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Michael Ross discusses the expansion of the Wanaka Airport with Corin Dann.Listen to this on Radio New Zealand – Morning Report Michael Ross discusses the expansion of the Wanaka Airport 4′01″Morning Report (11...
A passenger jet landing and taking off every 10 minutes. That is a conclusion in a report into the underlying finances of the proposed expansion of Wanaka Airport and an investment...
In the Detail today, Sharon Brettkelly talks to a woman who’s looked at the world’s most over-crowded tourist spots. Locals of the Lofoten Islands in Norway are fighting to restore their...
Queenstown Lakes District Council released their draft Climate Action Plan last week and is inviting feedback. At the forefront of climate dialogue in Wanaka, is the question of how expansion of...
How does a tourist resort and district, with a growing resident population and an international airport (and another one planned), achieve a zero carbon future? …the Zero Carbon Amendment Bill will...
You are “scaremongering” was one of the many comebacks published in a letter from Mayor Jim Boult to Michael Ross of the Wanaka Stakeholders Group (WSG). It was a cutting letter...
Earlier this week, our Mayor suggested in a forceful letter to Wanaka Stakeholders Group that we are ‘scaremongering’ about overtourism in Wanaka. That very same day, this piece appeared in our...
Historians, archaeologists, and members of the tourism industry are criticizing the decision to build a new airport at the entrance to the Sacred Valley, claiming it will put the local culture...
With visitor numbers surging and infrastructure problems on the rise, commentators and experts are wondering if we Kiwis have been “asleep at the wheel”. The issue of overtourism is one which...
More than 2.2 million travellers visited Iceland in 2017, a country with fewer than 350,000 residents. That equates to six tourists per resident. The rapid increase in tourism has brought numerous economic...