The hotel featured 150 rooms and suites, a restaurant, and a sixth-floor bar with views of the harbour.
He said the new AquaPlay area would add to the fun features of the business and will make the complex even more appealing to visitors.
Recognised in Lonely Planet’s Best Native Food category, Hiakai combined traditional Māori ingredients and cooking methods with a contemporary spin.
With border restrictions and a call to support regions and domestic tourism operators, DOC was expecting more New Zealanders out and about this summer.
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Rewilding the forests lining the Kawatiri/Buller River could provide a unique river landscape visitor experience.
Auckland Transport will test people-friendly spaces and safer ways to travel along Auckland’s Ponsonby Road as part of the Innovating Streets project.
However, domestic passenger numbers in October 2020 were 47.9% up on September 2020
Air New Zealand’s World Premiere in the Air departed Auckland Airport on Saturday carrying popular Kiwi band SIX60 and a planeload of fans to the band’s birthplace of Dunedin.
New Zealand Story has launched an international awareness campaign modelling campaigns from Tourism New Zealand and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise.
WellingtonNZ received enough registrations to fully allocate the Covid-19 Business and Tourism Transitions funding.
Air NZ carried a total of 350,000 passengers during August, which included the 19-day Auckland Covid-19 lockdown period when social distancing was required on domestic flights.
Rotorua’s National Kiwi Hatchery will reopen to visitors in time for both the September school holidays and to celebrate the hatching of its first kiwi chick of the season.
The walking and cycling pathway would stretch from Westhaven to Albany.
The Government will invest up to $20m to redevelop Golden Bay’s Port Tarakohe.
Those using The Remarkables access road outside of the ski season will soon be charged $10 per vehicle after NZSki installed a new access gate.
Greater Wellington Regional Council has made a business case to the tune of $415m for the delivery of the new trains and associated network improvements in the face of accelerated regional population growth.
New artist impressions have been released for Cathedral Square in Christchurch.
Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development’s Go with Tourism platform has received a Commendation for Innovation at the Economic Development New Zealand 2019 Best Practice Awards.
Einnee Facey of the Russell TOP 10 Holiday Park has been awarded the 2019 Holiday Parks Emerging Star Award for holiday park professionals under the age of 35.
Industry has downplayed the postponement of next week’s 2019 China-New Zealand Year of Tourism launch, claiming there are no “shadows in the dark”.
The Ticker checks in with operators around the country to get a sense of what the season has delivered to date.
Tourism Industry Aotearoa is ramping up activity as part of its 2018 ‘Tourism Story’ project which aims to support the industry’s social licence to operate.
A strong global trend for more consumer dollars to be spent on tourism will help offset looming headwinds for the NZ sector, according to Westpac.
The Auckland-based operator is looking to boost its Chinese customer experience across its five NZ sites.
Women dominate a list of 57 new appointments to New Zealand’s conservation boards – a key link between the Department of Conservation and the community.
MBIE has been negligent in the management of its top tourism collection and we may never know the extent of the damage, writes the Ticker’s Paul Yandall.
Farmers are closing off tracks to tourists as increasing numbers putting pressure on their land and infrastructure.
This year’s annual Cruise-for-a-Cause recipients, the KidsCan Charitable Trust and Wanaka Search & Rescue are both off to swift start with their fundraising efforts.
Tourism marketing experts ReserveGroup have evolved their business to Blue Ocean Marketing occupying a new space in the market where they are “more than strategy, more than execution”.
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More than 50 travel agents from India and South East Asia visited New Zealand this month to wrap up almost a year of up-skilling themselves on New Zealand.
The Secretary-General of the UN World Tourism Organization Zurab Pololikashvili’s opening address of the 2018 edition of the ITB Berlin travel trade show.
QLDC is encouraging members of the public to show their support for the returning New Zealand Winter Olympic team at a special event in Wanaka today.
Tourism New Zealand has launched The Art of Excelling at Association Events publication aimed at association professionals.
A tractor painted entirely in gold will serve as a welcome reminder of Agrodome’s new national gold status as a quality tourism business.
Former Prime Minister Bill English and Tourism NZ are to present Australasian investors with the government’s America’s Cup plans.
The boom in tourism this summer is turning the attention of regional marketers towards destination management, in an effort to balance industry growth and local community satisfaction.
Martinborough-based Green Jersey Explorer Tours is going international and taking a cycle tour to France in 2018.
Chinese skiers are visiting New Zealand during China’s off-season to hone their skills on our South Island ski fields.
The popular Tuku Iho exhibition has been a backdrop for training that has seen around 600 travel sellers from America schooled up on New Zealand.
Tourism is today the 3rd largest export industry in the world after chemicals and fuels.
More than 400 travel agents across the United Kingdom and Europe were educated on New Zealand’s regions during Tourism New Zealand’s latest roadshow.
Tourist arrivals in the Pacific ACP and SPTO member countries increased by 18.4% in the second quarter of this year when compared to the first quarter.
David Hammond and Lyn Cheyne have teamed up to provide specialist Destination Management and Marketing advice, expertise and support to Australasian local government organisations and interests.
The Government is seeking public feedback on how to best manage space rocket activity and its environmental impacts.
Iconic Dunedin visitor attractions the Royal Albatross Centre and Blue Penguins Pukekura reopened today after 12 days closed by slips caused by the Dunedin deluge last month.
Changes to temporary work visas are more workable, says BusinessNZ Chief Executive Kirk Hope.
