New Zealand Tourism Sustainability Commitment news, including media releases, and articles about tourism businesses putting the Commitments into action.
Auckland Airport is giving $10,000 each to 12 charities as part of its annual 12 Days of Christmas initiative.
Coronet Peak’s pine eradication program is helping locals during Christmas.
Christchurch Airport has taken out the Efficiency Champion category of the Sustainable Business Network Awards after dramatically reducing its energy use and focusing on using cleaner energy sources.
Tourism Industry Aotearoa has today launched the New Zealand Tourism Sustainability Commitment, establishing eight Goals for the tourism industry to attain by 2025. Individual businesses are being invited to adopt 14 Commitments designed to support the industry to reach the Goals. A new website www.sustainabletourism.nz has also been launched today.
“International visitors make New Zealand a better place for New Zealanders. Securing a long term sustainable future for our industry is more important now than ever. We have to protect and enhance what makes New Zealand a great place to live and a desirable place to visit, providing our communities and visitors with an excellent experience long into the future.
It only takes one person to start the sustainability journey - but if that person can connect with the leaders in an organisation, and create enough momentum, then they can make a difference.
New Zealand’s enduring appeal as a tourist destination relies on the breath-taking beauty of its landscapes and the vibrancy of its people. We need our tourism industry to treasure them.
As New Zealand unites behind a nature-based future, it is especially heartening to see the tourism industry making a Sustainability Commitment that has ecological restoration at its very heart.
The Tourism Sustainability Commitment will help us all drive the change needed in New Zealand today to better welcome the future and we invite the industry to accompany us.
Congratulations! We think this Tourism Sustainability Commitment initiative is a great step that recognises the impact and opportunity of tourism in, for and with local communities. Doing this well will help enable local communities to flourish and we look forward to supporting next steps.
Air New Zealand has been crowned 2018 Airline of the Year by leading international aviation website AirlineRatings.com.
Skyline Queenstown is hosting two community events in November to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
A Christchurch tourism business with a strong focus on conservation, Willowbank Wildlife Reserve recently won a top award in the 2017 Champion Canterbury Business Awards.
Sudima Christchurch Hotel has become the second carboNZero certified hotel in the country, following in the footsteps of Sudima Auckland Airport which achieved the milestone in 2013.
