Travel
Pre-departure RATs and Traveller Declaration frustrate tourists
If you've headed overseas lately, you'll know the process isn't as straightforward as it used to be - with pre-departure RAT tests and the New Zealand Traveller Declaration top of a list of bugbears… Audio
Calling Home: Ashleigh Stewart in Toronto
Investigative journalist Ashleigh Stewart lives in downtown Toronto with her husband Stuart McCready, but more recently she has been stationed in Ukraine covering the war there. She's Calling Home… Audio
The 'every-single-street' movement
No one has completed all 39,137 streets of Greater London, but in 2014, Noelle Poulson walked every street within London's congestion zone. She joins the show to discuss why she did it and what she… Audio
Friendship Force:international peace through homestays
Friendship force is an international organisation that hopes to bring peace through friendships and homestays. They have 10 clubs in New Zealand and they're launching a global initiative to get the… Audio
Attracting overseas visitors a challenge for tourism industry
The tourism industry is preparing for a harder sell to attract overseas visitors. More than 450 tourism operators confronted the changes affecting their industry during the online TRENZ Hui on… Audio
Passport application costs go up today
The cost of applying for an adult passport is going up by $8 today to $199, and by another $17 over the next two years.
Queenstown Airport welcomes first Aus flight in nearly a year
Touch down! Queenstown Airport has officially welcomed its first trans Tasman flight in more than 300 days.
But today's Qantas flight from Sydney had its hurdles with thunderstorms delaying take off… Video, Audio
After nearly a year, Queenstown opens its borders to Australia
Queenstown is ready to roll out the welcome mat after 330 days without a scheduled international flight.
Calling Home: Yanai Postelnik in Devon
Yanai Postelnik could never have imagined how his life was going to change when he arrived at Gaia House in Devon for a silent meditation retreat in 1990. He returned to Gaia House to work in 1991… Audio
Auckland weather and traffic update
It's been a wild weather day in Auckland which has impacted on travel around the city.
Nick Truebridge has the details.
Video, Audio
Auckland weather snarls traffic as harbour bridge, ferries limited
It was a frightening and fatal start to Friday due to wild weather. A woman is dead after being crushed by a tree in Cambridge, Levin is battered by what locals call a tornado, and golf ball sized… Video, Audio
Calling Home: Gillian Bremner in Botswana
Gillian Bremner was looking for something different when she retired from her role as CEO at Presbyterian Support Otago. Little did she know she would soon be running a multi-tiered tourism company in… Audio
Border open for tourists not a quick fix for industry
As the prime minister announced yesterday, New Zealand's borders will fully open two months earlier than had previously been planned. So we thought we'd check in with tourism operators to find out if… Audio
Cruise ships, travellers coming back as borders reopen
With the border reopening earlier than expected, cruise ships and travellers from all countries will be able to enter New Zealand again, Flight Centre travel group's general manager of Product… Audio
The new normal for tourist operators around the world
The Prime Minister has announced. she's bringing forward the full re-opening of our borders, from October to July. Travel operator Robyn Galloway's noticed that travel is very different now, with… Audio
Prince Harry's tourism sustainability drive inspired by Māori values
Prince Harry has launched a new campaign inspired by Māori values.
Calling Home: Tjalve Mollison-Sjöberg in Gothenburg
Life in Gothenburg is a world away from Tjalve Mollison-Sjöberg's isolated upbringing on the edge of the Kahurangi National Park. The Karamea native, who lives in a central Gothenburg suburb… Audio
Have passport, will travel: young Kiwis head on their OE
Growing numbers of young New Zealanders are heading overseas as the borders open. But will a pandemic OE be slightly different? Audio
Niue ready to open travel bubble with New Zealand
Niue, which has had no community spread of Covid-19, is to begin a quarantine free travel bubble with Aotearoa on 28 June (NZT).
Court rules Qantas outsourcing ground crew during pandemic was illegal
Qantas has lost its appeal against an Australian Federal Court decision that found the outsourcing of about 2000 ground crew workers was illegal. But the company now plans to appeal...
