Tourism New Zealand is not spending enough to attract Chinese tourists to New Zealand, a major tourism buyer says.
It was a grave lesson for 26 Bayfield High School pupils yesterday, as they researched tombstones at the Southern Cemetery in Dunedin as part of a social sciences project.
Carisbrook Trust chairman Malcolm Farry says reports of the Awatea St, Dunedin, stadium costs blowing out to $400 million were "utter nonsense".
Travellers heading overseas from New Zealand's largest airport will pay a passenger services charge, rather than the present $25 international departure fees, among other changes for Auckland Airport announced at the Trenz 2008 tourism conference in Rotorua yesterday.
The Dunedin Chinese garden was popular with buyers of tourism products at the start of the Trenz conference in Rotorua yesterday.
Southern tourism operators at the three-day Tourism Rendezvous New Zealand (Trenz) conference in Rotorua are reporting strong interest from overseas buyers of New Zealand tourism products, who are increasingly looking for new and exciting destinations.
Air New Zealand will use biofuel in a test flight at Auckland Airport later this year.
Tourists are increasingly surprised by what Dunedin has to offer, but not by the weather, a report reveals.
Playing the Bible on his iPod has helped lighten the load of the cross Ryan Craig is carrying from Bluff to Cape Reinga.
Southern tourism operators figured prominently at the Tourism Industry Awards 2008 announced at the Trenz 2008 tourism conference in Rotorua yesterday.
Green was the word at the Tourism Rendezvous New Zealand (Trenz) conference in Rotorua yesterday.
"It is a business network, but it is a net that has to work", is how chairman Philip Broughton describes the Southern Maori Business Network, after its annual two-day hui finished yesterday.
A competition at the Dunedin Skateboard Park in Thomas Burns St will involve more than just kick-flips and ollies; it will serve as a fund-raiser for a new park and there will also be a remembrance service for three young skateboarders who died this year.
An 11-year-old bookworm capable of devouring three books a day was one of the first in the line for the start of the Regent 24 Hour Book Sale yesterday - just don't tell her teacher.
It has been dubbed "Our Stadium" but Southlanders were staying away from a presentation about the Awatea St Stadium, resulting in a smaller venue for the Invercargill public forum and a cancellation of a free breakfast in Gore.
It willl be a takeaway with a difference when the colossal squid embarks on a joyride through downtown Wellington next month
Taylormade chief executive Ian Taylor has headed overseas in an effort to keep his multimedia company based in Dunedin.
Despite the doom and gloom of recent job losses, there is still light at the end of the tunnel for businesses, Otago Chamber of Commerce chief executive John Christie says.
Martin Phillipps has yet to write a song about his decade-long battle with hepatitis C, but on Saturday his band The Chills played a gig in Cathedral Sq, Christchurch, to mark World Hepatitis Day.
The Department of Conservation is refusing to comment on the number of submissions it has received as it attempts to slash $8 million and more than 50 jobs from its operations.