Project

Venture Hawkes Bay, and its regional partners in tourism development, is looking to gain a deeper understanding of visitor satisfaction and behaviour in the region to underpin future tourism strategy development. NZTRI is going to establish a research barometer that can provide ongoing information about visitors to the region – forming part of a regional decision support system that can inform and better focus tourism industry development in the future.

In February 2010, BBH conducted their annual hostel ratings survey. NZTRI is assisting BBH with the processing of paper responses to the survey and report back to BBH at the end of April.

Dr. John Hull is working with Canadian Badlands, Ltd and the Blackfoot First Nation to complete a training needs assessment for this National Historic Site of Canada.  He
visited the Park in February 2010 and is presently working with Kalahari
Management based in Calgary and NZTRI staff to design and deliver a week
long training program in interpretation, marketing, business viability,
and customer service scheduled for May 2010.

NZTRI's Tourism and Community Program is completing recommendations for a conservation and development plan linked to the Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Canada recognized as one of the most significant fossil sites in the world.  The site
possesses fossils of multi-cellular life that lived 575 to 542 million
years ago in ancient oceans. The Reserve has been identified as one of
the eleven sites on Canada’s World Heritage Tentative List and is
recognized as having the potential to be inscribed to the World Heritage
List in the next decade.

NZTRI's Tourism and Community Program is presently assessing visitor attitudes about aquaculture, seafood and tourism in the Marlborough, Nelson, Golden Bay
region as part of a year long survey.  The research has been conducted
in partnership with the i-Sites in the region and is partially funded by
Destination Marlborough, Nelson Tasman Tourism and the Marine Farming
Association. The International Institute for Tourism and Development at
Clemson University, Clemson, USA is a partner in this research.