Event

An open-air opera event will be held on the Auckland waterfront on 11 – 14 February 2022.

Flight Centre’s corporate travel management event Illuminate 2021 will return this month.

Wānaka will host the Back to Life Hui regenerative tourism event on 26 October 2021.

A new event, dubbed the Great Kiwi Summer Festival, will be held at Lake Karapiro Domain from 16-17 October 2021.

The Maximum Occupancy New Zealand 2021 accommodation industry event scheduled for today at the Aotea Centre in Auckland has been postponed.

Audience attendance at the 2021 French Film Festival Aotearoa rose to 67,000, up 85.3% on the rolling four year average attendance prior to 2019.

International science conference and Australasian ports conference also slated for this year.

Tourism minister Stuart Nash to speak on 1 September.

The 2022 Grow Ōtautahi is set to return to the Christchurch Botanic Gardens on 18-20 March 2022.

Applications for the first round will be accepted until 30 April from conferences, conventions, public trade shows, exhibitions and others.

DOC asks deer hunters to take extra care in key season after two year gap in bid to avoid injuries.

The government has injected $950,000 in support of the 8th World Conference of the International Working Group on Women in Sport in Auckland in 2022.

Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre is launching a ‘Taste of Te Pae’ pop-up activation event ahead of the venue’s launch later this year.

A new event to support Southland’s hospitality and accommodation sector and boost the region’s reputation as a food and beverage destination will run from 1 April to 16 May 2021.

The Auckland Lantern Festival has been postponed to 4-7 March 2021, due to the region being in Covid-19 alert level 2.

Kiwi band Six60 says its show on Saturday at Wellington’s Sky Stadium attracted 32,000 fans, bringing its 2021 total tour numbers to around 100,000.

In a first for NZ, one of the country’s leading tenors will perform in a Discover Waitomo glowworm cave.

More than 50 stakeholders and operators attended Visit Ruapehu’s fourth annual industry forum at Chateau Tongariro Hotel.

The Hullabaloo Children’s Arts Festival will take place in Northland this October, and feature several New Zealand family entertainers.

Auckland’s visitor economy will miss out on close to $50m because of the change.

The collapse of tourism has been like “turning the ignition key off” for Queenstown, says the resort’s mayor, Jim Boult.

The WBSC Men’s Softball World Cup scheduled for Auckland’s ELE Stadium in February 2021 has been postponed with a new date yet to be set.

Auckland Art Fair has announced it will go online after Covid-19 forced the cancellation of the event scheduled to take place at The Cloud this month.

Tourism Industry Aotearoa has organised a full day event at Rydges Auckland to focus on how the tourism industry can tell positive stories about its benefits to communities.

Plans for the annual Wellington Lantern Festival remain unchanged, pending official advice or information in the coming week regarding the Coronavirus, according to organisers.

This event attracts around 200k visitors but has been cancelled because of concerns over coronavirus.

The World of WearableArt Awards Show was worth nearly $28m to the local economy in 2019, according to WellingtonNZ.

Māori businesses will be in the spotlight at the Tāmaki Herenga Waka Festival in Auckland on 31 January.

The Wellington waterfront will be awash with pink this summer courtesy of The Pink Line, a vinyl pathway that will wind its way around the shoreline.

The Tamaki Herenga Waka Festival will play host to an innovative new form of digital storytelling in the form of a water screen on the Waitemata Harbour, when it kicks off on 31 January 2020.

The ASB Classic has been named as the best event in the world for its tier at the annual WTA Awards

New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty has been announced as the new title sponsor of the Hawke’s Bay and Queenstown international marathons.

Hamilton is set to host the Special Olympics National Summer Games in 2021, with more than 3000 people expected to descend on the city.

Firefighters abandon roof to flames to focus on protecting building.

Auckland’s Piha Beach has been confirmed as a host for a World Surf League tour event as part of a three-year agreement between WSL, Auckland Council and the government’s major events fund.

More than 30,000 fashionistas are expected to attend the New Zealand Fashion Week in Auckland, which begins today.

Queenstown Resort College has secured naming rights to the Winter Games.

Almost 3000 spectators and participants attended Rotorua’s Winter Forest Festival on Saturday.