The Queenstown Lakes District Council had been "hoodwinked" and the deal the Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC) had done with Auckland International Airport Ltd (AIAL) was "cute", Queenstown businessman John Martin said yesterday.
After the success of this year's Queenstown Winter Festival, director Simon Green has been reappointed to manage next year's event.
A high-flying weekend looms at The Remarkables with the first of the 2010 season's Youth Mini Shred series.
The Queenstown Chamber of Commerce called an urgent meeting yesterday morning to discuss what it regarded as "an increasingly contentious releasing of shares" by the Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC) to Auckland International Airport Ltd (AIAL).
The suggestion Auckland International Airport Ltd (AIAL) was looking to constrain tourism growth was "completely at odds" with its strategic plan, Auckland Airport communications adviser Andrew Pirie said yesterday.
While Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC) chairman Mark Taylor has "some sympathy" for those critical of the decision to create and sell 24.99% of shareholding in the airport to Auckland International Airport Ltd without telling the community, he stood by the board's decision.
Queenstown could be the honeymoon destination of choice for Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his wife Sakshi Rawat if an official invitation is accepted.
So far, 2010 has been good to Millbrook Resort, which has realised $9.8 million in new sales and resales of homes and sections, and this week received news a show home had won a regional Master Builder's House of the Year award.
A change to Queenstown Airport Corporation's (QAC) statement of intent between February and June was a case of "better wording", QAC chief executive Steve Sanderson said yesterday.
A terminally ill Auckland man has received a gift "beyond words" from Queenstown businesses after spending a week in the resort with his wife, as part of Mercy Hospice's Opening Doors programme.
The Hills did not have the ability to ask anyone for money to secure the next New Zealand Open, because it was "only the venue", The Hills general manager Sam Gent said.
Fresh from organising the 2010 American Express Queenstown Winter Festival, director Simon Green has been announced as 2010 ASB Queenstown JazzFest event manager.
Discussions were continuing between the developers of the second stage of the Remarkables Park Town Centre and several national stores "not yet represented in Queenstown", Remarkables Park Ltd director Alastair Porter said.
Football fans will have the chance to watch the Fifa World Cup final in Queenstown live on Monday morning, while raising money for two groups.
Police and Downer EDI Works contractors in Queenstown were kept busy yesterday morning as treacherous black ice quickly formed on State Highway 6 between Arrowtown and Frankton.
Temperatures plummeted in Queenstown and Arrowtown yesterday, with the hardest frost this winter.
Queenstown police have released an image of a man believed to have been involved in a serious assault in the resort early on Sunday.
It has been less than 48 hours since the Wakatipu Trails Trust (WTT) was told it had received $1.83 million in Ministry of Tourism funding for the Queenstown Trail, and those behind the plans are not wasting any time.
Accommodation for up to 500 students and staff at the Southern Institute of Technology campus is being planned for the second stage of the Remarkables Park Town Centre development.
"We need you. We need all of you." It is a clear and simple message being delivered across New Zealand to those who attend the Rugby World Cup 2011 Volunteer Roadshow, which visited Queenstown last month.
