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The country's inaugural Pride Week - Anuanua Week - was full of colourful activities and events exploring the diversity of LGBTQIA+ communities and their rights across the Pacific.

Construction of a $20 million resort is underway in what is understood to be Rarotonga’s first five- star operation. Al Williams reports.

Cooks Islands tourism figures for 2023 have exceeded the industry's expectations and the national tourist office says "future proofing" the sector needs to be a priority.

Tourism’s contribution to the Cook Islands’ gross domestic product (GDP) for the last quarter of 2023 (October-December) was estimated at 75.4 per cent, according to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management.

A Cook Islands resort group has scooped three trophies at the World Travel Awards.

Partnership and true dialogue was the message echoed across the room from the tourism community to representatives of Air New Zealand.

When Nerida Williams visited the Cook Islands late last year, she was struck by just how many Pride flags were dotted about the place.

Changes to the Pacific island country’s Crimes Act also removed marriage as a defense in rape cases.

Australian production company Hooligan Collective, working with Te Rua Productions and Cook Islands Tourism have teamed up to create a new international campaign, to promote tourism visitation post-covid. The campaign taps into the insight of how many tropical zoom backgrounds people have been stari

RAROTONGA (NZ Herald/RNZ Pacific/Pacnews) — The Cook Islands needs more direct flights to restart the tourism industry and hundreds more workers but New Zealands travel requirements are slowing the process