Potiki Adventures is proudly a Maori owned and operated Maori Tourism Company based in Auckland City and Waiheke Island.  Potiki Adventures was founded in 2004 with the vision of providing products and services to overseas visitors at the highest possible level whilst providing employment for Maori people in an environment that celebrates living and working by Maori customs, values and culture.

Shortly after the business began trading, Potiki Adventures was quickly nominated for and won several tourism and business awards including the Maori Women’s Welfare Incorporation Best Maori Women in Business Award and Her Business Magazine Business Awards.

The company allows visitors to Aotearoa/New Zealand to engage with Maori people in a way that celebrates Maori culture for it’s history, survival through assimilation and colonisation right through to how it is living and breathing in today’s society.  A Potiki Adventures tour allows the visitor an insight into Maori culture that otherwise has been inaccessible to tourists.  The Island Maori Experience, Specialised Auckland Day Tour and Marae Stay are the most popular tours Potiki Adventures currently offers.

Potiki Adventures is also well known for the work done within Maori communities running programmes for local young people through community-based marae.  Each year the company works with approximately 300 young Maori people, using outdoor education as the medium.  This work is a very important part of the company as it is investing in the future health and leadership of Maori people and communities.