The Lord of the Rings
With ideas to diversify the tourism-dependent Queenstown economy on the bubble since
Covid, many believe a film studio’s more vital than ever to help us capture more filmmaking opportunities. Among them is renowned Kiwi producer Murray Francis, who tells PHILIP...
By PHILIP CHANDLER
An Auckland firm prepared to pay $14 million for a farm near Glenorchy, famous for film shoots, can’t settle due to a legal fish-hook.
The Station at Waitiri Ltd committed to buying Jim Veint’s 257-hectare Arcadia Station, at
Paradise,...
By MATTHEW MCKEW
There's been movement, finally.
Department of Conservation’s (DoC) dropped the news it’ll install a toilet on Queenstown’s Ben Lomond to stop caught-short hikers causing a mess.
It comes a year after the mountain was dubbed ‘‘faecal peak’’ for the...
By PHILIP CHANDLER
A Queenstown tourism company that missed out on Covid relief funding has produced A Covid Fairy Tale YouTube video to try to turn a negative into a
positive.
Shotover Canyon Swing had applied for $300,000 in strategic tourism assets
protection...
By TRACEY ROXBURGH
After 11 long years, the gates to Queenstown’s Deer Park Heights will lift again for the public from next week.
The iconic Peninsula Hill, at Kelvin Heights, has been in the Mee family since the 1960s and, till 2009,...
United by a passion for bikes, the six-member Columb family's successfully built New Zealand's original off-road tour company from humble beginnings. As Off Road Adventures celebrates its 30th birthday, Philip Chandler takes a ride on the wild side
Two German visitors to Queenstown...