sustainability
Teach a man to fish? - Capacity building and waste management in the Pacific
Abstract: Creating opportunities for the sustainable development of tourism in the Pacific Islands must be stripped back to the basics. While assistance with marketing and promoting an image is important, developing crucial necessities such as waste management is the key to maintaining an attractive image for the destination in the short term and protecting natural resources in the long term. If the animals that tourists travel to see are choking to death on plastic bags, then how long can tourism last?
NZTRI Facilitates Workshop on Nature-based Tourism in the North Atlantic
On October 7-8th, NZTRI Associate Director Dr. John Hull delivered a two day workshop funded by the Nordic Council's Office of North Atlantic Agreement (NORA) for the Wild North Project in Torshavn, Faroe Islands.
NZTRI Organises Workshop on Geotourism in Iceland
The sustainability of tourism in Iceland has been on the agenda for over a decade, resulting in the adoption of several certification schemes and policies from national through to regional stakeholders. Hitherto no scheme has been introduced to manage nature-based destinations in Iceland with special emphasis on the maintenance of the physical integrity of the destination.
Sustainable Supercity
Associate Professor Charles Walker, Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies
Public transport: What’s rugby got to do with it?
Dr Geoff Dickson, Dr Melody Oliver, Dr Hannah Badland, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences
