In recent years tourism has been one of the fastest growing sectors of the New Zealand economy, and has become particularly important in some of the smaller communities. What is uncertain is just how important the industry ...

This report presents results from two surveys of visitors to Rotorua, New Zealand, which investigated visitors' general characteristics (e.g., age, gender, origin country, accommodation, group type and size, length of stay, ...

The aim of this report is to outline how the Rotorua community experiences tourism and tourism development and how they have adapted to it. The objectives are to: give an historical account of the history of the development ...

The objective of this study was to develop an understanding of tourism and Maori development in Rotorua. The research process followed recognised protocols typical of culturally appropriate research and was sensitive to ...

The main objective of this research was to evaluate tourist impacts on geothermal vegetation and to examine visitor's attitudes towards their impacts on vegetation. Two commercially operated sites near Rotorua were selected ...

The objective of this study was to develop an understanding of visitors' and locals' experiences of the Rotorua landscape using photographs of landscape and Q method. The interest in landscape experience reflects the central ...