Wine | Radio New Zealand
19 June 2023
New Zealander John Barker has become the first person in the Southern Hemisphere to be elected as head of influential international wine organisation, Radio New Zealand reports.
Barker was named as the next director general…
Agriculture | Japan Times (The)
28 May 2019
In a report for The Japan Times, journalist Charlotte Greenfield talks to Dave Harper, a farmer in the scenic Canterbury region, where his painstakingly bred flock of lambs is grazing not on grass, but…
New Zealand | New Zealand Herald | Telegraph (The)
1 December 2007
NZ has been voted the world’s best holiday destination by readers of Britain’s Daily Telegraph. Around 30,000 readers took part in the annual survey, which is the largest independent analysis of British travellers. Second and third…
New Zealand | Discovery Channel | National Geographic | NewZealand.com
1 May 2007
Tourism NZ has teamed up with Google to develop its own official ‘layer’ on Google Earth, in a world first for a tourism authority. Google Earth is a searchable tool for geographic information that combines satellite…
New Zealand | People's Daily
22 August 2006
International visitors to NZ are expected to grow by 4% per annum to reach 3.1 million in 2012, according to a report by the Tourism Ministry. The main contributors to the growth are likely…
Business | Lonely Planet | New York Times (The) | NewZealand.com | Webby Award
13 June 2006
Exponents Tourism NZ’s consumer website newzealand.com, designed by Shift, has won the Webby award for best tourism website in the world for a second time. Known as the Oscars of the internet,…