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ANALYSIS: With pressure growing on the aviation sector to clean up its carbon act, some EU countries think they have a solution in the form of a tax. The Global Alliance...
Campaigners seeking to stop plans to expand Stansted airport are pinning their hopes on a council meeting on Friday, January 24. The Uttlesford District Council planning committee meeting looks like it...
The majority of Queenstown residents surveyed in the most recent Mood of the Nation online survey believe international tourists are putting too much pressure on New Zealand. Seventy-eight percent of the...
While New Zealand may continue to prosper from the tourist dollar for a decade or two yet, there is the very real prospect that the climate crisis will drive international tourism...
1.5 billion international tourist arrivals were recorded in 2019, globally. A 4% increase on the previous year which is also forecast for 2020, confirming tourism as a leading and resilient economic...
The following article appeared in yesterday’s Sunday Star Times – it is written by WSG member and long-term Wanaka resident, Meg Taylor, and is reproduced here in full. You can also...
Tourist numbers in Wanaka could become overwhelming in the decade ahead, the Wanaka Stakeholders Group says.Deputy chairman Mark Sinclair said the group was not against tourism, but as a community there...
A second Queenstown person has been appointed to the board of the Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC). The Queenstown Lakes District Council announced yesterday the appointment of Simon Flood as a director....
New Zealanders are becoming more comfortable with the number of international tourists but more than half are worried that predicted growth is too much. Research out today shows that 24 per...
‘Mood of the Nation’ research commissioned by TIA and Tourism New Zealand measured New Zealanders’ perceptions of tourism. The survey is conducted twice a year, with over 1000 New Zealanders interviewed...