Press Releases

The number of New Zealand tourism companies credited with the country’s elite Qualmark Green Enviro-Gold rating has just topped 100 in spite of challenging times.

Hobbit fans are celebrating as the journey back to JRR Tolkien’s mythical Middle-earth prepares to relaunch.

Kaikoura – New Zealand’s southern whale watching capital – has become the first destination in the world to achieve gold in a new global green benchmark for community sustainability efforts.

A Kiwi adventure ride company has been given a US$1 million grant by internet giant Google to develop a human-powered transport system to take to the world.

A free falling frenzy of sky diving flair is filling the skies above Motueka this week as New Zealand’s largest annual sky diving event celebrates a decade in the air.

Queenstown – New Zealand’s adventure capital – is giving mountain biking enthusiasts new thrills with a spectacular gondola ride to the top of the trails and a new bike park.

It might sound like a golfer's pipe dream but a plan by two young Kiwi lawyers to travel the world playing a different golf course every day in 2010, has more behind it than pure indulgence.

Invitations are out for one of New Zealand’s most-anticipated snow sports events – the eighth annual Burton New Zealand Open.

A traditional Māori ball game played in pre-European New Zealand is enjoying an international revival – with rugby legend Wayne “Buck” Shelford poised to play in a European tour in September.

When the Italian rugby team steps out onto Trafalgar Park for their 2011 World Cup debut in the provincial New Zealand city of Nelson, they’ll be walking on broken glass.