Press Releases

Strong demand for tickets has Rugby World Cup 2011 organisers in New Zealand in a positive spin.

Eco-conscious travellers can now sign up to help keep New Zealand beautiful on a new hop-on hop-off green bus adventure.

More than 50,000 people are expected to make a pilgrimage to Gisborne in February 2011 when New Zealand’s culture-rich Eastland plays host to Te Matatini – the biggest festival of Māori performing arts in the world.

A ‘Hollywood vs Wellywood’ style charity cricket match, which pitched professionals against politicians and celebrities at Wellington’s Basin Reserve yesterday (13.3.11), has raised more than half a million dollars for Christchurch earthquake victims.

With the Gladiator, a selection of Hobbits and Gandalf defending the wickets, a Sunday cricket game in Wellington, New Zealand, is about to pitch Hollywood against Wellywood.

Visitors to the 2011 Hokitika Wildfoods festival on the South Island’s wild West Coast face a sartorial as well as a gastronomic challenge this year.

New Zealand has once again transformed into Middle-earth as Kiwi film-maker Peter Jackson puts the spotlight on 'The Hobbit' - one of the biggest movies ever to be made down-under.

An emotional meeting between two ‘first nation’ peoples stole the show at the opening of New Zealand’s Giant Rugby Ball in Sydney – the iconic white ball’s final international appearance.

A New Zealand homecoming that’s been 130 years in the making will see a famous wharenui or carved meeting house returned to its rightful place in one of the most significant Māori cultural happenings of modern times.

An island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf, closed to the public for almost 100 years and harbouring a fascinating history, has re-opened providing boaties and day-trippers with a unique destination.