Consultancy
Tertiary Institutions
Able to support other tertiary Institutions in their move towards sustainability
Check out the work we have done with Otago Polytechnic. Download the Otago Polytechnic 'Simple Pledge' here.
And our collaboration with STENZ (Sustainability in Tertiary Education in New Zealand).
Local Government
We have been working in capacity with a number of local government bodies on both long and short term projects.
- Training
- Project development
- LTCCPs and Organisational Management
Sustainable Tourism Advisors
The Centre manages two of the nine ‘Sustainable Tourism Advisors in Regions’ (STAR) programmes that are run throughout the country in partnership with the Ministry for Tourism. The aim is to help operators improve business sustainability and ensure more tourism operators visibly deliver on New Zealand 100% Pure brand promise.
These programmes are the Queenstown Lakes Sustainable Business Programme and the Central Otago Make a Difference Programme. Project managers Sharon Schindler and Ella Lawton respectively work with businesses both individually and collectively to meet them where they are at with their ‘sustainability goals’. Whereby some businesses have the sights set on achieving Qualmark Green for Responsible Tourism Operators, whilst others choose a holistic approach by using a systems thinking framework, the 'Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development'.
Technical visits
- Business, local government, housing showcase in situ under development for Central Otago and Queenstown.
- Rating sustainable product and service.
- Procurement and parternship agreements.
Partners
Central Otago District Council
Central Otago District Council has overall responsibility for delivering local government throughout Central Otago. Central Otago District Council (CODC) has become known as a district council with a difference through a number of future thinking initiatives over the last few years.
Systems Thinking and Sustainable Practice
Central Otago District Council are the leading local Council in Systems Thinking and whole systems view of sustainable practice. CODC and the CAP have worked collaboratively on a number of projects and occasions to support local businesses and organisations to better understand sustainable practice.
Destination Queenstown
Destination Queenstown (DQ) is the regional tourism organisation responsible for the marketing of Queenstown as the Southern Hemisphere's premier four season lake and alpine resort.
DQ works with local businesses, including tourism operators, the hospitality industry, accommodation providers, retailers and service sectors to promote the region.
"Destination Queenstown’s role is to co-ordinate, facilitate, motivate and develop the marketing of Queenstown as the premier four season lake and alpine resort destination in the Southern Hemisphere".
Lake Wanaka Tourism
Tourism Strategy Group & Ministry of Economic Development
Queenstown Chamber of Commerce
Queenstown Lakes District Council
Sustainable Wanaka
The Natural Step
The Natural Step is an international not-for-profit organisation dedicated to education, advisory work and research in sustainable development. Since 1989, we have worked with thousands of corporations, municipalities, academic institutions and not-for-profit organisations that have proven that moving strategically toward sustainability leads to new opportunities, reduced costs, and dramatically reduced ecological and social impacts.
Otago Polytechnic is an official partner of The Natural Step Foundation Aotearoa New Zealand. This relationship has allowed the creation and development of a range of tools and researches to be shared amount organisations.
Tourism Central Otago
The World of Difference has become a pivotal brand for Central Otago tourism and products. The Council through the Regional Tourism Authority, endorsed an approach of Destination Management. This allows the many small communities in Central to work together whilst maintaining their own identify.
Council has endorsed a destination management approach for Central Otago. Destination management is essentially about communities and cross agency co-operation in areas of planning and environmental management, provision of visitor information centres, management of infrastructure, marketing and site management. Because the tourism industry is complex, involving a mixture of private companies, local and central government and communities, there is a need to build and maintain effective working partnerships between these players if a sustainable future is to be achieved. The notion of managing a destination calls for a whole-of-community approach.
As part of a destination management approach looking at what other successful tourism destinations have done and the way they do business is important.
