Press Releases

Auckland will host another major Louis Vuitton yachting event this summer as part of a new world series that will put the big names of international sailing back on the world circuit.

An award-winning American travel writer on a ‘luggage free’ journey around the world touched down in Queenstown this week – the last international port of call on his five-week whirlwind ‘no baggage challenge’.

The state of emergency has been lifted in New Zealand’s Canterbury region and life is returning to normal two weeks on from the serious earthquake on 4 September.

New Zealand’s Northland region is enjoying the international tourism spotlight having won a series of significant awards for the best coastline, dive spot and luxury lodges in the world.

Listen up Lord of the Rings fans - you too can have Hobbit ears just like Frodo Baggins’ - hand-made and now available from Middle Earth.

Replicas of New Zealand’s quirky Yellow Treehouse may soon be seen all over the world.

'Boy' - the second feature film by New Zealand director Taika Waititi - is apparently the talk of the Sundance Film Festival.

Same sex parents at New Zealand’s royal albatross colony successfully hatched their first chick on Monday (1.02.10).

Some of New Zealand’s oldest inhabitants are creating headlines with their unexpected breeding habits - proving there’s life in the old fossils yet.

On yer bike - the first of the seven ‘quickstart’ projects for New Zealand’s national cycleway was officially launched today (02.07.2010).