Press Releases

Hagley Park in Christchurch will become a giant fan zone and festival area during Rugby World Cup 2011 providing a central venue for rugby-mad Cantabrians and visitors keen to be part of the major event.

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 New Zealand garden transported to the other side of the earth for the world famous Chelsea Flower show has not only won a silver medal, but also the royal stamp of approval from the Queen.

The 18 Great Rides of Nga Haerenga - the New Zealand Cycle Trail, have gone global with a new website just launched in Queenstown.

A rare all-white kiwi, thought to be the first ever bred in captivity, has hatched at New Zealand's Pukaha Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre.

May is New Zealand Music Month, the annual celebration of home-grown talent, which this year is about to expose some of the country’s best-known singers who’ve yet to record a chart-topping hit.

The Lake Track cycle trail along the western shores of Lake Taupo has received a cash injection in the final stage of becoming one of the 18 Great Rides of Nga Haerenga, the New Zealand Cycle Trail.

New Zealand’s tourism industry will be on show to the world next week at TRENZ – Tourism Rendezvous New Zealand – in the southern resort town of Queenstown.

Astronauts who are more used to viewing New Zealand from space will conduct a voyage of discovery with a difference this week when they step onto Kiwi soil as part of an ‘inner space’ mission.

Air New Zealand’s revolutionary ‘Skycouch’ – the economy seating that folds down into a bed - has won the Aviation category of Condé Nast Traveller's 2011 Innovation and Design Awards.