Press Releases

History has been created with one of the largest pieces of Māori art being gifted to China by New Zealand Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, John Key.

Two multi-talented New Zealand Māori artists are about to make their mark in the US – by becoming artists-in-residence at a prestigious Washington university.

Moa bones and a Māori adze head discovered on an historic building site in Auckland are being heralded as highly significant archaeological finds for New Zealand.

One of New Zealand’s rising stars in the wine industry is tapping in to a set of multi million dollar taste buds to help promote its brand.

Joy and solemn ceremony brought an epic 136-year journey to an end this week when a treasured Māori wharenui or carved meeting house was reopened in its rightful New Zealand home.

New Zealand is winning over the Indian film industry with another big budget Bollywood movie scheduled to shoot on Kiwi soil.

Attention-seeking celebrity dolphin Moko is basking in a fresh round of stardom in his new home waters at Whakatane, on New Zealand’s North Island east coast.

A Christmas miracle is being celebrated in New Zealand with the arrival of a very special kiwi chick.

They’ve been thrilling visitors for 40 years at one of New Zealand’s most picturesque locations in a world famous Kiwi invention - and now Queenstown’s Shotover jet has three million people to share the story.

A pre-dawn gathering on a New Zealand East Coast beach will be first to witness Matariki rising and the dawning of Māori New Year - at the same location that’s famously first in the world to see the sun.