Press Releases

It’s called the silly season and no wonder! While most Kiwis celebrate Christmas in a traditional way, the summer sun and pending holidays sometimes incite out-of-the-ordinary festive behaviour in New Zealand.

Scientists plan to search a lake in New Zealand’s volcanic region for traces of the long lost Pink and White Terraces - famed as the eighth wonder of the world before being buried a volcanic eruption.

One of New Zealand’s smaller South Island ski-fields, Ohau in the Mackenzie Country, is the second-time recipient of a supreme award for hospitality and expertise in tourism operation.

With 85,000 international visitors in the country, Rugby World Cup will showcase New Zealand to a global audience of discerning travellers – and, away from the rugby field, it’s Kiwi food and wine that’s likely to attract the most sustained interest.

Passengers might be checking in single file on Air New Zealand’s Los Angeles to Auckland flight on October 13 but the return journey could be a different matter if the world’s first Matchmaking Flight works its magic.

New Zealand’s rare celebrity parrot, Sirocco the kakapo, has been officially appointed as the world’s first “spokesbird for conservation”.

Japanese and New Zealand art works based on ancient traditions share the limelight in the latest exhibition at Dunedin’s award-winning Otago Museum.

Willowbank’s newest residents are just a little on the porky side – but that’s not worrying rangers who are excited about the latest arrivals at the Christchurch - New Zealand animal sanctuary.

Top snowboarders and skiers with a taste for the wild side are preparing to descend on one of New Zealand’s most remote mountainous regions.

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.