The Roxborogh Report is a travel and music website by New Zealand broadcaster and writer Tim Roxborogh. Launched in 2010 while Tim was off on the great New Zealand OE (“overseas experience) where he spent 18-months backpacking throughout Southeast Asia, North America and Australia, this website became Tim’s outlet for sharing his stories with the world.

Almost 15-years, some 500 articles later and with Tim now a family man with two young children living in West Auckland, The Roxborogh Report continues to grow, reaching an average of 150,000 readers per year with nearly two-million total hits.

Grounded in Tim’s ethos of celebrating the underrated and the overlooked – be it in travel or music – The Roxborogh Report is proudly mainstream and proudly positive.

From remote eco-lodges to large beach resorts, from iconic 5-star hotels to historic boutiques, and from humble B&B’s to high-rise AirBnB’s, The Roxborogh Report has collaborated directly with dozens of accomodation providers of all varieties over the past decade.

Here’s how Tim described his travel philosophy to Let’s Travel magazine in 2016:

“For me, travel is about storytelling. It’s hearing people’s stories and creating your own. It’s the fun when things don’t go entirely to plan. It’s being open to new experiences and the kindness of strangers. It’s about challenging stereotypes and misconceptions. It’s being unrelentingly curious; of wanting to know what’s down that street, what’s behind that door, what’s around that headland and what the view is like from that mountain.”

Regarding music, Tim’s loves nothing more than to overturn preconceived ideas. As Barry Gibb once said about the Bee Gees, “We’re so overground, we’re underground!” And he’s right: sometimes the greatest treasures – be they musical or in the physical world around us – are the ones seemingly staring us in the face.

Beyond the Bee Gees, you’ll also find dozens of articles here about many of Tim’s other favourite artists, including U2, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Bruce Springsteen, the Commodores, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Paul Simon, Hall & Oates, Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, David Bowie, Queen, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac and many more.

So whether it’s diving deep into the back catalogue of one of history’s biggest bands, or finding a remote eco-lodge in dense jungle on a Malaysian island, The Roxborogh Report is all about the shining of light.

Thanks for stopping by! May the destinations inspire you and may the music open your mind as well as your ears.