Make a list. What is your holiday priority? Sun, rest and recharge within short-range of New Zealand?

More than 10 years after the Boxing Day tsunami, the tiny village of Mirissa, on the south coast of Sri Lanka, is still doing it tough.

Dusty's sits at the foot of the Dave Murray Downhill and is one of Whistler's first apres spots.

The Tourism Industry Association estimates that in the year to March spending will reach $32.5 billion.

One industry watcher says it's time for NZ hotels to get investment in new properties.

The interesting thing about this exhibition being based in a museum is the balance between science and Hollywood.

With its old mustard coloured buildings, multitudes of lanterns, bicycles and happy looking dogs, Hoi An is definitely our cutest stop yet.

Second stop is Admiral's Arch. It's here we watch honking New Zealand fur seals frolic in the huge washing machine swells.

It's hard not to feel like James Bond stepping off the hovercraft on the crunchy ice of frozen solid Lake Baikal in Siberia.

One of the largest islands in the Gulf of Thailand, Ko Samui is known for palm-fringed sandy beaches, coral reefs and coconut trees.

There's a 10 per cent chance of sunshine in Colombia's Chingaza National Park.

"Y'all not from round here, are ya? Ain't nobody drinks Buuuud. This is Shiner Bock country, sir."

Singapore Airlines this month celebrates 40 years of flying into Auckland.

I'd been warned about the intense traffic in Vietnam when I had trouble crossing the streets in Taiwan.

The hotel manager offers a broad smile as he guides me down the boat ramp on to the warm sand of the eastern shore of Phi Phi Island (pronounced "PP").

The mountains of East Africa are being dissolved by climate change, Jason Patinkin reports.

I had been working as a news producer for one of the most-watched commercial television networks in Australia for 18 months, but suddenly I'd had enough.

In January 1966, the first ship carrying "citizen-explorers" arrived in Antarctica and only a handful of leisure travelers had ever considered visiting.

Did you miss me yesterday? I'm sorry, I was delirious in bed and couldn't write.

Where's the best place to watch next year's US eclipse? If you're thinking the grand open spaces of Wyoming, you have plenty of company.

A British family savagely beaten while on holiday in Thailand have vowed never to return to the country.

Alex Lawton thought he was just having a bit of a laugh with his mates, but instead he quickly found himself trapped in a nightmare scenario overseas.

WATCH: Shocking footage has emerged of a gang of thugs brutally beating a British family in Thailand apparently because they were Western tourists.

A distraught couple looked on in tears as a cruise ship sailed away with their young children on board after they missed the departure time.

A Japanese tourism board has highlighted three unwanted habits in a bid to stop holidaymakers behaving badly when visiting

A new comparison of the population size of a destination and the number of people who visit it has revealed the most and least touristy countries in the world.

Sometimes, babies decide to enter the world at the most inconvenient of times, like when you're speeding along 40,000 feet above the ground.

Behind us are three sparkling shopping malls where Swedish clothing giant H&M recently opened its first shiny store in India.