For the first time, five cruise ships will be berthing in Tauranga overnight this season.

Wellington's airport runway extension initiative fails on grounds that travellers are flying to long-haul destinations through Auckland or Christchurch.

Soil that could fill more than 70 Olympic pools is being excavated from the NZCC site as part of the $700m project.

WATCH: Developer Alastair Porter is aiming to build $50 million, 9.8km Queenstown attraction.

An additional grant on top of an existing subsidy brought the $88 million Disney film Pete's Dragon to New Zealand.

The Green Party would nearly double the tax foreign tourists pay at the border to fund conservation efforts and regional tourism.

New Zealand accommodation providers had their biggest-ever influx for a June month this year.

Outgoing Tourism New Zealand chief executive Kevin Bowler says the industry needs to be careful about how it imposes any extra charges for visitors.

Spending on electronic cards rose strongly last month, led by the biggest monthly gain in hospitality expenditure since November.

Heritage experts are decrying plans to demolish a prominent South Island hotel.

An application has been made to demolish a heritage Timaru building to make way for a $40 million-$42m redevelopment.

A new development joined to a historic hotel is set to become NZ's most expensive new hotel room rate at $10k a night.

WeChat is making its mark in New Zealand with more than 400,000 tourists using the technology to make payments.

Regional New Zealand gives travellers an "authentic" experience.

Our economy is dominated by small firms and the Business Herald is putting the spotlight on some of them in a new feature. Today: Canopy Tours in Rotorua.

A business-savvy traveller from China has chosen Masterton as his new home and the base of a new tour group company. The father of

Expect the unexpected when it comes to tourist comments handled by Buller visitors' centre staff and tourism operators.

Booming migration extended its run of posting new records in June, though economists say it may have peaked.

Chinese travellers born in the 1990s are heading out of the country and are spending up large.

What Grant Webster did at Tourism Holdings to turn the business around following a slump during the global financial crisis.

Luxury tourism is booming but lodge owners say luring local staff is a problem and another operator says NZ must broaden marketing.

Campervan operator Tourism Holdings has dobbed in customers to the police after real time monitoring equipment found evidence of dangerous driving.

Christchurch has always been dubbed the most English city outside of England, but the earthquakes claimed many buildings promoting that brand.

A century of Boeing: Its first international order was from New Zealand, now Boeing is the world's largest plane-maker.​

Domestic tourist number dropped last month, offsetting a gain in overseas visitor numbers.

Fathom is the one-ship Carnival experiment in "social-impact travel" for travelers who want to make a difference.

One real estate agent is worried that Airbnb is taking much needed rental properties off the Auckland market.

Have you ever wonder what place will give you the most bang for your buck?

A Kiwi hotel and island have been named among the world's best by Travel and Leisure magazine.

Singapore Airlines is hiring staff in Wellington for its service which will links the capital, Canberra and Singapore.