Tourism Holdings' United States operation is about to expand with the launch there of the Britz brand.

Paris has launched a new kind of tourist guide: not a guide for tourists, but a guide to different types of tourists.

Conservation Minister is an enviable job. As lord of the estate you get to be helicoptered into grand and lovely parts of the country to meet good people, release endangered species and talk sense in defence of pesticides.

New Zealand's monthly inbound migration rose to a four-year high in June as more kiwis stayed at home amid the dwindling attraction of Australia's slowing economy.

Unemployment is continuing to dog Auckland and hinder its economic recovery as employers express reluctance to take on new staff.

Branding countries is just as important as branding consumer products.

A tourism revival may offset coal mining job losses as Queensland grapples with the highest unemployment in almost a decade.

Editorial: The SkyCity convention centre project is a gamble for all involved. But the die is cast, so let's back the country to get it right.

New Zealanders are split down the middle over dual proposals to cut a tunnel or monorail track through parts of Fiordland which contain some of the country's greatest walking tracks.

The woman behind a controversial $100 million waterfront hotel bid in Dunedin says she will compromise to secure a deal with the Dunedin City Council.

The company bidding to build a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin is taking its fight to the Environment Court.

Visitor arrivals in May were up 9 per cent from the same month last year, Statistics New Zealand said today.

More than a third of the country's public lavatories have no soap and some even lack running water.

Controversial plans for a $100 million 27-level Dunedin hotel have been knocked back.

Scarfie favourite, Dunedin's Captain Cook Tavern, could close by the middle of this month.

A New York Times write-up has lauded Auckland as a must-see travel destination for its vibrancy and homegrown products.

Former Fonterra chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden has apologised to China, its people and Government for telling an audience never to trust the Chinese.

A cruise industry consultant says New Zealand risks missing out on most of the boom in the sector by not giving passengers what they want.

Tourism New Zealand is hoping to double the number of international tourists who come here to play golf as part of a new strategy to attract higher spending visitors.

Sometimes it takes an outside eye to reveal the full extent of a change in circumstance.