Media Coverage
Recent National and International tourism media coverage for the West Coast:
March 2025
- Wildfoods Festival (Seven Sharp).
- Punters scoff surreal servings at Hokitika’s Wildfoods Festival (The Press).
- Winning shots showcase the best of Buller’s beauty (Inside Tourism).
- Our Backyard - West Coast feature (Stuff).
- Nice day for a white weka: Rare sighting on West Coast (The Press).
- Rare white weka on West Coast (TVNZ Breakfast).
- New $9m trail expected to boost West Coast tourism (Tourism Ticker).
- West Coast Wildlife Centre invests $3m in new experience (Tourism Ticker).
- Injured penguins facing euthanasia saved by new West Coast home (The Press).
- Kawatiri Coastal Trail to open, boosting West Coast tourism (Inside Tourism).
- Heading Off: The Kawatiri Trail (RNZ).
- Westport - Charleston trail ready for cyclists (Otago Daily Times).
- Blazing a trail - Kawatiri Coastal Trail (The Press).
- Cycle trail opening today - Kawatiri Coastal Trail (Otago Daily Times).
- The surprising region where you might want to look for a job (Stuff).
- What’s it really like to move to the West Coast? (Stuff).
- Six RTO-led groups share $3m from Regional Tourism Boost (Tourism Ticker).
February 2025
- Photographer captures spectacular rātā bloom in predator-free West Coast forest (The Press)
- All the way from Italy, wood and gas fired oven creating pizzas in Reefton (The Press).
- 'Super vibrant' rātā flowering rolls out red carpet in Westland (1News).
- The rātā returns (RNZ)
- The only place in New Zealand you can camp on a glacier (The Australian).
- Huhu uncovered - Wildfoods Festival (The Press)
January 2025
- Cycling the Old Ghost Road, New Zealand’s Best-Kept Secret (Inside Hook)
- West Coast, best coast: The places where our summer has been stunning (Stuff)
- West Coast bucks trend with increase in retail spending (RNZ)
- Where to go to get some sun - Hokitika (Stuff)
- Five of the best classic Kiwi pubs - Woodstock Hotel, Hokitika (RNZ)
- New Zealand towns at their best in summer (Haast)
- The end of the road: The remarkable story of Jackson Bay's demise and rise (The Press)
- Love story inspires new festival (The Press)
- Take a hike - Ten of Aotearoa's best walks - Fox River, Ballroom Overhang (RNZ)