Central Otago Forest & Bird members are proud of a two-year labour of love at Lake Hawea Station to offset their carbon emissions. Marjorie Cook reports.
Finish your destination management plans, pay tourism workers "a decent amount of money" and lift your service: this was the message from Tourism Minister Stuart Nash to the tourism industry...
Mark these days: April 12, May 1. Wanaka tourism operators have between four and six weeks to get their wheels back on, prime their engines and get the local economy moving again.
A combination of competition, Covid, jetlag and stress led to Wanaka biathlete Campbell Wright pushing his heart rate into the danger zone at an event in Italy on Sunday.
Tourism Minister Stuart Nash says he will "shortly announce" how Wanaka businesses can apply for a share of a $49 million kickstart fund and gear up for the return of international tourists.
Nathan Fa’avae’s Team Avaya was still leading the Godzone Adventure Race yesterday afternoon, 54km into a trek through the Eyre Mountains, on the way to Dead Dog Flat.
Team Avaya got off to a flying start at Godzone at the weekend, but several other athletes had to be choppered off the alpine course with illness or injuries.
The Ministry of Health has confirmed 15 people living in the Southern District Health Board area have been granted a vaccine pass exemption, from 593 granted as of February 1.
Wanaka tourism operators need certainty around when the borders will reopen so they can build a workforce and plan to regenerate, Lake Wanaka Tourism chairman Mat Woods says.
Smiles wreathed the faces of rugby identities Richie McCaw and Rob Nichol as they began the first day of their 710km "coast to coast" at Jackson Bay, Haast, yesterday.