Press Releases

An outlandish stunt has created ballooning history, high above the New Zealand countryside.

Tributes are flowing in from around the world for Sir Edmund Hillary who has died at the age of 88.

A moving film that became a personal journey for award winning New Zealand director Vincent Ward has had its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.

The picturesque town of Lake Wanaka in New Zealand’s South Island has been listed as one of the world’s 10 most romantic places to have a holiday.

Hammonds Scenic Tours this year celebrates 50 years operating as a tour coach business in and around Wellington and beyond.

New Zealand’s Weta Workshop has won the battle to create costumes for a new Hollywood blockbuster featuring well-known superheroes.

Fans of the Chronicles of Narnia films now have the chance to examine behind the scenes detail with the launch of a new book by the New Zealand special effects company Weta Workshops.

Movie fans and tourists keen for an insight into the workings of Weta, New Zealand’s Academy Award-wining visual effects studio, are already flocking to the company’s new showcase – ‘Weta Cave’.

Air New Zealand has again made aviation history with an in-flight concierge service that will revolutionise long-haul travel.

A new environmental rating system believed to be a world first, for tourism businesses, has just been launched in New Zealand