It’s official, New Zealand is no longer 100% Pure. Tourism New Zealand recently launched a new advertising campaign that pushes the 100% pure emphasis off of the country and onto the individual that visits it. Shame then that Anna Feris didn’t feel 100% Pure when she was in NZ shooting the movie Yogi Bear. She…
Yes that’s right – Kaikoura, not Kandahar. Kaikoura is a popular seaside town in New Zealand and a setting-off point for whale watching trips. But Kaikoura’s rep has been taking a hit recently, what with visitors getting badly beaten up by mobs on the streets and seals being clubbed to death. Now we hear that…
The United States rowing team has just had an unpleasant brush with New Zealand’s spiralling crime problem. On Saturday a member of the team had a number of personal items stolen after the World Rowing Championships at *Lake Karapiro. A Police press released managed to turn what could’ve been a PR clunker into a ‘gold…
(scroll to bottom of page for update) Despite the two recent deaths and the call for the wearing of helmets to be made compulsory (see our blog yesterday) the manager of the Mount Hutt skiifield has said there will be no changes to the off piste policy on Mount Hutt. Skiiers are basically out there…
There has been another tragic Adventure Tourism related death in New Zealand. In an incident very reminiscent of the drowning of British tourist Emily Jordan, a 58-year-old American tourist, Caroline Lackey, has died after she became trapped under a rock whilst rafting at the Te Hoe section of the Mohaka River yesterday. http://www.wkyt.com/video/?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=4468480&flvUri=&partnerclipid= The trip…
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