Strategic Documents
- Tourism 2050
- Aotearoa Circle
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment reports
- Tourism Futures Taskforce
Tourism 2050 - A Blueprint for Impact
Enriching Aotearoa New Zealand through a flourishing tourism ecosystem.
This Vision sets the aspiration for the tourism industry to be a prosperous and successful industry over the long term that contributes broadly to the betterment of Aotearoa New Zealand and its people.
Aotearoa Circle
Tourism Sector Climate Change Scenarios
These scenarios provide critical structure to an uncertain future for the Tourism sector, detailing what the sector will look like under different climate scenarios and serving as the foundational document for the soon-to-be released Tourism Adaptation Roadmap.
Read the report: Tourism Sector Climate Change Scenarios
Tourism Sector Adaptation Roadmap
The Tourism Adaptation Roadmap, written in collaboration with public and private sector industry experts, will help ensure the sector is resilient and reducing the impact of climate change, creating an abundant regenerative tourism sector that ensures people, planet and prosperity are balanced.
Read the report: Tourism Sector Adaptation Roadmap
IPCC report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment reports
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment is one of three Officers of Parliament, the others being the Ombudsman and the Controller and Auditor-General.
Read the latest PCE reports here, including:
- Not 100% – but four steps closer to sustainable tourism (2021)
- Pristine, popular... imperilled? The environmental consequences of projected tourism growth
Tourism Futures Taskforce
The New Zealand Tourism Futures Taskforce is an independent public private partnership leading the thinking on the future of tourism in New Zealand. MBIE provides Secretariat services to the Taskforce.
Read the Tourism Futures Taskforce interim report – We are Aotearoa
The Better Work Action Plan aims to address key systemic challenges affecting the tourism workforce that make it difficult for the industry to attract and retain quality employees.
Read the Better Work Action Plan.
