Taranaki

New Plymouth in Taranaki will host Business Events Industry Aotearoa’s 2024 conference.

A climber on Mt Taranaki has been rescued after falling down the mountain over the weekend and coming to rest 600m below.

Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki Te Pūkenga has hosted a 12-strong teacher delegation from the architecture school of Huanggang Polytechnic College, Hubei, China.

The Department of Conservation is seeking assistance with identifying the riders of three quad bikes who illegally rode through and got stuck along the Wilkies Pools Track at Egmont National Park in May.

Tourism recovery in Taranaki is recovering, with annual visitor spend to the year ended April 2023 reaching just over $300m, a 20.6% increase compared to 2022.

A new bridge on a Taranaki stretch of the Forgotten World Highway could help boost tourism and economic activity in the area by up to $45m, says the government.

Venture Taranaki is facilitating a number of capability-building activities for the region’s established, early-stage and budding food and beverage enterprises throughout June and July. 

New Plymouth District Council’s Community Events Grant has delivered a $12,000 boost for the Waitara Night Markets.

New Plymouth District Council has announced the return of a winter pop-up event as part of the TSB Festival of Lights.

An $18m funding boost is helping to kickstart the extension of New Plymouth’s Coastal Walkway to Waitara.

The 2022/2023 TSB Festival of Lights delivered an $8.3m injection into Taranaki’s economy over summer.

The man who passed away on Mt Taranaki has been named as 57-year-old Christoph Heinrich Huelsmann.

Techweek is returning to regions around New Zealand this May to showcase homegrown innovation and technology.

The Department of Conservation has closed Taranaki Maunga’s Around the Mountain Circuit until further notice due to severe storm damage and constant erosion.

New Plymouth’s 85-year-old Poet’s Bridge at Pukekura Park is receiving a makeover to prepare it for the next generation of visitors.

Total visitor expenditure in Taranaki increased by 10.9% in the year to October 2022, according to Te Puna Umanga/Venture Taranaki.

The Department of Conservation is seeking tenders for the construction of a $13.3m Taranaki Crossing project.

The newly curated self-drive journey product and itinerary aims to encourage visitors to discover new experiences while travelling along State Highway 3.

The Taranaki Crossing visitor centre is set to undergo a $2.9m redevelopment as work gets underway to improve the experience for people traversing 41 kilometres of tracks in the region.

The New Zealand Airports Association has selected New Plymouth Airport as the winner of two design and excellence awards.

More than 70 international students have arrived in Taranaki to begin their education at schools and universities in the region.

Keep cats, dogs and animal friends at home and out of national parks – that is the message from the Department of Conservation after trampers brought their cats up Mt Taranaki this week.

A campervan has been transformed into a fully-curated art gallery featuring 26 New Zealand artists and 50 works.

Venture Taranaki has renewed its partnership with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and Callaghan Innovation.

A “smuggled” tapestry exhibition attracted around 21,800 visitors to New Plymouth, with 16,000 people coming from outside the region.

New Plymouth’s Brooklands Zoo has received accreditation from the Zoo Aquarium Association for its excellence and commitment to positive animal welfare.

Taranaki is among the top seven regions in the country for visitor spend for the year ending February 2022, says Venture Taranaki.

Pacific International Hotel Management School in Taranaki is calling on New Zealand students to train for a tourism career ahead of an expected surge in demand.

All live shows at the Auckland Art Festival and the WOMAD festival in New Plymouth have been cancelled due to the Omicron outbreak.

SkyCity Casino Hamilton has been named a Covid-19 location of interest after a Covid-19 case visited between 5.33pm-6.38pm on Tuesday 25 January.

WOMAD NZ organisers will proceed with extreme caution as they to works towards WOMAD 2022 set to take place in Taranaki 18-20 March.

Regions that rode the “do something new” tourism wave last summer are not benefitting as much but there have been bright spots.

The Coastal Arts Trail has teamed up with Quirky Campers NZ to launch a new art-immersive campervan.

New Plymouth Airport’s Te Hono terminal has won the special prize for an airport exterior at the Prix Versailles Airports 2021, beating Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport, Athens International Airport, and the Philippines’ Clark International Airport.

The TSB Festival of Lights in New Plymouth has been cancelled due to Covid restrictions.

Around 95% of Taranaki Crossing routes will be upgraded over summer.

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.

But they are unlikely to have the usual crowds of Aucklanders, says Venture Taranaki’s CEO

Taranaki projects protecting taonga species have received a $9.8m boost through the government’s Jobs for Nature programme.

Mt Taranaki’s Around the Mountain Circuit could be closed for months, following damage to the track during storms in July.

A trip down memory lane was one of the highlights of last week’s Tourism Export Council of New Zealand’s annual conference in New Plymouth.

Nearly 100 tourism suppliers are meeting the country’s inbound tour operators at the inaugural Tourism Trade Expo in Taranaki today.

Whanganui, Taranaki and the Manawatū are jointly launching a pan-region arts trail to showcase works and entice visitors to the lower west coast of the North Island.

The Department of Conservation staff is clearing and rerouting tracks on Taranaki Maunga after severe storm damage, and damage assessment of the entire network of tracks was still underway.

The use of personalised virtual assistants and digital tools will grow as more people travel alone in the future, according to research from Venture Taranaki.

Art and music events proving popular among out-of-towners.

Lack of overseas visitors, difficultly in finding migrant workers cited.

Christchurch and Nelson also win awards.

Venture Taranaki has made available over 400 assets and resources as part of its new Taranaki Story initiative to support regional enterprises.

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