The review of adventure tourism, instigated after the father of Emily Jordan called safety regulation in NZ third world, has yet to see the light of day. Mr. Jordan wrote in a letter to Mr Key that he had spent 16 months investigating the way that extreme sports firms are regulated in New Zealand and…
In what must be a landmark decision in adventure tourism in New Zealand company director Alistair McWhannell has just been found guilty of the manslaughter of Catherine Peters. “Adventure company director Alistair McWhannell has been found guilty of the manslaughter of student Catherine Peters, who fell to her death while bridge-swinging last year. A jury…
An Australian tourist, 38-year-old John Parisis, from New South Wales, has fallen and died whilst on a guided tour with Franz Josef Glacier Guides in South Island, New Zealand. Mr Parisis’s cousin, Tina Vasilakis, said yesterday Mr Parisis had been in “good health” and was “excited to start his new life overseas” (Switzerland). “He walked…
The trial of the man accused of the manslaughter of student Catherine Peters started today. Catherine Peters, was an 18 year old student in her first year of a veterinary degree at Massey University. She died in March last year from injuries sustained when she fell 20 metres from the Ballance Bridge in the Manawatu…
7 May An Australian tourist from Sydney has been injured whilst performing a bungy jump this afternoon above the Waiau River: From a NZPA report “An Australian tourist is in a stable condition in Christchurch Hospital after slipping from a bungy cord into a river near Hanmer Springs today. The woman, who had been holidaying…
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