Spending by overseas tourists is forecast to grow by 18 per cent to $6.5 billion in 2019, says a government report.

An ex-bank worker's gamble has become an adventure tourism company with 17 staff that is targeting turnover of $5 million this year.

British news website Daily Mail Online says New Zealand's claims to be clean and green are "pure manure".

"If there's a dent to that reputation that dent has the potential to hurt everybody ... " Tourism Industry Association chief Martin Snedden's blunt message.

Is there not at least a possibility the convention centre SkyCity is building in Auckland will turn out to be as future-proof as the windjammer and the rotary-dial telephone?

Auckland's new primary cruise ship terminal was opened yesterday in a 103-year-old wharf shed.

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.

Auckland's $400 million International Convention Centre has come a step closer amid heated accusations that MPs failed to vote with their conscience in backing a law change which will allow increased gambling facilities at SkyCity.

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.

The New Zealand government and SkyCity Entertainment Group are giving themselves another fortnight to cut a deal on the terms for the casino and hotel operator to build a $402 million convention centre in Auckland in exchange for regulatory concessions.