As for tourist benefits, the Cook Islands do not have a tax refund system at airports, as VAT is not applied to purchases. The landscape of the Cook Islands is diverse, with volcanic mountains in ...

Cook Islands MPs spent over $350,000 on overseas travel in the first half of the 2024/25 financial year, with a significantly ...

the small economy relies on tourism - mostly from New Zealand - which collapsed during the COVID-19 pandemic. China and the Cook Islands established diplomatic relations in 1997 and in 2018 ...

Hawaiian Airlines has announced significant enhancements to its Rarotonga (RAR) service, designed to improve the travel ...

tourism, agriculture, technology, education and, perhaps crucially, deep-sea mineral exploration. Brown says his decisions will be based on the "long-term interests" of the Cook Islands ...

But the proposed pact has shaken decades-old ties between the Cook Islands and New Zealand, neighbours that are set to mark 60 years of a free association agreement in 2025. That agreement has long ...

"The relationship between China and the Cook Islands does not target any third party," the Chinese Foreign Ministry says, as opposition leaders in Rarotonga plan protest.