Press Releases

The small rural town of Kimbolton - in the North Island’s Manawatu region - is little known to many Kiwis let alone the international community, but now some local school children have put their home and New Zealand firmly on the world map.

The grey warbler is New Zealand's bird of the year.

A wintry blast that has blanketed the Southern Lakes region of New Zealand is perfect timing for the American Express Queenstown Winter Festival due to open Friday (June 27).

An intimate collection of the stories behind some of New Zealand’s most treasured songs has been published in a commemorative book released in time for NZ Music month – May 2009.

New Zealand’s South Island has been included in the world’s top eight fishing destinations by Singapore Airlines’ in-flight magazine.

You can't beat the love of a Southern Man….and the South Island's scenery and relaxed lifestyle could be their inspiration.

Southland’s wild and sparsely populated landscapes have been highly rated by Australian magazine Travel + Leisure in a new top 20 of emerging destinations.

Festivity is in the air this week as New Zealanders lift their eyes to the heavens for the rise of Matariki – the Pleiades star formation – in southern hemisphere skies.

This year’s Matariki celebrations are set to be one of the largest New Zealand has ever witnessed.

New Zealand will farewell one of its greatest sons, Sir Edmund Hillary, in a state funeral on January 22nd.