Adventure

New Zealand’s natural beauty, Māori cultural experiences, small towns and main tourist centres have earned high praise in The Lonely Planet’s new guidebook released today.

International travel authority 'Lonely Planet' has chosen New Zealand’s Southern Lakes region as one of the world’s ‘Top 10 Regions to visit in 2012’.

Lonely Planet will release its first dedicated guidebook to New Zealand’s adventure-packed South Island in April 2009.

Famous Kiwis have chipped in to help paint a picture of their country for prospective tourists, by exposing their favourite haunts in the latest edition of 'Lonely Planet'.

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.

Global movers and shakers are in New Zealand’s best known alpine resort Queenstown, showing off their bartending prowess in the 2008 42BELOW Cocktail World Cup.

New Zealand is one of the top five most popular tourist destinations in the world, according to an international survey.

Kiwi athletes competing in India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games will take inspiration from the memory of two great mountaineering heroes – New Zealand’s Sir Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese companion Tenzing Norgay.

New Zealand has been given the thumbs up by British migrants as the best place in the world to live.

Re-tracing the footsteps of New Zealand’s early settlers across some of the country’s most remote and dramatic landscape has become an annual pilgrimage in Central Otago, New Zealand.