Industry News
Appellation Central Wine Tours Wins International Award
Posted on 05. Nov, 2011 by Campbell.
Queenstown based premier wine tour company Appellation Central Wine Tours has received an International Best of Wine Tourism Award in the Wine Tourism Services category. Their win followed a jury meeting of the Great Wine Capitals (GWC) Global Network in Mainz, Germany last week. GWC judges said Appellation Central Wine Tours won the award thanks [...]
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Millbrook Named World’s Best Golf Resort
Posted on 20. Apr, 2011 by Campbell.
Queenstown’s five-star Millbrook Resort has been named the world’s best golf resort by Australia’s Luxury Travel magazine. Millbrook has taken out top place in the magazine’s 2011 Gold List Award for overseas golf resorts, ahead of strong New Zealand and international contenders. Last year Millbrook came fourth in the awards, which are decided upon by [...]
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Positive Signs Emerging From Christchurch
Posted on 01. Apr, 2011 by Campbell.
A new day spa has opened in Christchurch in what many are interpreting as a sign of confidence in the city’s ability to recover from last month’s quake. The new Linden Leaves Day Spa is the first of its kind in New Zealand and has opened in the Chateau on the Park hotel, opposite Hagley [...]
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Blog4NZ
Posted on 23. Mar, 2011 by Campbell.
Blog4NZ is a grass-roots effort on the part of the international travel blogging community to promote all that is good about travel in New Zealand, Canterbury and Christchurch. It is a worldwide blogging event that is running from the 21st to 23nd of March — the one-month anniversary of the quake. Following the devastating earthquake [...]
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The Hobbit Begins Filming
Posted on 22. Mar, 2011 by Campbell.
Production has commenced in Wellington, New Zealand, on “The Hobbit,” filmmaker Peter Jackson’s two film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s widely read masterpiece. “The Hobbit” is set in Middle-earth 60 years before Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with [...]
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Christchurch Loses RWC 2011 Hosting Rights
Posted on 16. Mar, 2011 by Campbell.
Tournament partners have today reluctantly decided that Christchurch will be unable to host the seven matches scheduled to be played at Stadium Christchurch and these will be rescheduled to be played at other venues in New Zealand. The decision was unanimously supported by Tournament owners the International Rugby Board, the New Zealand Government, the New [...]
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Doubtful Sound One of World’s Top 7 Cruises
Posted on 15. Mar, 2011 by Campbell.
Doubtful Sound in Fiordland has been picked by American travel website AOL Travel, as the place to experience one of the world’s top seven “unbelievablys scenic cruises”. AOL Travel writer, Janna Grabber rated it as“ breathtaking” along with cruises in Antarctica, Alaska, the French Riviera, French Polynesia, Maine’s Penobscot Bay and the Norwegian Fjords. “Fiordland [...]
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Relaxing Journeys Takes On The Globe
Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by Campbell.
As the market leader in touring holidays to Australia and New Zealand, Relaxing Journeys has utilized their experience to form a new online brand – Global Journeys. For the first time, Australians have the option to peruse, compare and book their coach tour or river cruise to anywhere in the world from the comfort of [...]
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Relaxing Journeys Awarded ‘AAT Kings Top NZ Wholesaler’
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Campbell.
‘AAT Kings Annual Champions Trip’ has come and gone for another year. This year 40 of AAT King’s top consultants in Australasia were treated to a 5 day tour of Tasmania. Our tour commenced in Hobart (fabulous city), then on to Port Arthur. The next day we drove across the state to Strahan on the west coast where [...]
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Cycle Trail carries Nga Haerenga brand
Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by Campbell.
Work has begun on the New Zealand Prime Minister’s pet tourism project, a $50 million, 1400km national cycle trail, and it now has a brand name – Nga Haerenga or “the journeys”. John Key this week turned the first sod on a $3 million job that will complete the final 41km piece of a 100km [...]
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Ipipiri – Discover The Bay of Islands
Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Campbell.
Craig at Relaxing Journeys was recently invited by Grand Pacific Tours to join them in the inaugural launch of the Ipipiri (E-pip-e-rey), a scenic overnight cruise of the Bay of Islands. Ipipiri, the sacred Maori name of the Bay of Islands, is a four storey, state of the art vessel, with stylish interior and 30 king state rooms, [...]
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New hotels for Auckland in time for Rugby World Cup 2011
Posted on 24. Jul, 2009 by Campbell.
Auckland Airport Novotel Announced The long-awaited details of an international-branded hotel for Auckland Airport have been announced. Auckland International Airport Ltd has entered into a joint venture with Accor Hospitality and Tainui Group Holdings to build and operate a new four-star Novotel. The 263-room, 12-storey hotel, which is expected to be ready in time for [...]
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Party Central
Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by Campbell.
The Rugby World Cup 2011 is creeping up very fast, and progress is finally being made on many of the infrastructure developments required to make this the best World Cup ever. Speaking at the TRENZ tourism event in Auckland, Prime Minister John Key announced that Auckland’s Queens Wharf will be used as ‘party central’ during [...]
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Update on Swine Flu
Posted on 18. May, 2009 by Campbell.
Health authorities are warning that Influenza A (H1N1) remains of concern, although it has dropped out of the headlines. Border authorities are continuing to screen arriving passengers into New Zealand and a number of people remain in quarantine, although all New Zealanders with confirmed cases of H1N1 have recovered. Source: Tourism New Zealand
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New Zealand Swine Flu Update
Posted on 05. May, 2009 by Campbell.
The New Zealand government has moved quickly to respond to cases of Swine Flu in New Zealand. A small number of people in New Zealand have tested probable or are suspected of having the illness – all have been isolated and treated promptly. As soon as the Government was notified in late April of suspected [...]
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New Zealand Swine Flu
Posted on 29. Apr, 2009 by Campbell.
The New Zealand government has moved quickly to respond to cases of Swine Flu in New Zealand. A total of 14 people in New Zealand have tested positive for Influenza A today (Wednesday April 29, 2009) and are being treated as having Swine Flu. As soon as the Government was notified of suspected cases from [...]
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Tourists get chance to rave about NZ
Posted on 12. Dec, 2008 by Campbell.
Tourism New Zealand is going on the road with a world-leading tourism marketing initiative using visitors to spread the word to friends and family through social networking. NZ Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, John Key has launched the new marketing concept that uses a mobile recording studio to capture visitors’ stories about their time [...]
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Telegraph readers say NZ ‘always delivers’
Posted on 26. Nov, 2008 by Campbell.
New Zealand is a destination which always delivers, according to 25,000 readers of the UK Daily Telegraph, who have just voted New Zealand one of their favourite destinations on earth. The paper says, “To coin a phrase from our Antipodean friends, New Zealand has now become the ‘mailman’ for Telegraph readers – it always delivers”. [...]
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‘Youngest Country’ scores 1 million YouTube viewers
Posted on 17. Nov, 2008 by Campbell.
More than 1 million people have watched Tourism New Zealand’s television commercial ‘Youngest Country’ on YouTube in the past year. The number of views of the latest 100% Pure New Zealand commercial reached 1 million earlier this month (November 2008). Another 13,000 people have already watched it since, reflecting the steady stream of viewers the [...]