Mountain guiding has been offered as an activity for tourists to New Zealand for over a century. In the late Nineteenth Century European guides, accompanying clients, introduced techniques to New Zealanders working at the ...

The tourism industry is one of the most significant economic industries for many countries including New Zealand. Indeed, tourism provides significant employment, incomes, taxes, investment and developmental benefits for ...

Lighthouses have always attracted the public's interest. They encompass a slice of New Zealand's history and are often surrounded by spectacular scenery and wildlife. Up until the mid 1990s, New Zealand's lighthouses were ...

Commercially guided climbers have been neglected by leisure and tourism researchers. However, several studies have concentrated on non-guided climbers and other mountain recreationists. This paper presents the results from ...

The dynamics of the tourism industry are well illustrated by the case of New Zealand’s tourism development over the last decade. The number of international tourists visiting New Zealand has doubled in the last ten years ...

Issues of coordination, collaboration and partnership are now at the forefront of much tourism research on finding new solutions to resource management and destination development problems. However, despite the value of ...

This report presents a detailed analysis of the impacts of Rugby Super 12 on the tourism industry in the Otago Highlanders region. It presents the results of a qualitative programme of research for which individuals involved ...