Press Releases

Wanaka will welcome more than 300 top international junior snow sports athletes for the 2010 FIS Junior World Championships which begin this week (19 - 31 August).

Christchurch – New Zealand gateway to the South Island’s extensive wine growing regions, and newest member of the Great Wine Capitals Global Network – is set to host the movers and shakers of the international wine industry.

New Zealand’s honey for health pioneer, Claude Stratford, has turned 100 years old today (18.8.2010) – a walking advertisement for the natural bee products he’s made world famous.

One of New Zealand’s notable historic homesteads and most significant private art collections have come together in an art and culture mix that promises to become a prominent Auckland visitor attraction.

A Marlborough high country merino sheep station has become one of the largest covenanted private conservation areas in New Zealand.

A South Island restaurant that began in the paddock of a family farm has just been named restaurant of the year in the Cuisine New Zealand annual awards.

Discarded New Zealand farm fence posts are the raw material behind an international beauty industry innovation.

Two young Kiwi lawyers are on the verge of completing their dream run – a year, or 365 days of playing golf on a different course every day around the world.

Luxury travellers to New Zealand will have a spectacular new destination – Matakauri Lodge near Queenstown, when it’s unveiled on 27 August.

Flight of the Conchords fans mourning the end of the Grammy Award-winning TV series will have something to celebrate on 26 August – when Predicament, starring one-half of Conchords duo Jemaine Clement, is released into New Zealand cinemas.