The warming climate and changing weather patterns pose “a great risk” to the viability of ski fields and glacier tourism.
Hokitika Scenic Tours and West Coast Treetop Walkway and Zipline are partner on a regenerative programme that encourages people to purchase native plant seedlings as part of a fundraising effort for predator traps.
The West Coast is gaining appeal as a destination for domestic visitors to stay longer and include it as part of their travels around the country, according to new research from Development West Coast.
The annual Ōkārito GorseBusters event is returning again in 2023 with a strong contingent of local and international visitors taking part in the cleanup.
A sold-out flight from Wellington to Hokitika will take to the skies for the 34th Annual Wildfoods Festival.
A kayaker has died near Jackson Bay and Ohaaku in Haast.
West Coast visitor spend in January 2023 exceeded pre-Covid levels, reaching just over $27.5m across the region, up 10.7% compare to the same month in 2020.
A new cultural and heritage attraction near Fox Glacier and the Wekeka township is now open to visitors.
Entrada Travel Group is reinstating InterCity services on the West Coast from 11 December.
Connector trails between Westport’s Buller Bridge and Victoria Square are due to be completed by the end of the month.
In an industry-first collaboration, six West Coast and Canterbury regional tourism organisations have promoted their region to 80 agents from 40 inbound businesses at a product showcase in Auckland.
Visitors have been spending more and staying longer since NZ’s borders fully reopened.
The event wants to encourage the sector to challenge the way the region promotes itself.
Work on the first of the West Coast attraction’s four hubs is now underway.
The event aims to bring the region’s tourism whanau together to rethink, reinvigorate and challenge the state of the West Coast’s tourism offering.
West Coast and Canterbury regional tourism organisations are joining forces to relaunch tourism awareness with inbounders in the North Island.
Tourism spending on the West Coast fell 0.7% in the September 2022 year and guest nights also dropped 8.9%.
Manawatū and the West Coast are taking a tongue-in-cheek approach to attracting visitors to their regions over the summer, with the launch of two new ad campaigns.
Global media attention has resulted in more than 1,300 applications for a role as the Department of Conservation’s new biodiversity supervisor in Haast.
The experience could generate $161m in West Coast visitor spend over its initial 25 years.
Development West Coast will hold a tourism hui later this month to explore the theme of ‘customer service as a regional narrative’.
A West Coast recruitment campaign is seeking people Cut out for the Coast to fill jobs in the region.
Construction of the Department of Conservation’s new Experience Centre at the $26m Dolomite Point Redevelopment Project at Punakaiki is providing a boost for local accommodation and hospitality providers.
The chick is one of around 550 Haast tokoeka, the rarest type of kiwi.
The first of four experiential visitor hubs along the Pounamu Pathway on the West Coast is to apply for consent from Grey District Council.
Significant investment sees the operator position to reap the rewards from cycle tourism, which has seen spend jump to $951m on the Great Rides.
Public hearings will get underway next week for the proposed reclassifications of 504 parcels of Department of Conservation stewardship land on the West Coast.
Members of the Department of Conservation’s West Coast offices are banding together with their communities to celebrate Conservation Week and raise awareness of more than 4,000 at-risk plants and animals.
The Department of Conservation has opened its new field base office in Reefton after two years in the making.
The Paparoa Track Great Walk came through last week’s rainstorms relatively unscathed but the access road on the Blackball side is damaged.
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Construction is about to get underway on a connector trail that will link the Buller Bridge with the Toki Poutangata Bridge.
The Department of Conservation has extended the period for making submissions on proposed classifications for stewardship land on the West Coast by 20 working days to 23 August 2022.
The South Westland Jobs For Nature programme has been extended for another year thanks to total funding of $3.78m from the Department of Conservation until June 2023.
A Southland man’s efforts to improve the quality of information about the West Coast’s popular tourist sites is using a somewhat understated tool for the job – Wikipedia.
Sustainability, collaboration, and new approaches to attracting domestic visitors have come to the fore in one of the hardest hit tourism regions.
Proposed changes to the classification of stewardship land on the West Coast will not affect any existing rights or concessions already granted.
Work on the Experience Centre at the $26m Dolomite Point Redevelopment Project in Punakaiki is now underway.
West Coast businesses have been recognised for their excellence at the 2022 Development West Coast Leading Light Business Excellence Awards.
Total tourism expenditure in the Buller District increased by 9.8% in the year to March 2022.
The Department of Conservation has reopened a section of the Paparoa Track on the West Coast ahead of schedule.
A successful effort to bring fibre broadband connectivity to the West Coast will enable the Rural Connectivity Group to build 16 new mobile cell sites across the region.
Okarito Kayaks’ Barry Hughes has declared the annual GorseBusters 2 cleanup of the Ōkārito Lagoon “possibly the busiest we’ve ever seen the remote South Westland wetland”.
The effort highlights the need for operators working in vulnerable environments to become more sustainable.
Construction work on the main phase of the Department of Conservation’s Dolomite Point Redevelopment Project at Punakaiki will start next month.
Tourism and hospitality employment opportunities across the region can be improved, says a new report.
Okarito Kayaks and locals will offer free accommodation, food, kayaking and entertainment to participants.
So much to see and do, as seen in this joint top of the south road trip campaign encompassing Marlborough, Kaikoura, Hurunui, West Coast and Nelson.
Glaciers are melting at a faster rate in the last 10 years, with the three worst years in the last 35 being since 2011.
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels will reopen the former Kingsgate Hotel Greymouth as Copthorne Hotel Greymouth on 1 March.
