New Zealand - Enhancing Customer Experiences

So what’s so special?

In 2018, New Zealand saw its highest number of tourists ever with over 3.82 million people visiting. New Zealand offers a “clean, green” adventure playground. It also has the perfect weather this time of year for adventure tour thrill-seekers from the north.

Sure, guests can capture photos and videos with their phones. But most importantly, there are some experiences and views that they can’t capture without your help. We asked around the office and came up with five of our favourite destinations on the North Island – including adventures like rafting down wild rapids, ziplining across treetops, and rolling down a grass maze in a giant inflatable ball (more on that later).

Glowworms. Bottomless caves. Ziplines. Did we mention glowworms? New Zealand offers an experience unlike any other. You can zipline through dark caves surrounded by glowworms. You can also find places to climb through underground waterfalls and explore the depths of breathtaking caves. That would be enough to make any tour awesome. But there’s always a way to make it more amazing. In dark conditions, you can play around with exposure settings on your camera and capture a great light painting photograph!

Heading east towards the Tongariro National Park, you’ll find some great opportunities to do white-water rafting. Certain tour operators offer different grades of rafting tours down the river. Some of them are even great for rafters as young as three years old! As guests go down the river, they might even get a chance to see one of the rarest birds in New Zealand’s – the Blue Duck. The guides have the ability to capture some amazing customer experiences, taking advantage of the thrilling moment and fantastic scenery down the river.

Besides ziplines, Caves, Rafting, is there anything else?

Skydiving is exhilarating no matter where you jump. However, New Zealand’s unique scenery offers something extra. Guests can admire sweeping views of mountains and lakes. Which makes it the perfect time for outside cameramen to capture awesome shots that you will not find anywhere else. With new gear coming out so fast, guests could even have a 360-video of the whole experience!

If we head north, we are able to have a different kind of river experience, Jetboats. Jetboat tours are fast, and we don’t mean that guests have a short experience, jetboats can reach high speed on the water. Guests can easily find tours ranging from one to four hours. This gives guests time to discover New Zealand’s rich history and scenery. With the speed and the dream-like landscape, photographers have a perfect situation to capture the faces of guests as they’re whisked down the river.

This takes back to the beginning of this post. We didn’t forget the giant inflatable ball. That experience is rolling down a hill. At PicThrive, we know that photos and videos are the best way to capture an adventure tour experience. This is one of those cases where words can’t even come close. Guests climb inside a nine-foot round inflatable ball and roll down one of four tracks. You can take a lazy roll down the sidewinder track. Or challenge your friends on the duelling twin tracks.

This is what it looks like!