Events

Auckland’s Festival Italiano has been postponed for the second time due to Covid-19 restrictions.

Queenstown will play host to six international women’s cricket fixtures at John Davies Oval this February.

ACT leader David Seymour says the events sector should be given the wage subsidy to compensate for losses after the shift into the red setting.

The Waitangi National Trust Board will deliver a virtual Waitangi Day experience this year in the wake of continued Covid-19 disruptions.

The event, planned for 19 February, would have brought 5000 riders and 7500 supporters the town.

The Nelson Music Festival Trust has cancelled its 2022 Adam Summer Celebration.

Waitangi Day commemorations will be closed to the public but other major events are cancelled.

Organisers of Napier’s Art Deco Festival say they are working with event venues and event producers to reconfirm how they wished to proceed with their entries following the move to the red Covid setting.

The Ports of Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta will still go ahead as planned despite a flurry of event cancellations across the country after New Zealand moved into a red alert setting.

Music event Splore has been cancelled due to event restrictions under the Covid-19 red setting.

New Zealand Fashion Week has been cancelled due to the 100 person limit for events under the Covid-19 red traffic light setting.

Large numbers of visitors are expected to descend on the Mount Maunganui, Pāpāmoa, and Tauranga region this weekend for high-profile events.

Taupō Equifest festival is expected to attract thousand of visitors and provide a boost to the region’s tourism operators.

Applications for the third and final round of the Southern Lakes Regional Events Fund are now open for events held May 2022 to February 2023.

The Auckland Lantern Festival 2022 will return at the Auckland Showgrounds after a two-year absence.

Organisers the Marlborough Winegrowers Association said on Wednesday that given staff shortages in the industry it did want to risk the grape harvest, which runs from February to April.

Christchurch and Auckland will host the new high-tech global sailing competition Sail Grand Prix after New Zealand secured a four-year deal with the event.

Hobbiton Movie Set will hold its first half-marathon in April next year with brand new event to attract visitors to the Matamata attraction.

Auckland and Wellington will host nine games each for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup hosted by New Zealand and Australia.

The Southland A&P Show on 5 March 2022 has been cancelled due to uncertainty around the new Covid-19 Protection Framework.

Nineteen events have secured a total of $6.7m from the government’s Pasifika Festivals Initiative.

Christchurch City Council cancelled a planned New Year’s Eve party in North Hagley Park due to ambiguity around Covid restrictions for events, particularly those that are un-ticketed and open to the whole community.

A festival of carbon-zero New Zealand food will run alongside a new event in Auckland next year addressing the world’s agrifood climate challenge.

The Kāpiti Food Fair has been cancelled due to Covid uncertainty.

Business Events Industry Aotearoa (BEIA) is inviting registrations for its Future of Business Events Virtual Summit on Thursday, 9 December 2021.

Wānaka wine and food festival Ripe is returning after a successful inaugural year.

Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park in Christchurch will be cancelled due to continued uncertainty around travel restrictions.

The Events Transition Support Scheme will cover 90% of unrecoverable costs for paid, ticketed events.

A group of 20 Taranaki food and beverage producers are coming together to showcase their products in Eltham, the home of New Zealand’s first cheese exports.

More than 160,000 people have visited the New Zealand Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai in the first month since it opened on 30 September, say organisers.

The Go with Tourism Workforce Wānanga is going online.

A declaration to tackle climate action will be signed by global tourism stakeholders in Glasgow as part of COP26.

New Zealand Fashion Week in Auckland will be held from 7 – 13 February 2022 following an earlier postponement due to Covid.

Developing a deeper engagement with New Zealand’s food system from production to consumption would unlock a greater opportunity to build cross-sector connections between the food and tourism industries.

Next year’s Te Matatini Kapa Haka competition has been postponed until February 2023 because of Covid uncertainty.

Southland’s 2022 Burt Munro Challenge has been cancelled due to the pandemic and uncertainty around the new Covid-19 Protection Framework.

Attendees at next year’s Warbirds Over Wanaka will be able to see the Royal Australian Air Force’s new F-35A Lightning II fighter jet in New Zealand for the first time.

Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park will be held on 11 December at Hagley Park in Christchurch.

The new multi-use arena in Christchurch is now scheduled for completion at the end of the second quarter of 2025.

The Queenstown Marathon has been postponed to 19 March 2022, due to ongoing travel restrictions and social distancing rules under level 2.

Business Events Industry Aotearoa has welcomed the National Party’s plan to create a government fund for events industry insurance cover.

The New Zealand Trucking Association has postponed the 2022 TMC Trailers Trucking Industry Show by nine months to November next year due to supply chain issues related to Covid-19.

The annual Farmers Santa Parade in Auckland has been cancelled for 2021.

Tourism Export Council of New Zealand today pulled the plug on its Xmas Symposium in Auckland scheduled for Wednesday 8 December.

Bay Dreams has cancelled its early January music festivals in Tauranga and Nelson because of difficulties securing managed isolation places for its international artists and Covid uncertainty.

Great South has allocated more than $550,000 this year from the government’s Regional Event Fund for events in Southland and Fiordland.

A&P shows up and down the country are being cancelled due to Covid restrictions and uncertainty.

Vaccine certification could bring more certainty to events like F.A.W.C!, which has been postponed until 2022.

Business Events Industry Aotearoa’s annual conference for 2021 will be moved to next year, although the organisation’s annual general meeting will go ahead online.

ChristchurchNZ’s Convention Bureau says it has secured nine business events for 2022 to 2027.