Earlier today we covered the MSN Travel UK announcement that New Zealand was the most boring place on earth according to the people on their message board. Here are some more of the comments that were made, why chose NZ when you could have…Wales? “New Zealand.Well…dull if you come from UK and then after 30…
This afternoon there was was another tragic drowning in a NZ rafting river – the Rangitikei River near Bulls which has stretches of grade 4 and 5 white water. Police were said to be in attendance and visibly upset people were being comforted. In October 2007 trainee guide Tor Prestmo, 24, from Norway, drowned when…
There has been another tragic Adventure Tourism related death in New Zealand. In an incident very reminiscent of the drowning of British tourist Emily Jordan, a 58-year-old American tourist, Caroline Lackey, has died after she became trapped under a rock whilst rafting at the Te Hoe section of the Mohaka River yesterday. http://www.wkyt.com/video/?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=4468480&flvUri=&partnerclipid= The trip…
Foto: Gina Hindseth Whilst the review of the Adventure Tourism industry is put on a back burner, until the busy summer season has passed its peak, a river rafting company has been prosecuted in connection with the death of Norwegian trainee guide Tor Prestmo, age 24. This appeared on Voxy on 23 December 2009 Wellington,…
The American tourist who was found face down in the water whilst swimming with dolphins in Marlborough Sound on Tuesday has been named as 27 year old Emily May Harper from Denver, Colorado. Please see this article for further details. Initial postmortem results suggest that she did not die from drowning and her boyfriend told…
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