Through the Destination Partner Programme, you can join a strong, collaborative network of businesses and promote your business worldwide.
Join a strong, collaborative network of businesses
- We aim to create a strong community of businesses that provides space for collaboration and business opportunities through various local forums and workshops.
- Put your business in front of the right customers with a year-round online presence and relevant media profiling opportunities as they arise.
- Provide input into plans for Nelson Tasman’s visitor sector strategies and align your activity with regional activity when/where it works.
- Through our extensive network of domestic and international contacts selling and visiting the region, we can help put you in front of the right people.
- Promote your business on the world stage with a presence at international trade shows. Business partners are placed at the forefront of our business interactions, prioritising your business whenever possible.
Join the partnership
Sign up to our new Destination Partner Programme – a fresh take on the Visitor Sector Promotions Programme.
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Destination Partner Programme
Terms & Conditions 2024/25
By partnering with the Nelson Regional Development Agency your business can access a range of benefits through Nelson Regional Development Agency channels, activity, and staff. These will help increase your exposure and reach, as well as access insight, knowledge, and support.
Nelson Regional Development Agency supports operators seeking business access to the visitor, meetings, conference, and incentives markets with a range of activities designed to attract visitation and conference groups to the Nelson Tasman region.
Nelson Regional Development Agency will only approve a partnership with operators based in the Nelson Tasman region undertaking business activities directly involved in the visitor, conference, and incentive industries. Nelson Regional Development Agency offers a range of partnership opportunities, each with unique benefits and levels of participation.
Terms of Participation:
i. Destination Programme Partners will be required to complete a CRM onboarding process in order to feature on the nelsontasman.nz website. This will allow partners to receive leads for visitors and business events. Maintaining this presence will be the partner's responsibility. Nelson Regional Development Agency reserves the right to edit or remove a particular website listing if the information is incorrect, misleading, or inappropriate or if there is a dispute or a number of material customer complaints about the listed product or service. Refer to the Partner Listing document for further information. Any assistance needed will be provided.
ii. All applicants are required to demonstrate professional affiliations and accreditations in their field of business and expertise, including but not limited to health & safety, sustainability and Manaakitanga commitments.
iii. All applicants may supply a professional image gallery with unencumbered ownership rights by the Operator.
iv. Any company completing an application is referred to in the terms and conditions document as “the operator”. Nelson Regional Development Agency reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these Terms at any time.
You agree to the following terms and conditions by completing the Service Agreement Application. Please review carefully before completing.
1. Application
Nelson Regional Development Agency reserves the right to decline your application. Some applications may be turned down because of quality concerns relating to the competence of an operator to satisfactorily deliver services to the visitor, conference and incentive sector, past problems relating to payment or disputes, or the scope of services that Nelson Regional Development Agency wishes to promote.
Partnership fees are payable within one month of the joining date unless agreed otherwise. Unpaid fees will result in partnership being deactivated inclusive of all benefits within 30 days.
The partnership period is 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025.
2. Administration
i. Website listings will not be featured at relevant partnership level until payment is received in full.
ii. Changes in product, price, service, ownership, bank account or contact details including email addresses is to be advised to NRDA so that this can be maintained in your listing.
iii. Should the operator terminate prior to the agreed period of service, no refund will be issued.
iv. Termination of fees are not refundable or transferable to a future date but can be transferred to a new owner if the business changes ownership within the contract period.
v. The operator agrees to pay all costs associated with debt collecting applicable to non-payment of advertising or any other Nelson Regional Development Agency invoicing.
vi. The operator and any agents or contractors acting for the operator must be fully compliant with all applicable licenses, permits, approvals, New Zealand laws and regulations in relation to the operation of the business.
vii. In the event that an operator is found to be in breach of any New Zealand laws or regulations or fails in the sole opinion of Nelson Regional Development Agency to supply the service to an acceptable standard, Nelson Regional Development Agency reserves the right to terminate the service agreement by written notice with immediate effect.
viii. Nelson Regional Development Agency is authorised by the operator to promote the business via database marketing – proactively providing your contact details to third parties (for example, Tourism New Zealand, travel wholesalers, etc.).
ix. In accepting Nelson Regional Development Agency’s terms and conditions, the operator gives consent to receive regular electronic communications on advertising opportunities and promotional marketing activity and to receive our newsletter. To unsubscribe at any time, email marketing@nelsontasman.nz.
3. Complaints Policy
i. Nelson Regional Development Agency has an obligation to investigate any material complaint about a service that it has represented.
Nelson Regional Development Agency expects:
ii. Co-operation in the investigation of any complaint from all operators.
iii. If an operator fails to respond or refuses to acknowledge any responsibility for a justified complaint, we reserve the right to remove all advertising and to terminate the agreement by written notice with immediate effect. No refund of the annual service agreement fee will apply in these circumstances.
4. Nelson Regional Development Agency Destination Partner Programme Logo
i. Nelson Regional Development Agency brand guidelines will be adhered to when utilising the
Nelson Regional Development Agency Destination Partner Mark.
5. Service Statement
Nelson Regional Development Agency operates www.nelsontasman.nz with the objective of stimulating economic activity within the Nelson Tasman region. The website exists to provide quality information for all visitors and is important for the region’s visitor industry operators, suppliers, organisations and businesses.
6. Code of Conduct
Nelson Regional Development Agency will always undertake to conduct our business in a professional and respectful manner. Equally, Nelson Regional Development Agency expects its Destination Partners to do likewise.
Should Nelson Regional Development Agency have reasonable cause to believe that an operator has failed to meet these standards, then:
i. Nelson Regional Development Agency shall have the right to suspend the operator’s partnership and conduct an investigation as to whether the operator has met the required standards and
ii. If Nelson Regional Development Agency after conducting such investigation determines that the operator has been in breach of the required standards, Nelson Regional Development Agency will have the right to terminate the service agreement by written notice with immediate effect.
iii. Business information will be kept private and not released to any third-party businesses. However, contact details and business operating information may be shared with potential clients.
In determining whether an operator has met the required standards, Nelson Regional Development Agency may (but without limitation) have regard to any actions by the operator interfering with Nelson Regional Development Agency’s rights and obligations under this agreement, abusing Nelson Regional Development Agency’s employees or failing to act in good faith or reasonably in any conflict resolution process.
7. Termination
Notwithstanding and without prejudice to any rights of termination given to Nelson Regional Development Agency elsewhere in this agreement, in the event of the operator going into liquidation or receivership or committing any breach of its covenants and obligations contained in this agreement and failing to remedy such breach within 14 days of written notice of the breach being given by Nelson Regional Development Agency to the operator, Nelson Regional Development Agency will have the right to terminate this agreement by written notice with immediate effect.
