New legislation introduced to improve sustainability of freedom camping
Travel News compiled by Mel Fernandez
New steps to address the environmental and social impact of freedom camping have been taken with the introduction of...
Your rights if your Air New Zealand flight is rescheduled
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Compiled by Mel Fernandez, melfernandez@xtra.co.nz
Air New Zealand has today it will be operating a reduced schedule, meaning flight changes are in the pipeline...
The taste of Pampanga in Auckland
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Nostalgia for HomeCooked food drives expansion plans
By Mel Fernandez
AUCKLAND – Last year, in the shadow of an unpredictable pandemic and encountering an...
Aucklanders expected to leave city in droves in pre-Christmas exodus
By Amy Williams, RNZ
Photo credit: Helen Bilkova (dreamstime.com)
Aucklanders are expected to leave the city in droves in the week before Christmas, unleashed after four...
Kerikeri’s Magic Cottages
(above - photo credit: Magic Cottages)
By Dr Lilia Sevillano
There is a little slice of paradise tucked away about 20 minutes outside of Kerikeri town...
What would sustainable tourism really mean for New Zealand? Let’s ask the river
By Jason Paul Mika, Senior Lecturer, School of Management, Massey University and Regina Scheyvens, Professor of Development Studies, Massey University
Photo credit: Drums of the Pacific...
Keeping Asia engaged with “100% Pure New Zealand”
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By Hafsa Ahmed, Lecturer, Lincoln University
New Zealand’s biggest markets lie in Asia, from tourism to exports.
Before Covid hit, tourism was New Zealand’s biggest export...
Australian couple on ‘cloud nine’ following skydive proposal
Sydney doctor Nurojan Vivekanandamoorthy (video credit: NZONE Skydive - Wellington)
Home page photo caption: Sydney bride-to-be Suge Sritharan in the skies above Queenstown with NZONE...
Luxury conference bookings surge at iconic hotel
New Zealand’s multi-million dollar luxury travel, conferences and group tour market has responded quickly to the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble according to an...
NZ tourism can use the disruption of COVID-19 to drive sustainable change — and...
By James Higham, Professor of Tourism, University of Otago
Photo courtesy of Tourism New Zealand
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s second tourism report urges the...
