Queenstown Lakes is making a play for a huge chunk of the International Visitor Levy (IVL) collected at the border.
It's not quite a winter wonderland yet but the Queenstown Lakes skifields have welcomed their first skiers and snowboarders for 2024.
The Remarkables plans to open its learners slopes tomorrow, but Coronet Peak will remain closed.
Please raise your hand if you’ve ever heard a visitor or newcomer saying "I’ve come to Queenstown cause it’s always been my dream to ride the Skyline Gondola".
Queenstown Primary School pupils have taken matters into their own hands when it comes to protecting the environment.
Analysis: What should visiting Aotearoa New Zealand cost your average tourist? The government has suggested raising the price of admission - otherwise known as the international visitor conservation and tourism levy (IVL) - from $35 to $100.
Cardrona Alpine Resort is set for a limited opening this Saturday, June 15.
A potential car thief, some bad drivers and icy mishaps on the usual winter black spots have made for a typical pre-ski season week for Police.
The Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) has released its final report on the helicopter accident which killed three people in October 2018.
Snow guns are going full bore as southern ski fields prepare to welcome onto their slopes.
Fiordland's Homer Tunnel has finally had its $29 million upgrade completed, with the most visual improvement being a new avalanche shelter at its eastern entrance.
It's one of the coldest mornings so far in 2024 for Queenstown Lakes and the region, with temperatures well-below freezing.
Mark Harris, managing director of Queenstown-based New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty, with his post-budget opinion on the property sector
Retirement villages have become big business locally, ranging from comfortable and modern to luxurious holiday resort style, with price tags from around $1 million to $8.5million depending on what retirees can afford.
An ill-equipped Belgian tourist has been located near the Milford Track four days after separating from his party while crossing Dore Pass.
Canadian mountain guide Ken Wylie, who survived a deadly avalanche in the Selkirk Mountains in 2003, is the guest on this week's Outlet Podcast, ahead of his appearance at the Southern Hemisphere Alpine Conference (SHAC) in Wānaka later this week
The Remarks' new Shadow Basin chairlift is almost ready to roll. The $23 million six-seater Doppelmayr chairlift has been installed at the NZSki Queenstown skifield in an epic project over the summer months.
"Trumpian in nature" and "one of the worst pieces of legislation that has been put to this government in decades". That's how Queenstown's deputy mayor Quentin Smith describes the Government's Fast-Track Approvals Bill.
Waka Kotahi has completed work on the $7 million five-legged Mt Iron roundabout.
It's still a hard 'no' from the Coalition Government on any form of Queenstown Lakes bed tax.
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