Maori news

New Zealand’s newest wellness destination Wai Ariki Hot Springs and Spa has opened on the shores of Lake Rotorua following a grand opening ceremony attended ... More

After five years of planning, geotechnical preparation, COVID challenges and construction, Wai Ariki Hot Springs and Spa in Rotorua – the New Zealand city famous ... More

As a new year approaches, Spa Opportunities editor Jane Kitchen highlights 19 of the most exciting spas set to open in 2019. 1. Raison d’Etre ... More

An art gallery in Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand has a surprise in store for visitors in the way of a seemingly still portrait that moves ... More

A new NZ$30m (US$22m, €18m, £16.5m) luxury spa and wellness centre in Rotorua, New Zealand, will incorporate Maori culture, with a focus on thermal water ... More

Weta Workshop – the special effects and prop company behind such epics as The Lord of the Rings and Avatar – have thrown their weight ... More

Increasing crossovers between work and leisure are creating new challenges for hospitality designers, says Conran & Partners' Tina Norden, in an interview with CLAD. "With ... More

The National Museum and Dialogue Centre in Szczecin, Poland has been declared the World Building of the Year 2016. Polish architecture studio Robert Konieczny KWK ... More

Sir Peter Jackson continues to contribute to visitor experiences in his home country, with the New Zealand native now planning a digital project utilising augmented ... More

The Japan Tourism Agency is asking Japanese spa operators to allow foreign tourists with tattoos into onsens, according to a report in The Japan Times. ... More

High-profile international rugby will return to America in November, as New Zealand, Ireland and the Maori All Blacks descend on Chicago for ‘The Rugby Weekend’. ... More

The five-star Keemala resort, which will open in Phuket in October 2015, has been designed using storytelling to create its own folklore. The designers have ... More

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced the government will invest NZ$350,000 (US$256,000, €230,000, £163,000) towards a multi-million dollar spa development which is expected to ... More

New Zealand’s opportunities for spa resort development, especially within the natural hot spring region of Rotorua, are outlined by Steve Chadwick – Mayor of Rotorua ... More

New Zealand’s Ngati Awa Maori is looking to set up a museum in the North Island town of Whakatane dedicated to the tribe’s history. The ... More

Mons in Belgium and Pilsen in the Czech Republic have kicked off festivities for a year of special events after they were named joint Capital ... More

Steve Chadwick, the Mayor of Rotorua, New Zealand, has been invited to address the Global Spa & Wellness Summit (GSWS) 2014 in Morocco in September ... More

An area in Christchurch, New Zealand – decimated by an earthquake in 2011 – could be about to get a major new attraction inspired and ... More

A massage therapist in New Zealand has been censured after sending a 16-year old client to a healer from a Maori tribe to cleanse her ... More

Plans are in the works for a NZ$25m (£12.6m, US$20.6m, €15m) hot pools and spa complex in Queenstown, New Zealand expected to draw more than ... More

So Spa has taken its first step into the Pacific region with the opening of a new So Spa at the Sofitel Auckland Viaduct Harbour. ... More

A museum telling the social history of one of New Zealand's first cities has reopened in Dunedin following a four-year NZ$37.5m (US$31.69m, 24.21m euro, £19.64m) ... More

A French project team has travelled to New Zealand this week to research work for an indigenous Maori garden to be opened in Moselle Conseil ... More