GOOTmate is our informal travel network on Facebook!

NOTE: You must be a GOOT Card holder to use GOOTmate - read more in the featured section to find out how to get a GOOT Card.

To quickly learn about GOOTmate read through the featured sections, but to put it simply:

• GOOTmate is an informal social travel network.
• GOOTmate puts visitors to New Zealand in touch with passionate local kiwis.
• GOOTmate provides a forum for groups of people to come together and plan and participate in a wide variety of trips and adventures.
   

Why GOOTmate works?

When people travel in groups they can get discounts from operators (the old group discount*). This is one of the great advantages of GOOTmate. People also retain ownership of their trip (they are not on a tour), but somebody who knows the area has planned things for them. The local gets reimbursed for their time and gets to show off the places they love, the travellers get a cheap organised fun trip, the operators get more customers, everyone makes friends and we get more GOOT members. Everybody wins.

* Do you think the big tour bus operators pass these discounts onto their customers? Naaaa ;)