Press Releases

Two famed New Zealand lodges - Glenorchy’s Blanket Bay and Taupo’s Huka Lodge - have been named among the best luxury hotels on Earth.

A Californian couple who’ve waited 25 years to fulfil a dream to visit New Zealand, will be making the trip in style having won an on-line auction for a luxury holiday.

Two top New Zealand luxury lodges - Kauri Cliffs, in Northland, and The Farm at Cape Kidnappers, in Hawke's Bay - have come in #1 and #2 in an international travel survey.

New Zealand remains a number one destination choice for British travellers and travel industry professionals who’ve just chosen New Zealand as their dream holiday destination in the 2008 British Travel Awards.

A New Zealand winemaker has scooped the world’s largest wine competition winning the top red wine award.

Organisers of the 2010 World Rowing Championships to be held at Lake Karapiro – in New Zealand’s Waikato region – have used legendary Kiwi ingenuity to develop a novel tool to promote the event internationally.

Tourists riding the popular Tranz Alpine rail link across New Zealand’s South Island will soon be enjoying a more luxurious journey.

The unique natural environment of Farewell Spit, at the northernmost tip of New Zealand’s South Island, has landed the area on UNESCO’s tentative list for World Heritage Sites.

New Zealand’s landscapes will once again star on the big screen, this time in the most expensive Dutch film ever made. The film, Bride Flight, will be released in the Netherlands this October.

New Zealand has had more short films chosen for Cannes than any other country in the world, apart from France where the world famous film festival is currently in session.