The tourist killed in yesterday’s jet boat crash in Tauranga Harbour has been named as 63 year old Canadian tourist Richard Evans. Richard Evans, who had been holidaying in New Zealand with his wife, was a highly regarded rugby team manager having been a been a top class referee for many years before that. This…
related story: Another New Zealand Adventure Tourism Fail – Shotover Jet Boat Crashes Against Rock, Again Next time you see the 100% Pure You advertisement that shows a mother and daughters blowing away their cobwebs on a speed boat safari in New Zealand, spare a thought for the people who have been maimed and killed…
Another foreign tourist has died in a tourism activity in New Zealand. This latest fatality was on 6 January during a guided dive in Port Gore at the top of the South Island, part of the Marlborough Sounds which also was the scene of the dolphin boat incident in December when an Australian tourist’s legs…
Months after the completion of the review of adventure tourism in New Zealand, regulations have finally been drawn up. The new regs, made under the Health and Safety in Employment Act, don’t take effect until October 2011 – three and a half years after the drowning death of British tourist Emily Jordan sparked a review…
Today’s Dom Post had published a story saying that Reverse Bungy NZ in central Wellington has been closed due to safety concerns. Apparently the capital city’s tourist attraction has something of a “chequered safety history” over the last 14 months. The Dom Post states that the Department of Labour had been investigating the mechanical failure of…
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