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The George offers exclusive conservation experience
The George Hotel has embarked on a partnership with Christchurch Helicopters to sponsor Flight Path – a fundraising programme and experience to support a critically endangered bird.
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Destination Cambridge Wins Sustainability Award
The Cambridge i-SITE and Destination Cambridge took out two awards at the 2019 Waipa Business Awards – Excellence in Business: Small and the award for Excellence in Community Contribution and Sustainability.
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Domestic Satisfaction Report Series
Research carried out for TIA by Angus & Associates monitoring perceptions of regional travel destinations within New Zealand to meet the needs of the industry.
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Toitū Envirocare Offer for TIA Members
TIA and Toitū Envirocare (formerly Enviro-Mark Solutions) have partnered up to help tourism businesses measure their carbon footprint
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Sign up to RefillNZ
RefillNZ has come up with a solution to tackle Aotearoa's single-use plastic bottle problem.
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Conservation Week 2019 - get involved!
1 September 2019
Take part in events run by DOC, local businesses, and community groups during Conservation Week, 14 - 22 September 2019.
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Sustainability moves taking root
TIA Sustainability Advocate Megan Williams talks to the Otago Daily Times about her work to encourage tourism operators to sign up to the New Zealand Tourism Sustainability Commitment.
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Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill
On behalf of the tourism industry, TIA has lodged a submission supporting the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill.
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Creating sustainable events: TRENZ 2019
Events can create a lot of waste but this year, New Zealand's biggest tourism and travel showcase was the most sustainable it's ever been.
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Tourism & its climate impacts
Swedish academic and sustainable tourism specialist Stefan Gössling on tourism and its climate impacts spoke at the inaugural Tourism Policy School in Queenstown in 2019. He gave a short, sharp scientific appraisal of tourism and its climate impacts.
Stefan is a professor at the Linnaeus University School of Business and Economics and Lund University's Department of Service Management.
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1000 TSC Supporters!
Over 1000 tourism businesses have now signed up to the Tourism Sustainability Commitment!
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10 questions for suppliers
8 April 2019
The top 10 sustainability questions to ask your suppliers… before your customers ask you.
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ATEED focuses on 2021
Forget 20/20 vision, Auckland needs to look ahead to 2021. ATEED's four-part series on the future of Auckland's tourism has been published in the New Zealand Herald.
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Telling the Tourism Story
Welcoming, supportive communities are a vital part of what New Zealand has to offer our visitors. TIA's 'Tourism Story' project aims to find ways to support all sectors of the industry to tell their stories better, from the small town holiday park providing local employment opportunities and supporting local suppliers, to the big corporate donating thousands of dollars to environmental causes.
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Steering the Australasian cruise industry towards sustainability
New Zealand Cruise Association, Cruise Lines International Association and Australian Cruise Association have released the first Cruise Industry Sustainability Guide in this region to showcase the work being done by the industry to preserve the world’s pristine waterways.
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Travellers invited to care for New Zealand
Seven key New Zealand organisations have joined forces to conceive and develop Tiaki – Care for New Zealand, an initiative that actively encourages international and domestic travellers to act as guardians of Aotearoa.
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TSC reaches 500 sign-ups, well on the way to goal of 1000
The number of sign-ups to the Tourism Sustainability Commitment have now exceeded 500, marking the half-way point of TIA’s goal of 1000 sign-ups by March 2019.
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Recycling plastic a game-changer for NZ environment
Around 20,000 tonnes of PET, or polyester plastic, is imported into New Zealand every year for plastic packaging. It’s the most used packaging material in the world, and innovative plastics company Flight Plastics in Lower Hutt have just recycled their first 1000 tonnes of it.
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Action on plastic
Twelve local and international businesses signed a declaration on World Environment Day (5 June 2018) to tackle plastic waste.
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ATEED signs NZ Sustainability Commitment
Auckland Tourism, Events & Economic Development (ATEED) has signed up to the TSC, the first step towards meeting the sustainability focus of its new Destination AKL 2025 Strategy.
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