Smart Travel

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.

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.

Cut-price airline Air Asia X has launched in Christchurch today (1.12.10) promising a major boost to the South Island tourism gateway, and the cheapest international airfares New Zealand has ever seen.

Adventure-loving backpackers wanting to get a taste of what Sir Edmund Hillary would call “base camp” can now bunk down in style at the foot of Aoraki Mount Cook, in New Zealand’s South Island.

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’re the most widely read travel guides in the world and now 'Lonely Planet' is upping the focus on New Zealand as a destination with four new books.

A Marlborough high country merino sheep station has become one of the largest covenanted private conservation areas in New Zealand.

Freedom campers wanting to take advantage of New Zealand’s unspoilt environment are being given a simple message – if there's no toilet, don't camp there.

Auckland has been rated as one of the best cities in the world to live in, according to Mercer's 2010 Worldwide Quality of Living Survey.

The 2010 ski season’s first snow dump has landed in New Zealand – at the peak of the popular Canterbury ski area at Mt Hutt.