In international tourism studies little attention has been paid to how different types of travel are portrayed in tourists' home countries, despite the fact that travel experiences are often culturally determined. Tourism ...

This research explores the demand for Maori eco-cultural tourism in New Zealand. It contributes to a larger project, Te Tapoitanga Maori - 'Growing regional Maori tourism', aimed at developing sustainable growth in tourism ...

Yield has become a central issue in tourism development. The New Zealand Tourism Strategy 2010 has called for a sustainable yield in two of its four key principles for the sector's long-term prosperity. Despite the rhetoric ...

Internationally, from 1850 to 1960 European colonization and urbanization transformed landscapes and removed urban nature. In the provision of public open space, cultural landscapes became the norm and protection of urban ...

Wetlands are defined by New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 as "includ[ing] permanently or intermittently wet areas, shallow water and land water margins that support a natural ecosystem of plants and animals that ...

The acronym 'OE' stands for 'overseas experience', an extended working holiday experience undertaken by many young New Zealanders. Historical circumstances, geographical factors and socio-cultural links have established ...

This paper aims to contribute to knowledge about the farm stay experience by providing exploratory insights into the characteristics that are common to a hosted stay on a WWOOF farm and to investigate whether the experiences ...

This report explores the political history, property rights, and administrative politics of the land tenure reform process to ask why the Crown has paid farmers millions of dollars to convert land from leasehold to freehold. ...