Twenty leading tourism experts will converge on Queenstown for a new, two-day tourism summit next month. Organised by the University of Otago's Department of Tourism, the inaugural Tourism Policy School will focus on the impact, value, and sustainability of tourism. Speakers will include World Travel and Tourism Council member Helen Marano, Department of Conservation director general Lou Sanson, Tourism Industry Aotearoa's Bruce Bassett, and Tourism Export Council NZ chief executive Judy Chen. "Queenstown is facing its own unique issues of sustained high tourism growth, infrastructure and capacity constraints, social and environmental impacts and social licence. The Tourism Policy School will be opened by Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis, and is a full day event on March 8.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 06, 2019 23:26 UTC