Press Releases

New Zealand’s national cycleway project is off to an exciting start – with the first of seven ‘quickstart’ projects launching in July.

Five aspiring young film-makers from the US, South America, Australia and New Zealand are preparing to launch out on their first ‘big break’.

New Zealand is about to witness the largest ever, mass transfer of native kiwi as part of a major conservation operation.

With 50 countries confirmed to compete, the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Karapiro in the North Island will be the biggest international sport event in New Zealand since the 1990 Commonwealth Games.

From 12 December Australian travellers will be able to take advantage of direct flights into the central North Island of New Zealand.

A bunch of intrepid Kiwis on scooters are preparing to brave New Zealand’s Southern Alps on a winter-time expedition – the Tranz Alpine Scooter Safari – that will take them across the South Island.

British Disabled Ski Team members, in Queenstown for the 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games, took time out from their racing schedule to play with gravity at the Shotover Canyon Swing.

Auckland will host the solid gold Football World Cup trophy during a whistle-stop New Zealand visit on 27 April.

A tiny slice of New Zealand paradise is up for sale – an entire village for a cool $1 million.

New Zealand’s fabled Pink Terraces – one half of the long lost ‘eighth wonder of the world’ – have been found on the bottom of a volcanic lake near Rotorua.