Rather than just throw them in the recycling bin, the agency is offering up the brochures to schools and students - or anyone - who may be able to make use of them in some form.

Agency manager Caroline Sage put a post on Facebook offering the brochures and said it had "gone ballistic".

"It's been crazy," she said, adding she was a little surprised by the response.

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"We used to keep a basket by the door that students could come and take old brochures from but once the internet took over they could pretty much just print off there so we stopped doing that.

"But this time we've had a massive response.

"I just thought it would be nice to put all these brochures to good use. I can't see people travelling anywhere, at least this year, so rather than just throw them in recycling we thought we'd try and put them to use."

Among the schools to claim brochures is a school in Wellington.

Ms Sage said the teacher was happy to take brochures off their hands and will put them to good use in her students' geography lessons.

"People don't like the idea of things just going to waste, plus they have beautiful pictures and are printed on high quality paper," she said.

While she does not know how much they cost to produce, Ms Sage said she suspects they are expensive due to their high quality, which is why she is happy to see them used for another purpose.

"We will soon be spring cleaning our storage cupboards to make room for our 2021-22 brochures so we just thought we'd put a call out to see if any schools or daycare centres may want to use them for future class projects," she said.

"Or, maybe a traveller that's keen to put together their ultimate dream travel itinerary.

"There's no point in holding onto them, I don't see anyone travelling for the rest of the year."

Ms Sage said people can take as many as they like.

"They've been sitting in our cupboard COVID-free over the past few months. Just call in and grab them," she said.