A roller-coaster derailed at the Caroline Bay carnival in Timaru yesterday at 3.45pm, leaving a man and a four year old child hanging upside down within a carriage below the tracks. The man was taken to hospital with back injuries and the child is said to have been “shaken” by the event. See the report…
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…
Smart Traveller has issued the following advisory for residents intending to travel to New Zealand, dated Tuesday 7 September 2010. Besides the usual warnings about crime, travel, hazardous road conditions, rail crossings, negligent adventure tourism operators and the inherent risks of those types of activities, the site has been updated to include information about natural…
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…
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