Rotorua Sustainable Tourism Charter Rotorua Sustainable Tourism (logo can be seen in Figure 5) acts as a guideline for the practice of sustainability among local business. In accordance with this charter is a New Zealand’s official quality assurance to program called Quallmark. (Sustainability, 2015) Quallmark’s qualification is only awarded businesses that follow the five following criteria in developing their strategies: Energy Efficiency Waste Management Water Conservation Environmental
visitors to access the destination such as flying or a taxi from the airport. Hotels have restaurants available for guests for convenient use. In Rotorua I have stayed at three very different types of accommodation,
eruption. 10th of June soon after midnight. Mt Tarawera light up like fireworks. BOOM! Molten rock cam flying out of the crater. People as far as Blenheim could hear this thunder like noises but had no idea what it could be. Although the people of Rotorua knew exactly what has happening Mount Tarawera was erupting! The Mt. Tarawera eruption was the largest eruption in New Zealand for 800 years. After the eruption the land had dramatically changed. In my mind I think the biggest loss would have to
learning in their teaching. I decided to investigate co-operative learning (CL) for two main reasons, firstly because after reflecting back on my own school experiences I found the best memories I have of school were from my first Primary school in Rotorua where I had a beginning teacher who did a lot of CL activities with us and made the topic we studied more relevant to us by making it a more real thing. The topic we studied was Ancient Egypt and some of our group tasks were to make a mummy, re-create
Written report – positive & negative impacts of cruise ship tourism in Tauranga. In 2013-14 Tauranga had 83 voyage calls, 25 vessels entering with 83 port days in total. They also had 100 unique passengers and 149,000 passenger port days. Tauranga has established itself as a go-to destination for cruise passengers, with its natural beauty and friendly locals it is not hard to see why. Over the years, Tauranga’s cruise tourism has changed from the 2013-14 statistics, the amount of voyage calls this
Mary Helen MacKillop was born in the suburb of Fitzroy in Melbourne on the 15th of January 1842. MacKillop was born to Alexander and Flora MacKillop, Catholic migrants originally from the Highland area of Scotland. The young Mary was educated at private schools but, mostly by her father, up until the age of 14 when she quit school to work and provide for her family. Through her parent’s devotion to the Catholic faith she became more and more involved in the Church and Catholic practices. In the 1840’s
Introduction- New Zealand is a country that likes to claim it has clean and green to international communities across the globe. It shows the world its many endemic species and has many measures laid to attempt to protect them and their natural environment. New Zealand is a relatively small country with a population of 4 million. Due to its small size it must import oil and other materials for production but as cost for materials are continually increasing on the global market while supply is lowering
George Percy Grainger was born on July 8, 1882 in Brighton, Australia. He was a composer and pianist who used the stage name Percy Aldridge Grainger. His father, John Harry Grainger, was a successful architect who emigrated from London, England in 1876. Percy’s mother, Rosa Annie Aldridge, was born on July 3, 1861 in Adelaide, Australia. Her parents were in the hotel business and were also English immigrants. During the early parts of Percy’s parents’ marriage, his mother received syphilis from
From a modern day perspective, the purpose of the marae has been as a place for the more official parts of Māori culture. The marae are unequalled places of importance. "Marae hold the knowledge of the Māori culture. They are the repositories of their history, their stories, and their existence." Ratima, 2010. Importantly, as highlighted in the creation story in Ahorangi Genesis, the ancestor link is through Tane, as the whare is an embodiment of Tane. His precious gift was te whare kura as a physical
Culture is defined as the characteristics of a group of people in all aspects such as language, religion, lifestyle etc. Varying societies have different cultures but traces of similarities are still present. Variety in culture ranges from things such as clothes, foods, religion and way of life. A key example of this includes countries such as Australia and New Zealand, both have parts of their culture where the similarities are indistinguishable, yet they differ and provide for an interesting diverse