Press Releases

Whale watching and the study of New Zealand’s diverse marine life is a major tourist attraction and a national pastime, but come winter the recreational activity takes on a more serious note.

The FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup kicked off in New Zealand with an opening clash between the home team and hot favourites the Canadians.

New Zealand’s great sheep farming heritage has inspired the supreme winning entry in tthe 2007 Montana World of Wearable Art Awards.

Visitors to Mt Hutt ski-field, in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, are catching some spectacular ski action as the ‘capital of speed’ hosts international teams in training for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The company whose computer graphics brought the America's Cup alive on the big screen is now turning its technology skyward.

New Zealand will host the World Heritage Committee’s annual meeting for the first time in July 2007.

Some of the world's best young surfers will be riding the waves at Piha - on Auckland's wild west coast - when New Zealand plays host next January to the World Junior Surfing Champs.

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

Peter Jackson’s King Kong will return in a world first exhibition hosted exclusively by Lower Hutt’s TheNewDowse museum.

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