Environmental Indicators
Last updated:
June 2010
The Ministry of Tourism has led a project to identify environmental indicators for New Zealand tourism.
These will be reported on annually to monitor the relationship between New Zealand's tourism sector and New Zealand's environment.
The proposed set of tourism environmental indicators has been developed under two overarching goals:
- Monitoring visitors experience of New Zealand's environment
- Monitoring the tourism sector’s impacts on New Zealand’s environment
The proposed tourism environmental indicator set includes indicators based on data collected at the national, regional and operator levels. It is intended that the indicators set will be further developed over time as new data becomes available.
Environmental Indicators Report (PDF 2MB)
This is the first report on the tourism environmental indicator set. The primary purpose is to provide an introduction to the indicators, including the context in which they were developed.
A secondary purpose is to provide analysis of the data to date. At this stage, the data available provides baseline information only. Trends will be established over time.
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