Hi Paul, Sorry, that will teach me to read more thoroughly before hitting reply.
> http://www.newzealand.com/travel/sights-activities/events-calendar/new-zealand-events-calendar-home.cfm > http://www.aatravel.co.nz/what-to-see-newzealand/events.php > http://www.fourcorners.co..nz/new-zealand/events/ AA Travel used to run their own events calendar at considerable expense (it's not as easy as it looks!). They now take a feed from Eventfinder (see the logo on the link you posted above). We were in advanced talks with Tourism NZ to provide the same to them back in 2006. See article by Reuben Schwarz from September 11, 2006 (http://www.firstsearch.co.nz/not-the-brightest.html ): > Mr Turner says Eventfinder was negotiating a deal to supply event > information to Tourism New Zealand's website but that this fell > apart the day after he met with the Culture and Heritage Ministry > last month. > > Tourism New Zealand spokeswoman Cas Carter says the agency had known > of the ministry's project since the beginning, and backed out simply > because it needed more time to choose a supplier I was involved in the meetings with Tourism NZ, they were extremely excited at the prospect of using a feed from Eventfinder and reducing the workload on their content team. Then they were told by the Ministry they had to take a feed from NZLive instead, which they still haven't done. Right now NewZealand.com has 150 events listed on their calendar. Eventfinder has 1,797 which would hugely improve the economy as a whole, as you mention. We've offered to give them a full events feed (as we do with NZ Herald, Yahoo!Xtra, Stuff, MSN and AA) at no charge, but the Ministry refuses. Yes - I'm far from impartial, but I don't think we're being unreasonable. Kind regards, James McGlinn __________________________________ CTO Eventfinder Limited Suite 106, Heards Building 2 Ruskin Street, Parnell, Auckland 1052 Phone: +649 365 2342 Mobile: +6421 633 234 [email protected] | www.eventfinder.co.nz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
