Workshops

Workshops will be held after each of the key topic sessions to discuss and debate the issues facing the industry.  Key industry participants in conservation, environmental management and tourism will facilitate workshop sessions.

Click here to see the workshop presentation from Ron Mader on how operators and government leaders can take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies to promote New Zealand ecotourism.  This workshop reviews specific tools to promote operators using Planeta.com, Flickr, Youtube and Wikipedia.

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What's happening?

11

Jan

2010

Certificate in Ecotourism to be delivered by industry experts
Tai Poutini Polytechnic is working with tourism operators, the Department of Conservation and other relevant Government agencies and independent consultants to assist with delivering specialist aspects of the programme’s curriculum.

09

Aug

2009

Conference 09 media reports
See how the media reported on the conference from TVNZ One News, Radio NZ, The NZ Hearld, The Press and The Nelson Mail.

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Top News from Stuff

11

Mar

2010

Arctic 'doomsday vault' growing

A "doomsday" vault storing crop seeds in an Arctic deep freeze is surpassing 500,000 samples, to become the most diverse collection of food seeds in history.

10

Mar

2010

'Shark caesarean' pups released into wild

Eight baby school shark pups born in a bizarre caesarean section at Kelly Tarlton's in Auckland last year were released into open waters yesterday.


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