New Zealand School of Tourism

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The New Zealand School of Tourism (NZST) is a private tertiary education provider specialising in travel and tourism training. It was founded in 1985 as Travel Careers & Training in Wellington and expanded to become New Zealand's largest private institution in its sector. It offers certificate and diploma programmes in areas such as tourism management, airline cabin crew training, and hotel operations.

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History

New Zealand School of Tourism was founded in 1985 as Travel Careers & Training in Wellington with its first campus. [1] The school opened a second campus in Auckland a few years later and, in 2006, it acquired the Sir George Seymour National College of Airline, Travel and Tourism bringing the total to seven campuses. [1] It adopted the New Zealand School of Tourism name following the acquisition to unify branding and is now New Zealand's largest private education provider focused on training programmes for the travel and tourism industry.

NZST opened a campus in Dunedin in 2017. [2] In 2019, a couch caught on fire at the campus requiring firefighters to rescue a person from the building's roof and three people being treated for smoke inhalation. [3] The campus was later closed in 2022. [4] In 2022, the school disclosed that it was seeing a 25 per cent increase in enrolments for 2023. [5]

Campuses

As of 2020, the New Zealand School of Tourism had seven campuses throughout the country with 1560 full-time students. [6] [7] Following the closure of campuses in Dunedin and Rotorua (in 2022), [4] the school now lists five campuses located in the Auckland CBD, Auckland Airport, Hamilton, Wellington, and Christchurch. [8] The Auckland Airport is its flagship campus and has a Boeing 747 service trainer, a full Boeing 737 aircraft cabin trainer, and an A320 cabin trainer. [9] It is a subsidiary of UP Education, which also operates Yoobee Colleges, Elite School of Beauty and Spa, Cut Above Academy and Healthcare Academy of New Zealand. [10] [11]

References

  1. 1 2 "New Zealand School of Tourism | Courses, Rankings, Expenses, Scholarships & Intakes". IDP. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Hospitality Business - March 2017". Issuu. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  3. ↑ "Person rescued from burning building in Dunedin". www.stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  4. 1 2 Ellis, Fiona (18 November 2022). "'Incredibly disappointing': Dunedin campus to close". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  5. ↑ "Kiwi parents starting to see tourism as 'viable career'". NZ Herald. 19 November 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  6. ↑ "Tourism school enrolments rise despite Covid-19 effects on industry". RNZ. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  7. ↑ "Fears tourism training cuts will worsen staffing shortages". www.stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  8. ↑ "Our Campuses". NZST. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  9. ↑ "New Zealand School of Tourism | Courses, Rankings, Expenses, Scholarships & Intakes". www.idp.com. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  10. ↑ "Organisations >> NZQA". New Zealand Qualifications Authority. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Crace, Anton (28 June 2019). "NZ: UP Education forms after ACG split". The PIE News. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
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