When newlyweds, Toni and John Glover bought the Kinloch Wilderness Retreat, their neighbours put bets on whether they’d last out the year. Toni had left a career in the U.K. as a high-flying sales and marketing director for a tour operator travelling all over the world. “I saw a lot of properties…
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With connections to the transport industry since the 1920s, Appellation Wine Tours has a long history of showcasing fine wines, local sights and heritage attractions. Having successfully switched 80 per cent of Nelson’s public bus fleet to electric in 2022, the owners were inspired to think how…
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Queenstown is a place of extraordinary natural beauty. Surrounded by breathtaking landscapes, you're never far from pristine wilderness. This unique environment is not just a backdrop for our adventures; it's a living, breathing ecosystem that we're privileged to enjoy. As stewards of this…
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A passion to preserve the Queenstown Lakes for future tamariki (children) and mokopuna (grandchildren), has been the driving force behind Mana Tāhuna Charitable Trust's focus on restoring and regenerating biodiversity around Whakatipu basin. A small seed of hope, planted by whānau Māori ki Tāhuna…
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Gibbston - home to some of Otago wine region’s oldest vineyards with an ongoing story of award-winning pinot noir. One of those is multi-award-winning Peregrine Wines. Driving east along State Highway 6 to Gibbston, known as the ‘Valley of the Vines', you’re surrounded by rugged schist mountains…
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How Queenstown's regenerative tourism movement began and why this matters Queenstown has long been home to adventurers – from early Māori venturing inland to find greenstone to European settlers who arrived seeking gold or land to farm, it’s in the DNA of our people and place. In the 1950s…
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