Press Releases

Tauranga comes alive with the sounds of soul, bebop, ragtime, swing, Dixieland and funk over Easter as jazz lovers swing into the 48th National Jazz Festival – an iconic Kiwi event.

Chefs and stallholders are planning to cook up a storm at this year’s annual Havelock Mussel Festival – a tasty celebration of the New Zealand green shell mussel.

Taranaki, known as the garden of New Zealand, will honour its long standing reputation when the region’s annual Rhododendron and Garden Festival opens in October.

When it comes to gardens, New Zealand’s Taranaki region has more to show off than most as many public and private gardens ready for the 2009 Taranaki Rhododendron & Garden Festival.

Arts and entertainment movers and shakers will gather at the North Island lake resort of Taupo in May for Erupt – a festival inspired by the fiery elements of the region’s volcanic plateau.

A pair of rugby-loving Brits will set off from London this weekend on an intrepid 18-month, 18-country journey to the New Zealand 2011 Rugby World Cup – on bicycles.

Motueka’s skies will swarm with some of the most amazing skydiving spectacles seen in New Zealand when the 2010 Good Vibes event is held from 18 - 22 August.

New Zealand will kick some good natured sporting rivalry into touch when Sydney welcomes Tourism New Zealand’s giant rugby ball next month (September 2010).

New Zealand’s Auckland Town Hall has resonated to some sweet sounds in its 100-year history, and the latest buzz involves a group of busy locals who seem set to stick around for a while.

New Zealand tourism operator Whale Watch Kaikoura has been named as a finalist for a major international award at the 2010 Tourism in Tomorrow Awards, to be held in Beijing on 26 May.