Crowd Control

November 2017

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November 2017

Rob Roy Glacier in Mt Aspiring National Park is one of many sites under increasing visitor pressure. Photo: Andrea Schaffer/Creative Commons
New Zealand is grappling with a rapidly rising number of tourists, but we haven’t reached the crest of the wave yet. DOC expects the number of national park visitors to double in the next six years, when the number of international visitors is expected to hit nearly five million. George Driver looks into how the […]
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