New Zealand Tourism Sustainability Commitment news, including media releases, and articles about tourism businesses putting the Commitments into action.
UYOC.CO.NZ is an online café guide that represents cafes that are committed minimising their environmental impact.
Jucy Rentals will be launching ten new EV campers into its fleet for the summer season and is also working with academics to develop more lightweight and efficient vehicles.
Around 20,000 tonnes of PET, or polyester plastic, is imported into New Zealand every year for plastic packaging. It’s the most used packaging material in the world, and innovative plastics company Flight Plastics in Lower Hutt have just recycled their first 1000 tonnes of it.
Haka Tours are ensuring sustainable employment for New Zealand’s tangata whenua with the announcement of their Maori Tour Manager scholarship, providing career opportunities in tourism.
Minister for Climate Change James Shaw has welcomed the ‘Declaration for Ambition’ on climate change, speaking on the importance of working with other countries to implement the Paris Agreement.
A new Hawke’s Bay Tourism campaign is showing a real commitment to business sustainability by finding new ways to deal with the effects of seasonality.
Auckland Airport has been recognised as one of the leading organisations in New Zealand in its efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
Skydive operators across the country are doing their bit for the community in June, supporting the SPCA’s Jump to the Rescue 2018.
Prawns have quietly slipped from Air New Zealand 's menu because of concerns they could have been caught by slave labour. This is part of a wider move across the New Zealand airline, and others around the world to crack down on forced labour and human trafficking.
Twelve local and international businesses signed a declaration on World Environment Day (5 June 2018) to tackle plastic waste.
The New Zealand recycling sector is calling on the Government to take strong and positive action to avert our national recycling crisis, reboot recycling, and create a circular economy in Aotearoa.
Auckland Tourism, Events & Economic Development (ATEED) has signed up to the TSC, the first step towards meeting the sustainability focus of its new Destination AKL 2025 Strategy.
A 20 year native bird monitoring programme by the Department of Conservation has confirmed findings that sustained predator control has positive effects on native bird numbers, the New Zealand Herald reports.
Native bird species are flourishing once again in a 1000-year-old forest on Rotorua's doorstep after a "groundbreaking" partnership between Canopy Tours, the Department of Conservation and New Zealand pest trap manufacturer Goodnature, reports the Rotorua Daily Post.
Ngāti Porou and Air New Zealand have signed a Partnership Agreement aimed at generating further economic and social growth in Tairāwhiti Gisborne, with tourism development a priority.
