Haka Educational Tours

New itinerary now live - New Zealand Ultimate Environmental Sustainability & Conservation Tour 🌿🌏

More of our tours are starting to include hands-on conservation and sustainability experiences. This one brings that together across New Zealand, with opportunities for students to learn through real environments and community-led initiatives.

Explore the full itinerary here - https://hakaeducationaltours.com/nz-ultimate-envorinmental-sutainability-conservation-tour/

“Top notch demonstration of New Zealand.” That was the feedback from a teacher following Singapore American School’s Environment, Culture & Impact Tour.

Across the North Island, students explored how conservation, culture and sustainability are part of everyday life in Aotearoa.

The group visited the University of Waikato Coastal Marine Field Station to learn how technology supports marine research, took part in a local beach clean up, and experienced how tourism can help regenerate native forest at Rotorua Canopy Tours.

They also contributed to conservation work with the National Kiwi Hatchery, spent the night at a Marae learning about Māori culture and values, and explored Sanctuary Mountain, one of the world’s largest pest proof conservation projects.

Experiences like these show how New Zealand becomes a powerful classroom for environmental and cultural learning.

Singapore American School

How do destinations tell their story to the world?

Our new North Island Tourism and Communications itinerary is now live.

Travelling from Auckland to Wellington, this journey explores how destinations are experienced, interpreted and shared with visitors. Along the way students visit places such as Goat Island Marine Reserve, Waitomo Glowworm Caves, Rotorua, Whirinaki Forest and Tongariro National Park.

Each stop offers a different lens into New Zealand’s tourism industry, from conservation and cultural storytelling to regional destinations and visitor experiences.

If you are starting to think about a future tour to New Zealand, this itinerary is a great place to begin exploring what is possible.

Explore the full itinerary:
https://hakaeducationaltours.com/communication-and-tourism-nz-tour/

The Easter break often brings a bit of breathing room after a busy first term. It is also when many teachers start thinking about bigger ideas for the year ahead.

New Zealand offers so many possibilities for learning beyond the classroom. From geothermal landscapes to conservation projects, marine reserves, alpine environments and cultural experiences across the country.

If you could take your class anywhere in New Zealand, where would you go?

If a tour idea has been sitting in the back of your mind, now could be a good time to start exploring it.

Today we said goodbye to our first Hawaii group travelling through New Zealand on their Science & Culture Tour.

Over the past couple of weeks the group explored Aotearoa through hands on learning experiences across physics, biology and ecology, combined with cultural learning and some of our most iconic landscapes.

Along the way they experienced:

• Geothermal science at Wai-o-Tapu and Huka Falls
• Māori cultural learning in Rotorua
• Antarctic and aerospace education in Christchurch
• Dark Sky stargazing in Tekapo exploring the physics of our night skies
• Field experiences from Mt Cook to Milford Sound

This tour has been a long held dream for their teacher to bring students to New Zealand and explore our landscapes through real world science and cultural experiences.

A pretty special way to learn.


📸:L Matt Crawford

Not your typical classroom.

Drake University recently travelled through Australia on a programme exploring culture, environment and social impact through real world experiences.

Along the way the group experienced:

• Walkabout Wildlife Sanctuary
• A guided tour of the Sydney Opera House
• A social impact session with Our Big Kitchen
• Time with Tranby Aboriginal Co-operative
• A full day cultural experience at Mossman Gorge
• A Great Barrier Reef day cruise from Port Douglas

Educational travel at its best, connecting people, place and learning.

Drake University

Behind every Haka Educational and Sports Tour is a huge amount of planning, coordination and problem solving happening behind the scenes.

Our Operations team are the people bringing itineraries to life, working with suppliers, locking in logistics and supporting groups once they hit the road.

Anna leads that work as our Operations Supervisor, looking after the ops team and helping make sure every tour runs smoothly from planning through to delivery.

Swipe through to get to know Anna and what life in operations looks like.

Culinary Camp was a standout for Western Springs College on their Food Tech Tour in Italy.

Students spent two days learning from FarmerChef Lorenzo, cooking, tasting, creating and discovering the heart of Umbrian food traditions. 🍕🤤

Such a unique opportunity, and amazing to see it brought to life for this group.

Casa Segreta

Feedback like this always means a lot to our team.

Mount Maunganui College’s USA Media Studies tour created space for learning that went beyond the itinerary, shaped by the people, places and conversations along the way.

Thank you to the students and teachers for trusting us with this experience.

Happy International Women’s Day 💛

Behind Haka Educational and Sports Tours is a team of incredible wāhine who help make these travel experiences possible every day. From designing tours and supporting schools, to managing logistics and partnerships around the world, each role plays a part in the impact these journeys have on students and teams.

Today we’re celebrating the women behind the work and the way we support each other along the way.

And what better way to introduce some of the team than with the baby photo trend… we couldn’t resist.

Be honest… do the baby photos match the job titles?

Everyone’s saying 2026 is the new 2016, so we went back and looked.

2016 was our first full year of Haka Educational Tours. We’d just hit our first 10 tours and started working with suppliers we still trust today (👋 Rotorua Canopy Tours ).

2016 was also the year we began our partnership journey with Global Games, a relationship that grew from there and continues today through our bro-brand, Haka Sports Tours .

The team was smaller, but a lot of the people and relationships from that year are still part of what we do. That feels pretty special, ten years on.

#2016