Emily and her partner Jonathan Armour The highly critical jury at the Coronial inquest into the death of British tourist Emily Jordan has returned a verdict of Death by Misadventure. Emily drowned whilst participating in a commercially organised river boarding excursion with Mad Dog River Boarding ( now named The River Boarding Company) on the Kawarau…
The inquest into the death of British tourist, Emily Jordan, has at last opened. But not in New Zealand, the country where she was killed whilst river boarding, but in Great Britain. At the time of her death some adventure tourism activities in New Zealand were operating in a “regulatory vacuum.” Emily Jordan drowned whilst…
A New Zealand based travel industry magazine, Traveltrade has questioned New Zealand’s ability to host the Rugby World Cup and has hit out at the high prices tourists have to pay for accommodation, rental cars and flights during the event. The mag’s editor, Gordon Gillan, used an example of his brother and his friends being…
Press release by Amnesty International, NZ 13 May 2011 “As the global human rights revolution stands at the threshold of historic change, New Zealand’s own record is being eroded as the Government fails to address the country’s most pressing human rights issues, says Amnesty International as it launches its annual assessment of human rights worldwide…
Day’s after a televised broadcast of NZ Prime Minister John Key defending his country’s 100% Pure image on the BBC’s Hardtalk, the Bay of Plenty Times is running the story that tonnes of Kiwifruit have been pulled from the market after a Typhoid scare. “Kiwifruit worth $800,000 – including some bound for overseas markets –…
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