Small business Kohutapu Lodge and Tribal Tours wins at NZ tourism awards
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While the auditor-general probes the way tourism aid was handled, not all operators want the money they were offered.
Parliament’s environmental watchdog says the tourism industry has been carried and cosseted for too long, while its impact on the environment has been largely ignored. In a new report released yesterday, Simon Upton says it’s time for real action, not more marketing spin and hollow talk about “sustainability”. Mike White investigates how tourism has become a problem area, despite being a crucial part of New Zealand’s economy. Poor Simon Upton. Just three months after the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment released his first report into the looming calamity of tourism’s unbridled growth, New Zealand shut its borders, due to Covid-19.
Luxury Escapes Guide to Wellington
Wellington s sophisticated but relaxed urban vibe combines brilliant eating and drinking with some of New Zealand s best art galleries and museums.
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Like a more compact version of Seattle and San Francisco – there s even a cable car negotiating heritage neighbourhoods studded with colourful wooden houses – Wellington has been lauded by Lonely Planet as the coolest little capital in the world .
The city s downtown precinct is filled with great cafés, cool craft beer bars and innovative restaurants, all frequented by the city s working population of IT startups, moviemakers and politicians. Factor in a growing interest in local and sustainable ingredients, and it s reckoned Wellington has more cafés and restaurants per capita than New York City. Not bad for a city of just over 210,000 at the bottom of the world.