WELCOME to The MĀORI VISITORS PORTAL ROTORUA's ALL REGIONAL MARAE STAY, MĀORI SERVICES DIRECTORY & MĀORI INITIATED SERVICES web portal ...A BRAND NEW website. To help support Overseas Visitors and Local Visitors look for information on Māori activites in the Bay of Plenty, Northland, and regions in NZ's wider community.

This website is a place where visitors and service providers can come and have a look or advertise their Māori-initiated Services and Events in one location.

Come view the local culture and festivities. A place where visitors can find information about local Māori Events and Māori-initiated Services, Tours, Restaurants, Food, Fine Wine and Dining. This is a place where you can find information about Marae Stays, Marae tours, Exclusive tour guides, and of course everyones favourite the succulent Hangi the traditional Māori food prepared underground by steaming or using the geo-thermal activity in the region.

The local tangata whenua TE ARAWA of ROTORUA will be your hosts during NZ's BIGGEST RUGBY EVENT in WORLD RUGBY to be held in ROTORUA. You can be sure of a high-standard of hospitality we here in TE ARAWA call Manaakitanga.

MANAAKITANGA is about showing your guests a good time and making sure when they leave they are wanting to return and enjoy it in their own time.

So come and enjoy the food, the adventures, the lakes, the fishing, the hunting, the walks, the mountains, the mountain biking and of course the wonderful hospitality of the people of TE ARAWA during your stay in ROTORUA for New Zealand's biggest rugby event the WORLD RUGBY CUP EVENT 2011.

For those VISITORS of you who want to travel outside the regions with a minimum of 2 hours drive from ROTORUA you could be on a Marae in the Te Urewera of Tuhoe, or the lush bush with crystal blue coastal water areas of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui a divers paradise or 2 hours flight to other regions.