New accommodation stats show total guest nights for 2009 were down one per cent from the year before, but there was a 4 per cent rise in December.

Decapitated bodies dumped on the streets, drug-war shootings and regular attacks on police are all part and parcel of life in Mexico.

The hotel industry is increasingly concerned at the power wielded by internet sites such as TripAdvisor, on which often excoriating - yet anonymous - notices are posted that can destroy an establishment's reputation.

A New Zealand luxury lodge has been recognised for its consistent high standards by a century-old English high society magazine.

A tour operator is under fire for using fake Maori to attract tourists from cruise ships docking in Tauranga.

Big-spending overseas millionaires' superyachts are being turned away from Auckland because of lack of decent berths.

Jaqueline Smith put her hand up for a swim in Kelly Tarlton's Shark Cage and was relieved it wasn't bitten off.

Alanah May Eriksen travels to the island nation just a couple of months after the September tsunami which destroyed the southeast coast of Upolu and discovers the tourist industry is in full swing.

A sporting disaster involving football superstar David Beckham was the wrong event at the wrong time and for the wrong price, a review has found.

A field of local and international card sharps are honing their competitive poker skills for a Auckland’s first big tournament of the year.

The Independent's Simon Calder says it's not too soon for cruise ships to return to the benighted nation.

It may take effort to get to, and be reminiscent of a gentler age, but Great Barrier Island appears to have survived the recession.

Bishop Brian Tamaki has riled Waitomo locals with his commercialisation plans for Te Kopua marae.