Press Releases

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

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

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

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.

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.

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’.

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.

The Hillary Trail – a new four day walking track on Auckland’s west coast honouring Sir Edmund Hillary – has been officially opened on the second anniversary of the New Zealand hero’s death.

The world’s smallest penguins are about to be given a big hand up with their own VIP – very important penguin – nesting area at EcoWorld in New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds.