The government charged Outdoors New Zealand and the Tourism Industry associations with implementing five recommendations coming out of the Adventure Tourism Review, working with other sector and government bodies as appropriate. These recommendations need to be implemented before October 2014.
We are working to:
- establish an industry-led entity to strengthen the safety management framework for the adventure tourism sector
- develop an adventure safety guide for the adventure tourism sector (other than for adventure aviation activities, commercial jet boating and rafting) - this has now been achieved, with the launch of the supportadventure.co.nz website in early December 2011
- develop activity specific safety guides
- ensure that better and more consistent information on the adventure tourism sector is collected, and that its collation is improved
- investigate what the appropriate levels and measures of competency are for adventure and outdoor commercial sector instructors and guides
The Department of Labour is taking the lead on:
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the notification and registration process, and approving the auditors
Outdoors NZ is taking the lead on:
- ensuring that better and more consistent information on the adventure tourism sector is collected, and that its collation is improved
- Outdoor NZ is leading an investigation into sector interest, engagement and concerns about a sector wide incident reporting system is being carried out. This will involve research into curent incident data sets, consultation around proposed approaches and investigation to identify the gap between the current proposals and the sectors requirements. The output will be a report with recommendations for the Department of Labour. Read more here.
- investigating what the appropriate levels and measures of competency are for adventure and outdoor commercial sector instructors and guides
- A scoping exercise has been initiated to identify the key areas for investigation into what the appropriate levels and measures of competency are for adventure and outdoor commercial sector instructors and guides. The output from the scoping project will be a report for the depatment of labour that recommends the investigation approach and quantifies the resource required to complete it. Read more here.
TIA is taking the lead on:
- developing an adventure safety guide for the adventure tourism sector - completed.
- developing activity specific safety guides
See the supportadventure.co.nz website