Air New Zea­l­and have recently launched a cam­paign to per­suade reluct­ant Aus­trali­ans to choose New Zea­l­and as a hol­i­day des­tin­a­tion. It turns out there are actu­ally some people who aren’t aroused by the thought of scenery, sheep and extreme sports.

As part of this cam­paign, there’s a Rhys Darby-nar­rated series of videos, each smash­ing a par­tic­u­lar ste­reo­type about our fair coun­try. So, what loc­a­tion is used to prove to a cool Sydney dude that New Zea­l­and can actu­ally has hip­ness? Why, yes, it’s Wel­ling­ton!

Hip­ster Patrick from Sydney is tricked into going to Wel­ling­ton and giv­en a tour of the fair city’s cool corners by fash­ion blog­ger Isaac Hind­in Miller. But here’s the hil­ari­ous thing – pretty much all the places they vis­it are among our favour­ites, and most have been TAWA nom­in­ees at some point.

While some of us will genu­inely be con­cerned that their favour­ite places are no longer cool now that Air New Zea­l­and has outed them as hip­ster joints, I think it’s great that a) urb­an New Zea­l­and is being pro­moted as a tour­ist des­tin­a­tion and b) these cool corners of Wel­ling­ton are get­ting some atten­tion.