Research History

How Clean and Green is New Zealand Tourism?

The Tourism study looks at the lifecycle and future environmental impacts of tourism on the New Zealand environment. To date, New Zealand research has focused on on-site and local area environmental impacts of tourism activity. This tourism study covers the use of natural resources (land, energy, water) and the production of pollutants.

Integrated Economic-Environmental Accounts were used to improve understanding of economy-environment links. As an example, the following diagram shows 'The Direct and Indirect Water Outputs for the Tourism Sector for the 1997-98 Year'. For a more detailed breakdown of water use in supplying food and beverages to the Tourism sector, click on the box highlighted in green.

Direct and indirect water inputs (m3) into "Food and Beverages" for the Tourism Sector 1997-8
(as highlighted in green above) are:

Please contact Murray Patterson for more information about this study.