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Kiwi interest in US travel drops off

Kiwis are less interested in travelling to the US despite the weakening of the greenback, while Americans are interested in one-way flights out.

Guest night records continue to be broken

Hotel accommodation is being squeezed hard by record tourism levels with guest night records continuing to be broken.

Rotorua Airport gets $4.9m makeover

Passengers travelling to and from Rotorua Airport are set to arrive at a fully refurbished terminal.

Auckland tourism spend up 9 pc

The tourism spend for Auckland is estimated at $7.4 billion for the year to September 2016 - a 9 per cent increase on last year.

Latest new airline to land in Auckland

Competition on the Auckland-Hong Kong route will heat up with the arrival of Hong Kong Airlines later this week.

When Antarctica came to Otago

This month marks a decade since icebergs thrust Otago into the world spotlight, ODT illustrations editor Stephen Jaquiery recalls how it played out.

Aussie tourist's Queenstown rampage

Tourist drank a bottle of vodka before throwing punches, biting a man and abusing and assaulting police in eight-hour Queenstown rampage.

Dreamworld: crisis management disaster

In any crisis event which results in loss of life, making contact with victims and their families should be a top priority.

Emirates superjumbo touches down in Christchurch

From today Emirates will operate an all-A380 super jumbo fleet in New Zealand boosting capacity to 2500 seats a day.

Stars in bid to boost tourism from India

Air New Zealand says direct flights to India would require a heavy fuel load.

Dreamworld ride had 'flaw': ex-employee

While he may have harboured his concerns the longest, Jon Armstrong isn't the first person to express fears over the safety of the rides at the theme park.

Dreamworld: Park will reopen on Friday

Dreamworld is set to reopen on Friday after a horror accident killed four people on one of the theme park's rides.

Tourism wants more of GST windfall

New Zealand has reaped $14.5 billion from overseas visitors and a tourism group wants the government to reinvest more of the tax they pay.

Fatal ride: 'We didn't feel unsafe'

Kiwi Hayley King rode Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapids ride yesterday, just hours before the accident that killed four people.

Pair let group go first on Dreamworld ride

A Christchurch man has told of his close call with the ill-fated ride after his group let the victims go ahead of them minutes before the four were killed.

Fatal ride 'malfunctioned a week ago'

A Kiwi mum who visited the theme park for her daughter's birthday says the ride involved in yesterday's tragedy malfunctioned when they visited last week.

Watch NZH Focus: Record breaking Tourism NZ

Tourism earnings have soared to edge out dairy as New Zealand's top export earner for the first time since 2010. Spending by international tourists grew by almost 20 per cent on the previous year while domestic tourism spending grew by 7.4 per cent giving the sector a $3.8 billion increase on last year.

Tourism overtakes dairy as top earner

Tourism earnings have soared to edge out dairy as New Zealand's top export earner for the first time since 2010.