Press Releases

Billed as the country’s biggest spring festival, New Zealand Cup and Show week takes the prize for diversity with a programme featuring everything from rural life, racing and rodeo to fashion, theatre and dancing.

New Zealand is dominating downtown Tokyo with its giant rugby ball in pride of place beside the iconic Tokyo Tower to promote the country and the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

The historic village of Martinborough will be the toast of New Zealand on 15 November when thousands gather for the country’s premier wine, food and music festival.

America’s reality TV star, Jason Mesnick and his partner Molly Malaney of The Bachelor fame, have become engaged during a romantic return visit to New Zealand.

British travellers have awarded New Zealand yet another accolade – this time voting the country their favourite long-haul destination in the annual Readers’ Travel Awards.

Some call it the “flightless national bore” and others a “biological oddity” but New Zealand’s iconic bird, the kiwi, has topped polls to become NZ Bird of the Year

A New Zealand campaigner responsible for negotiating international peace deals has received a prestigious award known as the alternative Nobel Prize.

A British zoologist who had an encounter of the mating kind with an endangered kakapo during filming for the BBC in New Zealand, has had the honour of naming one of the rare parrots.

A traditional Japanese tea house and garden, designed and constructed in Japan, and then rebuilt in New Plymouth, New Zealand, is to become a major feature of the 2009 Taranaki Rhododendron & Garden Festival.

A front row with perfect balance, good body and grassy tones might well sound like a coach’s description of his rugby team but these are in fact terms that sum up a new range of New Zealand wines released especially for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.