About Tourleader New Zealand
Who we are, where we live, what we do - the Tourleader New Zealand team!
The team
There’s no corporate ownership behind our website, we are simply old backpacker travellers who moved to New Zealand in 2006 because this is where we wanted to live and set up our little tourism business (a B&B and tours in Whangarei). We do what we love most, writing about travelling and what makes New Zealand so special, producing reliable travel information on the web and ebooks: Tourleader New Zealand! Also all the photos on the website were taken by us.
Wendy from England has always been a passionate traveller. After travelling extensively in South America for 10 months, New Zealand for a total of 14 months and Australia for 5 months, she went to work for a New Zealand company as an eco tour leader based in India for two years. She was her best guiding travellers through the public transport system (or on camels) and chaos of India. Totally in love with New Zealand, now living in the land of her dreams, passionate for all details in plant, animal life, Maori culture and what is uniquely New Zealand. Her artistic passion is flax weaving, which she also teaches (also see 'AllFlax' in Facebook for more).
Urbi is from Switzerland, has a master's degree in business administration/economics, spent over 2 years backpacking through 25 countries (meeting Wendy in Bolivia in 1995) and has travelled many others since. Now fascinated by Maori culture he loves to live in a part of Polynesia. He takes care of web design, documentation, presentations and research - hopefully always with Swiss precision. He is also a stock photographer, see his own NZ stock photo website. He also wrote a Spanish course for beginners and travellers.
Data protection
We use cookies exclusively for the operation of the web software (Contao from Germany), or if third-party systems such as our e-shopping cart (e-junkie), Google Analytics (anonymous) or Google Adsense (advertising) generate them for their own use - we do not receive any individual data our user identification.
We do not collect email addresses and do not run newsletters, but if someone orders an ebook via PayPal and e-junkie we will have access to the order address. However, we do not use and store those and do not share them with anyone.
Our goal is first and foremost to make our know-how about New Zealand widely available to other travellers, but the small fees generated through advertising and selling ebooks are of course a welcome side effect.
Many thanks to our readers!
Urbi & Wendy
