Press Releases

More than 1100 athletes from 80 countries are converging on the South Island city of Christchurch for the IPC Athletics World Championships – the biggest event of its kind outside the Paralympic Games.

New Zealand’s premier ‘one speed’ mountain bike event will bring 900 riders from more than 30 countries to Rotorua’s thermal forest trails next month.

Race yachting teams for the Team New Zealand-hosted Louis Vuitton Pacific Series were announced in Paris today (November 6).

A New Zealand adventure tour company is claiming a world first with a bus that runs on used cooking oil.

From New Zealand’s deep south to the far north, the inaugural Tour of New Zealand – scheduled for 14 to 21 April 2012 – is destined to put a new spin on cycling New Zealand.

Whale Watch Kaikoura has won a second international accolade – in the Tourism for Tomorrow Awards announced in Beijing today (26.05.2010).

Adventure tourism pioneers AJ Hackett and Henry van Asch tandem jumped for joy as they celebrated 20 years of adrenalin thrills at Queenstown’s Kawarau Bridge yesterday (12.11.08).

International visitors cruising around New Zealand in a rental car can now tune in to Tourism Radio, a station designed to entertain and educate them about New Zealand en route.

New Zealand’s largest international tourism event TRENZ opens in Auckland next week (24.05.2010), with new products to tempt the world’s travel and tourism industry.

Tourists at the North Auckland beach resort of Paihia were among the first to take up the offer of free video postcards recording New Zealand travel raves for family and friends back home.