A brief report into the death of British tourist Tom Donaldson has just been made in the Northern Advocate. According to the paper the coroner said that “Visitors wanting to experience New Zealand’s adventure tourism should be warned that they are taking a risk. That message, from Northland’s coroner, comes as the region prepares to…
Almost three years after her death and there still hasn’t been an inquest into the death of British tourist Emily Jordan. Emily Jordan drowned whilst participating in a commercially organised river boarding adventure on the Kawarau River in New Zealand on 29 April 2008. In August 2009 Mad Dog River Boarding was prosecuted for…
Media outlets are reporting on the long awaited release of New Zealand’s Adventure Tourism safety review. The review was instigated after the father of drowned river boarding tourist, Emily Jordan, wrote to John Key calling safety regulation in New Zealand “third world.” The two main outcomes are that there are recommendations that adventure tourism Operators…
Our readers know that we often write about adventure tourism related deaths and serious injuries on this blog and a while ago we commented on the death of Paul Woods – A British general surgeon at Dunedin Hospital he died when the jet boat he was a passenger in flipped after hitting a gravel bank in…
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…
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