{"id":49443,"date":"2021-02-18T17:38:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=49443"},"modified":"2021-02-18T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T16:38:49","slug":"new-zealand-wants-to-use-tourism-disruption-to-reconstruct-tourism-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2021\/02\/new-zealand-wants-to-use-tourism-disruption-to-reconstruct-tourism-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand wants to use tourism disruption to reconstruct tourism industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-49446\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valley-90388_1920-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"New Zealand wants to use tourism disruption to reconstruct tourism industry\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valley-90388_1920-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valley-90388_1920-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valley-90388_1920-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valley-90388_1920-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valley-90388_1920-103x67.jpg 103w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/valley-90388_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment\u2019s second tourism report urges the government to take advantage of the disruption caused by COVID-19 to transform the tourism industry.<\/p>\r\n<p>Titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pce.parliament.nz\/publications\/not-100-but-four-steps-closer-to-sustainable-tourism\">Not 100% \u2013 but four steps closer to sustainable tourism<\/a>\u201d, it builds on commissoner Simon Upton\u2019s 2019 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pce.parliament.nz\/publications\/pristine-popular-imperilled-the-environmental-consequences-of-projected-tourism-growth\">Pristine, popular \u2026 imperilled?<\/a>\u201d report and presents four detailed policy proposals intended to shift the tourism sector from a volume\/demand model to a sustainability model:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>introducing a departure tax to address the high and unavoidable emissions associated with international air travel<\/li>\r\n<li>making central government funding for tourism infrastructure conditional on environmental criteria.<\/li>\r\n<li>strengthening legislation allowing the Department of Conservation to fully protect Aotearoa\u2019s most spectacular natural areas<\/li>\r\n<li>strengthening existing standards for self-contained freedom camping.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>These represent a paradigm shift away from industry subsidy to increasing tourist and tourism business accountability.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Not business as usual<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>There is also much to like about the three key principles underpinning the commissioner\u2019s recommendations:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>tourism should be treated like any other sector of the economy, without special priority and public subsidy<\/li>\r\n<li>communities and\u00a0mana whenua should be central to tourism decision-making<\/li>\r\n<li>tourists and tourism businesses should meet the costs of the resources they consume (including finite environmental resources).<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>The report acknowledges the threat to the survival of many local tourism businesses from the crippling of international travel. But the commissioner argues there is great interest in, and wide support for, using this disruption to shape the industry\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\r\n<p>However, that transition will require active intervention to avoid a return to the status quo.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>This is an excerpt from an article by James Higham, originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/nz-tourism-can-use-the-disruption-of-covid-19-to-drive-sustainable-change-and-be-more-competitive-155370\">The Conversation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new parliamentary report urges the  New Zealand government to take advantage of the disruption caused by COVID-19 to transform the tourism industry. 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