i-SITE is New Zealand’s network of official visitor information centres. We give you unbiased, friendly information and local expertise, so you can have the best time exploring our beautiful country.
Want to make sure you experience all the must-do activities? The local i-SITE will make sure you don’t miss a thing. Needing to book activities, attractions, accommodation or transport? You can trust our i-SITE team to get you sorted. Just want to chat about the area? We’re happy to help.
Plus, we'll help you with the next steps on your journey, whether it's helping you book things in other parts of the country, or putting you in touch with other i-SITEs in New Zealand.
We just want to help you enjoy the best of New Zealand’s regions and so you can go home full of good memories of good times. And you’ll get all that advice for free, from friendly teams of locals who know their regions inside-out and are passionate about sharing all New Zealand has to offer.
DOC operates a network of visitor centres located nationwide, most of them in our national parks. They are staffed by DOC rangers who have first-hand, in-depth local knowledge about conservation places and activities. Together i-SITE and DOC work hand-in-hand to provide visitors with the very best advice and assistance.
We've been around since 1990, established by what's known today as Tourism New Zealand. The i-SITE brand is proudly managed by Tourism New Zealand, the government entity responsible for attracting high-value visitors to New Zealand. Each year, our network of almost 80 i-SITE Visitor Information Centres welcome about 7.6 million visitors.
Each i-SITE is individually locally-owned and operated, giving each one a unique local flavour, tailor-made for their region.
Every person who works at i-SITE is a travel expert for their own home town, so they can help you to find the sorts of activities, attractions, accommodation and transport that only a local would know. You can be sure that once you have experienced the latest and greatest of what one place has to offer, i-SITE will help connect you with their equally friendly i-SITE colleagues at the next stop on your journey.
So whether you’ve come around the world or down the road you can rely on i-SITE for expert local knowledge and bookings throughout New Zealand.
So do we!
Every i-SITE can give you a real, folding, paper map of your vicinity with the cool places to go marked on it. You can write notes across it and stick it in your pocket. No battery or Wi-Fi required.
What's more, we've turned this i-SITE finder website into a map too. You can pick up one at any i-SITE or DOC Visitor Centre or just download it and print it on a very big piece of paper.
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