Shotover Canyon Swing is going ‘full swing’ on Thursday 17 September 2020 to raise funds for St John Ambulance and raise awareness for mental health.
Action Helicopters’ Heli Glenorchy will take control of the Queenstown-based operation from today.
Revenue from the operator’s NZ jump sites has been hit hard by the pandemic.
A bumper first half and swift action to cut costs and pause capex saw Queenstown Airport Corporation post an 8% increase in profit in its full year results.
Queenstown Airport is celebrating 85 years since it began services.
Covid-19 has marked a break in revenue growth for Queenstown-based Skyline Enterprises after a decade of solid gains.
The Sugar Bowl Express chairlift at The Remarkables will open this Saturday 1 August, giving visitors lift access to the Sugar Bowl Basin for the first time this season.
Will Otago tourism swing in behind a new international airport at Tarras?
In a first for Queenstown Lakes, the district’s two RTOs have teamed up to launch a local campaign.
Uncertainty surrounds Skyline Enterprises’ plans and public funding has been sought.
Queenstown Airport saw 9912 passenger movements in May 2020, down 93.3% from the same month in 2019.
The Govt is investing the cash in Fiordland’s Homer Tunnel, an Arrowtown museum, and a Balclutha hub.
The resort saw a sharp uptick in occupancy for the first week of the school holidays, almost doubling from the previous week’s results, according to figures from STR.
The Remarkables will continue its daily operations daily for a further one more week after a busier-than-expected school holiday period.
CEO Ian Jackson says forward bookings are good but Covid has halved staff numbers on the operator’s ski fields.
Lifting restrictions on domestic travel gave Pro Invest Group the confidence to open a new hotel at Queenstown.
Mayor Jim Boult says limited health care capacity in the region would be a “significant” worry if an outbreak occurred.
The Remarkables would be open daily for two weeks during the July school holidays until Sunday 19 July, then weekends only.
Queenstown’s newest hotel is preparing to open its doors to guests.
Augusta Capital’s annual net loss of $27m was mainly driven by write downs in the value of two tourism properties.
Prime minister Jacinda Ardern and tourism minister Kelvin Davis visited the Queenstown Lakes District on Friday spending the morning at Wayfare’s Cardrona Alpine Resort, near Wanaka, before a tour in the afternoon of its TSS Earnslaw steamer boat in Queenstown.
Prime minister Jacinda Ardern, tourism minister Kelvin Davis and Tourism New Zealand chief executive Stephen England-Hall will attend today’s opening of the ski season at Cardrona Alpine Resort.
Winter Games NZ has branded this year’s event ‘Obsidian’ and confirmed it will be on from 10-20 August.
The council will take $445k from its tourism promotion budget, meaning less money for the region’s destination marketing bodies.
The Kia Kaha Queenstown Lakes Hub will continue with its immigration support services and also include skills training and tenancy support.
After years of international growth, operators are pinning hopes on the domestic market but losses appear inevitable.
“This is great news for tourism and those wanting to hit the slopes,” says the airline.
It will take Queenstown Airport at least five years to return to pre-Covid activity levels.
The collapse of tourism has been like “turning the ignition key off” for Queenstown, says the resort’s mayor, Jim Boult.
The Overseas Investment Office has given the green light to QT Lakeview Partnership’s development agreement with Queenstown Lakes District Council.
Economic activity will contract by 23.3% in the Queenstown Lakes region resulting in almost 8000 job losses, according to a new report commissioned by the council.
The pop up hub would provide information and advice on immigration, repatriation, employment, finance, wellbeing and welfare.
The assets were supposed to be the foundation properties in a new tourism fund.
Ngāi Tahu Tourism is restarting two of its iconic tourism operations.
The reopening of Eichardt’s and Spire hotels in Queenstown will be unaffected by problems affecting owner Andrew Cox’s other companies, including Website Travel.
Air New Zealand will resume its Wellington-Queenstown route on 28 May, in time for Queen’s Birthday weekend.
Mayor Boult takes a dawn leap off Kawarau Bridge to mark NZ’s move to alert level 2.
“We’ll be strongly encouraging Kiwis to support our tourism sector and to visit friends and family,” says Air NZ’s CEO.
Only Glacier Southern Lakes Helicopters at Queenstown is staying open.
The company is shrinking itself for slow-growth recovery but wants to keep two major Queenstown projects going.
The aborted launch of a $70m tourism property fund has “strained” the balance sheet of NZX-listed Augusta Capital, which is seeking $45m from investors.
The operator is cutting more than half of its 1200 staff as it restructures the group.
New Zealanders will soon be able to enjoy high-end tourism experiences that are usually reserved for the global elite, says a luxury operator.
Queenstown Airport Corporation will submit a revised Statement of Intentto Queenstown Lakes District Council in October 2020.
A new fund established by the Wakatipu Community Foundation in response to the Covid-19 crisis to support the district’s most vulnerable residents will help address central government funding gaps, says Queenstown mayor Jim Boult.
Around 75 tourism and hospitality businesses are in line for a QLDC rent reprieve.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council is reminding track and trail users to stick to Covid-19 lockdown rules, especially social distancing.
The operator says the wage subsidy has allowed it to keep most of its staff in place.
The extraordinary growth in passengers to Queenstown Airport has come to a shuddering halt as Air New Zealand cut the resort from its lockdown domestic timetable.
A lockdown track etiquette reminder has been issued by Queenstown Lakes District Council.
