Maori Culture

The legend of Wairaka, the ancestor of the Mataatua people and how the town of Whakatane got its name.

Loosely translated as hospitality, 'manaakitanga' plays a key role in Māori society and inspires the New Zealand visitor experience.

For New Zealand's Māori people, Matariki - the rising of a cluster of tiny stars in the final days of May - is a celestial signal of an ending and a beginning.

Matariki – the Māori New Year – is a festive season for the tangata whenua or first people of New Zealand.

Top Maori singer/songwriter Moana Maniapoto has three albums behind her (Tahi and Rua – meaning one and two), Moana and The Tribe already released in Europe, and a fourth album on the way in New Zealand.

An overview of Maori Culture as it exists in modern New Zealand society.

Māori were aware that the earth was the giver of all life, from the soil came food and that same food was cooked beneath the earth.

Snow is gathering on New Zealand’s high country, and mountain resorts are grooming their fields as the country says goodbye to autumn and welcomes visitors for another season of uniquely Kiwi winter events.

New Zealand Māori chef Charles Royal has come a long way since his days as a field chef in the New Zealand Army when the bush was a means of survival.

Intrepid nineteenth century tourists travelled around the world to visit New Zealand’s famed Pink and White Terraces.