A profile of tourism in the Lake Waikaremoana region: independent visitation in rural New Zealand
Abstract
This report provides the results of a survey of 191 visitors to Lake Waikaremoana, a remote area in Te
Urewera National Park. Lake Waikaremoana has few established tourism services but significant
tourist flows. Visitation is dominated by domestic tourists and the surrounding population is
predominantly of Maori ethnicity. Lake Waikaremoana thus provided a case study that might be used
to enhance understandings of the wider demand for tourism in isolated rural areas and to look at
opportunities for the development of tourism and Maori tourism experiences in these areas.
Keywords
tourism demand; Lake Waikaremoana; isolated rural locations; Maori tourism; rural tourism developmentFields of Research
150606 Tourist Behaviour and Visitor Experience; 1506 TourismDate
2007Type
MonographCollections
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