New Zealand Travel News

Christchurch hotels are heading for the winter doldrums as tourism bosses warn skiers may bypass the city and head straight for Queenstown.

The Prime Minister, John Key, today turned the first spade of soil marking the official start of work on the NZ Transport Agency's $220m upgrade of the Northwestern Motorway causeway in west Auckland.

LICENSING bosses are to call time on a "sleazy and degrading" two-way mirror at a nightclub which allows revellers to leer at women in the toilets.

Frankie the cat has a friend for life in Jana Beth and Tim Mosley, of York, England.

The New Zealand Herald is the fastest-growing daily newspaper in the country with readership increasing every single day of the week, the latest Nielsen audience numbers show.

A new multi-jurisdictional customer service center has become available for residents in New Zealand.

"Every morning here at breakfast people comment about New Zealand. Almost all, including Americans, say what a beautiful country this is, 'But the towns - what they are doing?', they ask.

US Embassy Wellington History will repeat itself this Sunday as a group of United States Marines retrace the footsteps of their former comrades, seven decades later.

CBE chief superintendent Naomi Johnson racked up $1,110.92 in international data roaming charges on her tablet while on a taxpayer-paid trip to New Zealand.

The Asian star has risen, that much is clear. And the trend has filtered through to the world of design.

SLEEPLESS NIGHT: Pierre-Oliver Pigeon, 21, and Maude Rousseau, 18, of Montreal, were among the travellers told to leave Christchurch airport at midnight.

CYCLISTS can saddle up and take part in an exhilirating 50-mile charity night ride through the streets of Edinburgh to raise funds for the Primrose Hospice.

Adam Hutchinson is helping travellers in New Zealand find their way to the toilet.

A new photographic guide of New Zealand fossils is expected to become a landmark reference for local fossil hunters for many years.

Ruby directing manager Christine Sharma believes New Zealand labels have to adapt to survive in the new online environment.

Tourism Bay of Plenty general manager Rhys Arrowsmith unveiled plans for promoting the Bay of Plenty at a tourism operator event on Monday night.

A Scottish sheriff said today that he would rather work from "a large furniture van" than see courts close in dozens of rural areas.

When a cruise ship comes in there may be 300 people in an hour and some businesses struggled with that.

Chinese visitors usually opted to book package deals or tours of New Zealand, with the Bay of Islands, Rotorua and Queenstown.

Otago Heritage Bus Society deputy chairman Peter Dowden in Queenstown on Sunday with the first Mount Cook Denning Jumboliner.