Tourism

The high hopes tourism towns had for Australian school holidays have collapsed, with the brakes put on the trans-Tasman bubble.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has also ruled out financial help for… Video, Audio

Australia could be on the verge of a national outbreak of the Covid-19 Delta variant. Four states and territories have reported new cases and have imposed lockdowns or tighter restrictions.

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The start of the Australian school holidays was meant to be a lifeline for Queenstown's beleaguered businesses, instead that lifeblood has been cut off.

The government has closed the trans-Tasman… Video, Audio

Tourism and hospitality operators are crying out for help as the full trans-Tasman bubble closure dashes hopes of a winter bonanza.

Quarantine-free travel has been halted until at least midnight on… Audio

Southerners are waking to a chilly start today, as a polar blast hits the country.

That's brought a fresh layer of snow for the mountains.

But, that cold white stuff won't replace the cold hard cash… Audio

Tourism and hospitality operators are crying out for help as the full trans-Tasman bubble closure dashes hopes of a winter bonanza.

Quarantine-free travel has been halted until at least midnight on… Audio

A former Christchurch mayor is questioning the value of the city's multi-million dollar economic development agency saying it's not doing enough to grow jobs and industry.

ChristchurchNZ, got just… Audio

A former Christchurch mayor says the city's economic agency should stop focusing on events and tourism, and should put more effort into developing the economy.

ChristchurchNZ was founded four years… Audio

The South Westland town of Franz Josef has survived floods and earthquakes but the lack of international tourists due to border restrictions has forced many of the town's businesses into closure or… Audio

Tourism operators around the country are still holding out hope for a rush of income from the trans-Tasman bubble, months after it opened.

Before the pandemic, Australians made up almost half of all… Audio

"Get in quick" - that's the advice from DOC as bookings for the Great Walks have opened. They started at 9.30am this morning and Milford Track - the most famous of the walks - has already sold out… Audio

The tourism industry doesn't share the same confidence as Treasury forecasts, when it comes to reopening the border.

Throughout the Budget, Treasury's assumptions were based on what they called a… Audio

Christchurch native Rowan Bashford is living his best life in Iceland, where he runs a guiding company with his partner, Guðný Diljá Helgadóttir, and lives on a farm called Malarás in the Öræfi… Audio