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After a successful business career in Queenstown, specialising in HR, Maryann Geddes is shifting to Christchurch next month. She tells PHILIP CHANDLER what’s behind the move, recounts her climbing exploits and reveals a special local connection she’ll be retaining
For...
By GUY WILLIAMS
Queenstown's Tourism Workforce Alliance has reached the end of the road, with no immediate prospect of more work in the offing.
Since June, the group involved about 50 tourism workers, who had lost their jobs or were on...
By TRACEY ROXBURGH
Like most good ideas, it started with an old-school Queenstown crew brain
storming over a bottle of whisky.
The story goes, by the time the bottle was finished, long-time mates and
Everything Travel Group founders Nigel Hobbs and former Queenstowner
Callum...
Tori Keating’s got 99 things to do before she’s 50 — and while learning to meditate’s one of
them, she can’t stop long enough to do it. The Kingston resident talks to TRACEY ROXBURGH about why she still feels lazy
Someone,...
TWO more Destination Queenstown staff have been made redundant.
In a statement, DQ interim boss Ann Lockhart says it’s ‘‘with much regret’’ the board’s disestablished the international markets manager roles for both Asia and Western, held, respectively, by Ella Zhang...
By PHILIP CHANDLER
Who hasn’t sung You Are My Sunshine or My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean on Queenstown’s Earnslaw steamer on sailings back from Walter Peak?
Despite its popularity over scores of years, however, the Earnslaw singalong’s become yet another...
By TRACEY ROXBURGH
An Arrowtown charity's run off its feet right now - but the Wakatipu community's swung in behind to support it.
This month a 20-foot storage container, courtesy of AJ Saville Builders, was dropped off on the St John's...
By PHILIP CHANDLER
Even local business leaders aren't immune to job losses in this Covid-19-induced tourism crisis.
Skyline Queenstown commercial manager Craig Douglas is among the 50 per cent-plus of Skyline Enterprises' 1200 or so staff made redundant across its New Zealand...