Recreation & Sport

The world’s top yachtsmen have begun arriving in New Zealand for the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series, a friendly summer regatta that will bring top sailing teams together for the first time since the 2007 America’s Cup.

Environmentally-conscious visitors are looking to New Zealand as eco-friendly accommodation, sustainable activities, and organic food and wine industries continue to develop.

New Zealand’s premier golfing event, the 92nd Michael Hill New Zealand Open championship tees off at the picturesque ‘The Hills’ course in Arrowtown, near Queenstown, on 28 January.

US Amateur Golf Champion Danny Lee, hailed as the next Tiger Woods, has officially become a New Zealander.

Cape Kidnappers golf course on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island has been rated as the best in the world by Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.

A team of New Zealand gymnasts is to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for forward rolls.

A group of Kiwi champion skiers and surfers has scored a world first in an ambitious feat thought to be only possible in New Zealand – skiing five different mountains and surfing five different breaks in just five days.

After eight days of intense international competition, colourful festivities and enthusiastic home-crowds, New Zealand rowing officials and Hamilton Waikato locals are the toast of the international rowing fraternity.

Some of the world's best young surfers will be riding the waves at Piha - on Auckland's wild west coast - when New Zealand plays host next January to the World Junior Surfing Champs.

The company whose computer graphics brought the America's Cup alive on the big screen is now turning its technology skyward.