism
• Google Strategies for Tourism
• Brand, Design & Storytelling
• Technology &...