Today we dove deeper into New Zealand’s tourism industry. Something that stood out to me the most was the comparison of taking a flight and staying in New Zealand to taking a flight to a popular destination. This was termed as a flight and flop where you take a trip but don’t really immerse yourself…
Tourism Industry Aotearoa and Digital Story Group work
Today we visited the Tourism industry in Aotearoa. We learned about how they are working to help businesses with sustainability and eventually walk down the path of Regenerative practices netting positives for the whole of society. The organization is a trust that works to help set industry-level agendas helping both those member companies funding them…
New Zealand’s Tourism Industry 5/17
We visited the Aoetera New Zealand Tourism Industry earlier this morning. The lecture lasted from 10:00am-12:00pm. One of the things that really stood out to me during this lecture was if tourism was helping NZ or is NZ helping tourism. I felt that it could’ve gone both ways personally mainly because NZ does rely on…
The voice of New Zealand’s Tourism Industry
Today we learned about the voice of New Zealand tourism industry. this is a charitable trust in the private sector that works on the tourism industry. They had very spontaneous goals, one was to have a zero net carbon tourism industry by 2050. They are striving for a zero net carbon economy by raising awareness….
Sustainability at Te Herenga Wake Victoria University of Wellington
I learned a lot today on our tour of the campus. During the lecture I found out that 80% of New Zealand’s electricity system energy is renewable energy and the bulk of this comes from hydro. 65% of this hydro energy that is created comes from geo thermal sources. Wind power generation is a small…
Victoria University of Wellington
Today was a long one filled with lectures and a seminar from 9 to 5. We first started with a tour of one of the buildings at Victoria University where we learned about some stats and the positive impact that the uni is achieving in terms of sustainability practices. We discussed their engagements both internally…
Victoria University 5/16
This morning, we spent the whole day at Victoria University of Wellington. We were touring around the campus and getting to understand what exactly happens at Victoria University. I found that the campus was very clean and green which explains that the university puts a high emphasis on cleaning and keeping their school environment safe….
University of Victoria-Wellington
Today we meet Andrew Wilks, Director of Sustainability. He talked to us about sustainability on the university campus and gave us a tour of the University. During the tour, we got to see the Living Pa Project construction, the worm compost, and the glass milk bottle recycling then we had lunch. After lunch, we learned…
victoria university
Told we went to the college to learn how people are proceeding with sustainability projects. It was insightful to learn the attitudes and excitement of the project. I went to a local makeup store and had a great conversation with the cashiers. They were surprised to know they were doing so well in sustainability compared…
Day 7: Victoria University
We had a full day at Victoria University in Wellington! I was happy to see so many aspects of sustainable development come to life on campus. For example, we got a glimpse of one of the bee hives and we also explored the milk room, which uses glass bottles for whole milk, along with the…
