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4/02/2012
Tourism NZ cheers 2.6 million visitors

Tourism NZ cheers 2.6 million visitors

Last year finished with New Zealand visitor numbers cracking the 2.6 million mark for the first »»

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Nzone wants more flights

Nzone wants more flights

QUEENSTOWN skydive firm Nzone wants to increase the number of flights it can run each day. The »»

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Tourism on the mend from quake

Tourism on the mend from quake

QUEENSTOWN’S tourism industry is beginning to recover from the impact of the Christchurch »»

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Queenstown airport's night flight fight

Queenstown airport's night flight fight

The New Zealand pilots’ union is flagging safety fears in opposing Queenstown Airport’s »»

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Here for the holidays

Here for the holidays

Greytown family the Players touched down in Queenstown last week in time for Christmas during the »»

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Jetstar expands Queenstown services just in time for Christmas

Jetstar expands Queenstown services just in time for Christmas

Holidaymakers have arrived in Queenstown on Jetstar’s inaugural flights from Wellington and »»

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Currency law catches out hotels

Some Queenstown hotels are being caught out by a little-publicised new law requiring licences for changing foreign currency.  Currency transactions now fall under the Financial Services Providers (Registration & Dispute Resolution) Act, a law enforced by the Financial Markets Authority, a »»

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Tourism bosses’ long-hop tax fears

Tourism bosses’ long-hop tax fears

A Queenstown tourism chief fears a green tax hike on long haul flights from the UK could set a »»

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Big tick for Queenstown-Milford monorail

Big tick for Queenstown-Milford monorail

The Department of Conservation has approved in principle a monorail to speed up the journey »»

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Davies has tunnel vision for Milford

Davies has tunnel vision for Milford

A Queenstown tourism heavyweight says a controversial tunnel proposal will arrest a serious decline »»

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