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Tourism is an economic bedrock. It’s our biggest export earner, employs hundreds of thousands of people, and the industry is the world’s window into our beautiful country.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Tourism

Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis has welcomed new forecasts showing international visitor spending is expected to grow 40 per cent to $14.8 billion a year by 2024.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Tourism

The Government is investing $820,000 in the upkeep of eleven Great Rides of Nga Haerenga, the New Zealand Cycle Trail, Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis announced today.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Tourism

The Government’s education conversation Kōrero Mātauranga is a watershed moment in the history of education for all Māori, Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis says.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Education

Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis today announced the members of the working group that will develop solutions to freedom camping issues. 

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Tourism

I am honoured to be here today to formally close the World Indigenous Tourism Summit, an event which I believe is vital to strengthening indigenous tourism across the globe.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Tourism

Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has congratulated 11 young offenders for achieving The Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award - including the first prisoner in New Zealand to ever achieve the Gold Award.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Corrections

Applications are open for round two of the Tourism Infrastructure Fund, Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis announced today.The Tourism Infrastructure Fund provides up to $25 million per year to co-fund, with councils, the development of visitor-related public infrastructure such as toilets, carparks, freedom camping facilities and sewerage and water works.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Tourism

Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis today announced up to $3.4 million in funding to help improve and extend Waikato’s Hauraki Rail Trail.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Tourism

A Bill to further ensure prison security and the safe and fair management of prisoners has passed its first reading in Parliament today.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Corrections

Nine Māori scholars have been awarded the Ngārimu VC and the 28th (Māori) Battalion tertiary scholarship in recognition of their outstanding achievements, Associate Minister of Education and Ngārimu Board Chair, Kelvin Davis, and the Minister for Youth, Peeni Henare, announced today.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Hon Peeni Henare
  • Education
  • Youth

The first reading of bill recording the history and legacy of Parihaka is an important step in righting past wrongs, Crown Māori/Relations Minster Kelvin Davis says.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

Crown/Māori Relations Minister Kelvin Davis will be holding hui across the country as part of rejuvenating the relationship between the Government and Māori.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

The negative experience of tamariki and rangatahi highlighted in a new report has to change if we are to lift Māori achievement at school, Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis says.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Education

The inaugural national commemoration of the New Zealand Wars has been held in the Bay of Islands, attended by Crown/Māori Relations Minister Kelvin Davis, Associate Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Carmel Sepuloni and Associate Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti
  • Māori Development

Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis has announced the establishment of a working group to develop solutions to freedom camping issues.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Tourism

The Government will be making improvements to information for iwi and hapū on the achievement of their tamariki, Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis says.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Education

Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis today announced up to $2.4 million in funding towards extending and upgrading Tasman’s Great Taste Trail to a multi-day ride. 

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Tourism

The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) will provide up to $4.6 million towards a new cultural tourism experience in Opononi, Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis has announced.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Tourism

International visitor spending reached a record high of $10.6 billion in the year to December 2017, Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis says.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Tourism

The Government’s three-year education work programme prioritises lifting achievement for Māori students, Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis says.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Education

Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis today announced more than $730,000 in funding for safety improvements to two Great Rides of Ngā Haerenga, the New Zealand Cycle Trail, in the Ruapehu and Wellington regions and an extension to the Waikato River trail.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Tourism

Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis has called a meeting with mayors from districts across the North and South Islands to discuss solutions to issues around freedom camping. 

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Tourism

Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis today presented Long Service Awards to staff and congratulated prisoners who have completed trades training at Northland Region Corrections Facility.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Corrections