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- Title
- Making New Zealand - Tourism
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
This episode of documentary series Making New Zealand dives into an economic powerhouse — tourism. The eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886 not only destroyed the unique Pink and White Terraces; it wiped out a fledgling tourism industry. But soon other wonders like the Waitomo Caves and the Southern Alps were attracting international visitors. World wars dented the industry's growth, but after the war tourism pioneers like the Wigley family, Hylton Hensman and Trevor and Heather Gamble from com...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 2019
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/making-nz-tourism-2019
- Related subjects
- tourism / air new zealand / air travel / new zealand scenery / landscapes / money / public image / rotorua / gdp / pink and white terraces / tarawera / lake rotomahana / 1880s / ann somerville / james rickard / tourist routes / doubtful sound / milford sound / fiordland / tourists / geothermal / margaret mcclure / justin te hau / magical terraces / karakia / sophia hinerangi / thermal springs districts act / 1881 / john waaka / whakarewarewa / 1886 / tarawera eruption / mt tarawera / volcanic eruption / waitomo caves / robert tahi / tane tinorau / fred mace / hiria kohe-love / cave system / entrepreneurs / ladders / stairs / upper chamber / 1870s / 1884 / the hermitage / 1901 / department of tourism / promotions / marketing / showcase / thomas donne / importing animals / game shooting / deer / stags / shooting deer / wealthy sports / chamois / hunting / southern alps / 1903 / the scenery preservation act / whakarewarewa village / geysers / boiling mud / sulphur flats / accidents / vandalism / the coffee pot / 1908 / rotorua arts and crafts institute / rotorua bathhouse / curative waters / health spa / health conditions / hydrotherapy / spa town / model pa / māori-pakeha relations / rodolph wigley / private venture / private investment / mount cook motors / sally middleton / ice skating / tobogan / skiing / ski trips / winter holidays / mountaineering / 1914 / ww1 / world war one / david clarke / train travel / concession passes / 1926 / bay of islands / zane grey / celebrity / bruce smith / american author / big game fishing / fly fishing / trophy fish / fisherman's el dorado / guide rangi / rangitiaria dennan / great depression / souvenirs / gift shops / water skiing / hylton hensman / grant hensman / skyline chalet / ian hamilton / john dumble / gondola / skyline tours / liquor laws / sly grogging / 1974 / gondola accident / adventure tourism / risk / health and safety / bill hamilton / jet boat / shotover river / trevor gamble / heather gamble / shotover jet / the chateau / ww2 / world war two / returned servicemen / mt cook air services / john evans / queenstown / mt aspiring / wanaka / ski planes / private enterprise / hospitality scene / 1955 / tourist hotel corporation / 1957 / 1957 fire / trans tasman link / qantas / 1987 / henry van asch / aj hackett bungy / bungy jump / kawarau bungy / nz on air / new zealand on air / 1989 / waitangi claim for waitomo caves / waitomo caves waitangi claim / rikki swete / troy harbottle / authentic experience / authenticity / advertising / 1990s / pure nz / marketing campaign / lord of the rings trilogy / middle earth / church of the good shepherd / kaikoura whale watch / environmental protection / 100% pure new zealand / 1960s / trans-tasman link / david williamson / hermitage / fishing / postcard / māori-pākehā relations / māori arts and crafts institute / retractable skiis / mount cook airline / henry wigley / tūrangi / tūwharetoa / post-war boom / māori guides / mount aspiring / mount tarawera / mount cook / mt cook / aoraki / dean eyre / queenstown gondola / liquor licence / tourism accidents / lord of the rings films / skyline queenstown / ngāi tahu tourism / ngāi tahu / te ao māori / plastic māori / hermitage fire / kaiārahi tours / whale watch kaikoura / 100 percent pure new zealand / hermitage lodge / jet airlliner
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