Share your backyard and build your name. The swimming hole locals use, the lookout with no sign — anyone can add them as a free listing, no profile needed. Becoming a Contributor is the optional next step: turn what you know into your own byline, portfolio and badge.
Start NowShare your backyard and build your name. The swimming hole locals use, the lookout with no sign — anyone can add them as a free listing, no profile needed. Becoming a Contributor is the optional next step: turn what you know into your own byline, portfolio and badge.
Start NowListing is free for everyone, no bio or profile required. Becoming a Contributor is for locals who want more than a listing: your name on your work, a public profile, and a track record that grows every time you share something new. Here are four ways it pays off.
Every guide, piece of local advice and hidden-gem story you publish carries your name — a public, growing portfolio of your writing, not just a listing in a directory.
You know the track no one else knows and the café that locals actually go to. Turn that local knowledge into the stories that put your patch of New Zealand on the map.
Your contributor profile can point straight to your own site, Instagram, YouTube channel or wherever else your work lives — free, ongoing exposure for everything else you do.
If you run a business, your listings and articles can send real travellers straight to your door — people discovering you through the content you wrote, not an ad.
Listings, posts, Local Advice and approved photos all move you up automatically — there's nothing to apply for, and no one to ask. Each tier includes everything in the one before.
Any one of: 1 listing, approved photos on 3 places, 2 pieces of Local Advice, or 1 post
Your entry badge — you're officially part of the Tripplanner contributor community.
3 listings
Photographers: 15 approved photos across 5 different places count as one listing.
Three listings in, you clearly know your region — this badge tells other travellers you're a trusted local voice.
3 listings + 2 posts
Local Legends don't just list places, they write about them — think “Best Day Trips from Wanaka.” Tripplanner's top badge.
Counts: published listings; posts, including an accepted “write your own version” of a Tripplanner Team guide; published Local Advice; and visitor photos we approve — once per place, and only when sent with the email address of your Tripplanner account.
Doesn't count: reviews, “report a change” messages and general feedback. We read every one, they just don't change your tier.
Anything later removed, unpublished or expired stops counting. Perks are at Tripplanner's discretion and may change.
