ANALYSIS: Adventure tourism safety regulation is a private affair. Following 37 tourist deaths in the four years before 2009, and a heartfelt plea from a bereaved British father, then prime minister, and tourism minister, Sir John Key, ordered an overhaul of adventure tourism safety. The result was private adventure tourism companies paying private auditing companies to conduct the safety audits they needed to stay in business. STUFF In 2009, prime minister Sir John Key ordered an overhaul of adventure tourism safety. On Worksafe's Adventure Tourism register White Island Tours' "Walking on a Live Volcano" is the only volcano activity.

Source: Stuff December 21, 2019 16:07 UTC