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Visitors and businesses can now contribute directly to Queenstown Lakes' planned regenerative future through a pioneering community fund.

When your local student pub isn’t operating to its full potential you buy it and fix the problem, right?

QRC’s Machine Learning Tutor and Tech Ambassador, believes that artificial intelligence (AI) technology can help alleviate some pressure on Queenstown’s hospitality and tourism industry.

What makes you buy something? What makes you behave in a certain way? Like all good marketers, Dave Hockly knows the answers to those questions. But what really interests him is using cold, hard data to dig down into the detail of people’s decisions, adapt marketing strategies and measure the results and revenue.

Queenstown’s planned $6 million digital studio will provide a blank canvas, and also modern-day brushes and paint, for filmmakers, game designers, content creators, and a host of other creative and corporate projects.

With the weather cooling down we’ll soon be thinking about get aways for a warmer quick break. The sleepy, southern end of Australia’s Gold Coast, Coolangatta, is a great place to head, and its nothing like its manic Surfers cousin. Coolongatta is chilled, local and relaxing where you can walk around barefoot with beach hair for a few days.

Discussions have been underway with tech companies and investors keen to back entrepreneur Roger Sharp and not-for-profit Whakatipu Hangarau Trust’s bid to establish a tech development agency for the Queenstown Lakes region.

T I K K I Studio is a sewing studio based in Lower Shotover that runs workshops and sewing lessons with sustainability at its heart. It has recently expanded into a co-working space for anyone needing to hot desk.

A former Queenstown bartender is nearing the end of an epic walk from one end of the country to another to raise money and awareness for men’s mental health.

Contractors for Waka Kotahi have drilled in 182 steel bolts to help secure the 13,000 tonnes schist rock Yates Feature on the Nevis Bluff

It’s all change at Queenstown’s Southern Discoveries as one of the country’s most experienced tourism professionals retires and an industry stalwart steps up.

A Queenstown community hub facility is a step closer after the Whakatipu Community Hub Charitable Trust (WCHCT) secured a peppercorn rent on public land behind Countdown supermarket, Frankton.

As the new Shadow Spokesperson for Tourism, I’m really excited to work with the country’s tourism industry to show off all the amazing things our country has to offer.

Luke Harrold has secured the silver medal at the World Rookie Tour Freeski Slopestyle finals held in Italy.

Long before it was fashionable for restaurants and destinations to sell themselves around ‘story’ an innovative Queenstown company was doing just that, creating ‘magic’ in the process.

Tech solutions could help to alleviate staff shortages and improve productivity for Queenstown Lake’s struggling hospitality and tourism sectors.

Queenstown's Alpine Aqualand will reopen on weekends once again from this Saturday, 1 April, with free hydroslides to mark the occasion.

Police have confirmed a person has died after a workplace incident in Jack's Point.

They may have been dubbed “little old ladies in tennis shoes”, but without them and their band of environmentalist supporters Queenstown would not have its beautiful downtown Gardens reserve preserved as it is today.

The 11th annual Aotearoa Surf Film Festival took place in Queenstown and Wanaka last week. The event celebrated the best of surf culture and cinema, as well as connections to the environment. A curated selection of local and international surf feature films, documentaries and short films were showcased, and one in particular showed off some of what our region has to offer.