Holiday alert: Please note that kerbside collections between 25-27 December and 1-3 January will be pushed out a day (even recyclers need a holiday). For more on Rubbish & Recycling in our district, see our dedicated webpage.

Council offices will close at midday Wednesday 24 December 2025 and reopen 8.00am Monday 5 January 2026. For urgent issues, call us on 03 441 0499 (Queenstown) or 03 443 0024 (Wānaka). For non-urgent issues, please us the Snap Send Solve App. We hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Sister Cities

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Sister City relationships foster the growth of a mutual understanding and long-term friendship between countries and regions, as well as the communities within them. This bond allows for a continuous exchange of ideas and culture, and even facilitates development within the areas of trade and tourism.

Sister Cities aims to foster cross-border communications – a mutual exchange of ideas, people, and materials in a range of cultural, educational, youth, sports, municipal, professional, and technical projects. The establishment of sister city friendships stimulates interaction between people of different cultures and countries on a people-to-people basis.

QLDC enjoys a sister city relationship with Aspen, Colorado, USA. Queenstown also has a ‘friendship city’ relationship with Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, along with a Memorandum of Understanding with Ulsan City, in South Korea to work together on tourism and promotion.

If you would like to know more about our sister city relationships or may be interested in connecting with Queenstown Lakes District as a sister city, please get in touch:

governance@qldc.govt.nz