With a host of exhibitions, galleries, artists, music and more this year's Art Trail should not be missed.  

The Local Activation Fund Programme made it possible to bring four fantastic tours to Howick free of charge.  All tours sold out with 25 people each day on a discovery of Howick Village, its art, food, beach, and heritage.  We visited Stockade Hill, Art Lounge NZ, Saturday morning market, Howick Beach, Shamrock Cottage, All Saints Church, Uxbridge Arts & Culture, Apothecary Licensed Eatery, The Good Home, Basalt and Urban in East.  Artists Dalene Meiring, Karen Symons, Merv Appleton and Jane Allnatt provided some insight into their art works.

Thanks to White Glove Experiences for your close collaboration with us to bring these tours to fruition, and for sharing our region with Aucklanders from near and far.

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At last we are able to meet in person - great to see everyone together again.  Our amazing team have The East Auckland Art Trail from 14th to 31 July during Elemental 2022, as well as a special event during the Auckland Heritage Festival, 1st to 16th October.  Watch our website events and Facebook for details as they come to hand.

We are thrilled to have a new East Auckland Visitor Map to promote our fantastic region.  Thanks to the Howick Local Board for their funding for this project, to Clare, Reay and the Times Media team for their collaboration and support and for producing another fantastic product.  Also thanks to Britta from Saxer Design for her valuable input and for letting us use some of her stunning photography.

After an extremely challenging year for hospitality and tourism due to ongoing Covid shutdowns we supported one of our newest members, Bucks Bistro, enjoying seeing human faces again as the team farewelled 2021

Due to Covid Lockdown conditions East Auckland Tourism joined the world and had our AGM via Zoom to end what has been an interesting and challenging year

East Auckland Art Trail during Elemental highlighted the amazing artistic talent in the region. Involved in this Trail were Uxbridge Art & Culture, NZ Art Lounge Auckland, Te Tuhi, Howick Art Group, Polish Heritage Museum, Howick Historical Museum, Brookby Barn, Clevedon Creatives + Co., Joel Nicholls, Merve Appleton, finishing the Trail with Disco on Ice at Paradice Entertainment.  With a range of live art demonstrations, workshops, exhibitions and entertainment this Trail proved to be a success, and the first of many more to come.

Promoting our region and its wide variety of cafes, restaurants and pubs linking to a dedicated page on our website listing specials and some suggested eateries, both historical and contemporary

Theme was the importance of good customer service as well as Covid coping mechanisms regarding staff and personal mental resilience

We would like to thank the Howick Local Board for their continued support of East Auckland Tourism and all we strive to achieve, and to Franklin Local Board for their support with our important website improvements that we undertook during the 2020-2021 financial year. 

Without the support or our Local Boards we would not be able to promote the region to locals and potential visitors, essential for a thriving local economy.

Steve Armitage updating industry stakeholders on past and future plans

All membersof the Regional Tourism Forum were invited to present a brief overview of their region 

Zac Watson and Steve Armitage from Auckland Unlimited on our famil in East Auckland.  Here at Stockade Hill, the first of many stops that provided our guests a taste of the many amazing visitor attractions to be found in the Howick Ward 

Our team members, Senthil Natarajan and Annette Smart, with the Concierges at Sky City where they discussed our region and the wonderful sights and places we have for their guests to visit when staying in Auckiand

East Auckland Tourism was established, initially called Howick Tourism by the request of the Howick Local Board.