Media Coverage
Recent National and International tourism media coverage for the West Coast:
January 2024
- Going for it: A tenacious lady, an awesome vehicle and accessible trails(The Press)
- 7 Of The Quirkiest Towns In New Zealand (World Atlas)
- From Ōmāpere to Riverton: These are NZ's most underrated towns (1News)
December 2023
- 7 EPIC South Island Destinations – The BEST Places to Visit on the South Island, NZ (Destinationless Travel)
- Wētā Workshop celebrates opening of experience center for Pounamu Pathway (Blooloop)
- Moana (Kia Ora Magazine)
- Retail worker goes tiny to get on property ladder (Stuff)
- Mike Yardley: World heritage wilderness in South Westland (Newstalk ZB)
- Gary's Picks - West Coast (NZ Today / RV Lifestyle Magazine)
- Pilgrimage to the West Coast (NZ Today / RV Lifestyle Magazine)
- Paparoa National Park's Pike29 Memorial Track (NZ Today / RV Lifestyle Magazine)
- Kawatiri Coastal Trail (NZ Today / RV Lifestyle Magazine)
- Alpine forest to moonlight tops (NZ Today / RV Lifestyle Magazine)
- White Heron Sanctuary Tours (Seven Sharp)
- 158-year-old West Coast pub expands its brewery - Woodstock Hotel (The Press)
- Pounamu Pathway opening (1News, TVNZ Breakfast, Tourism Ticker, The Press, NZHerald, RNZ)
- West Coast dominates top experiences on visitor app (Tourism Ticker, Inside Tourism)
- Summer on the Coast (The Motor Caravanner Magazine)
- Making tracks on the West Coast (The Motor Caravanner Magazine)
- Karamea village hotel owner celebrates 40 years in business (The Press)
November 2023
- The Westport woman putting an award-winning twist on the classic Kiwi pie (This NZ Life)
- The Great New Zealand Road Trip: The business tycoon helping to transform a South Island town (NZHerald)
- New Zealand's Hidden Gems: 7 Must-See Off-the-Beaten-Path Spots - Hokitika (Travel Noire)
- Paparoa environmental services on track for sustainable public access to the great New Zealand outdoors (NZ Entrepreneur Magazine)
- Nesting season looks promising for critically endangered kotuku (RNZ)
- Travel Managers Agents enjoy stunning famil on West Coast (Travel Weekly)
- On yer bike - featuring West Coast trails (The Motor Caravanner Magazine)
- Poutini Ngāi Tahu bless giant sculpture of their tīpuna, Tūhuru (NZHerald)
- DWC restarts ‘Pretty great, actually’ campaign for summer (Tourism Ticker)
- West Coast summer campaign underway (Inside Tourism)
- Tourism operators, farmers join forces for environment (Tourism Ticker)
- Tourism businesses and farmers join forces with environmental initiative (Inside Tourism)
- $7.8m upgrade to Karamea's Ōparara Basin complete (The Press)
- New Zealand’s wild west is stunning and untouched (Sydney Morning Herlad)
- Best travel experiences of 2023: Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific – Okarito (Sydney Morning Herald)
- The Best Places to Go in Australia, New Zealand & the South Pacific in 2024 - Pounamu Pathway (Conde Nast Traveler)
- The surprising New Zealand small towns trending this summer - Haast (Stuff)
- Ōparara Basin waharoa unveiled (Inside Tourism, Tourism Ticker)
- Road Trip New Zealand: Top of the South Island highlights (Karryon)
October 2023
- Echoes of Buller’s glory days (NZME newspapers)
- Nature’s splendour rules supreme (NZME newspapers)
- Mike Yardley: A spring fling with Westport (NewstalkZB)
- Formerly known as the Blackball Hilton (Tirohanga Outlook)
- Treasures from a time when Coal was King – Denniston (Tirohanga Outlook)
- Stepping back in time - Shantytown (Tirohanga Outlook)
- Walking on the wild side in Punakaiki (Tirohanga Outlook)
- No traffic jams on the West Coast (Tirohanga Outlook)
- Junk2Funk Hokitika (Kia ora Magazine)
- Visit NZ's only white heron nesting site (Our New Zealand Magazine)
- Embrace the wilderness - Lake Brunner (Our New Zealand Magazine)
- West Coast (spring feature) (Our New Zealand Magazine)
- Wild game pie company doubles staff ahead of national expansion (The Press)
- West Coast Pie Company goes national (NZBusiness Magazine)
- Taste of West Coast campaign launches (Tourism Ticker)
- West Coast Pie Company goes national (Inside Tourism)
- The West Coasters documentary (Māori TV)
- Award-winning Shortjaw brewing digs deep to keep it local in Westport (NZ Entrepreneur Magazine)
- West Coast hotels finally come out of Covid mothballing (The Press)
- South Island road trip: Why the West Coast is an epic journey by campervan (NZHerald)
- International visitors return to the West Coast (NewstalkZB)
- Paparoa Track: the challenging road to New Zealand’s 10th great walk (UK Guardian)
- Kotoku return to the West Coast (Seven Sharp)
- The most interesting cities in New Zealand and the world according to Wikipedia – Hokitika (NZHerald)
- 10 of the very best beaches in New Zealand - Scotts Beach, Karamea (Lonely Planet)
- Welcome mat out for more West Coast businesses (NZBusiness Magazine)
- Heaphy Track reopening welcomed after tourism lull (The Press)
- The best motorcycle road trips in New Zealand (Sunday Star Times)
- Heaphy Track reopens (NewstalkZB)
- Heaphy Track reopens after storm damage (RNZ)
- Full reopening of Heaphy Track (Tourism Ticker)
- Heaphy Track fully reopening today (Inside Tourism)
- Heaphy Track reopens, thousands already booked in (Newshub)
- Karamea welcomes Heaphy Track return (Otago Daily Times)
- Surf, seals and million-dollar homes: The West Coast’s (almost) million-dollar row (The Press)
- From Tokyo, population 37 million, to a tiny NZ town 'at the end of the world's longest cul-de-sac' (Stuff)
- Big funding boost helps Ōpārara River Source to Sea project (The Press)
- Blackball Black Garlic taste success, now levelling up their culinary offering (NZ Entrepreneur Magazine)
- Forget the long-haul. Where to find earth’s most stunning spots - Hokitika Gorge (Sydney Morning Herald)