AS91430Conduct Geographic Research with Consultation

5 Credits

Tourism – Local Impacts and Issues. Adds 1.4 billion to Wellington economy each

year. Estimated to provide over 16’000 full time

jobs for the region. Domestic Tourists provide $1.5 million a day

to the region. 3.8 million domestic visitors each year. 4.3 million international visitors each year.

So all these visitors must have an impact on the region!

New statistics highlight tourism value to Wellington region 25 August 2014 Tourism supports a higher proportion of jobs in the

Greater Wellington region than many other parts of the country, according to new figures released today by the Tourism Industry Association New Zealand (TIA).

More than one in six (15.7%) of jobs held by Kapiti Coast residents are supported by tourism*, while the industry supports 15.3% of Upper Hutt residents’ jobs, 13.6% in South Wairarapa, 13.1% in Porirua, 13% in Carterton, 9.3% in Masterton and Hutt City, and 6.3% in Wellington City

Possible Impacts/Issues Transport crowding? Extra rubbish/sewage/pollution produced? Impact of local people?

Noise/drinking/disruption? Dilution of traditional way of life? Intrusion into everyday work/life? Gain extra facilities built for tourists? More money to spend on local infrastructure? Sharing of cultures? Damage to local ecology/wildlife?

Info on Tourism http://

www.pce.parliament.nz/assets/Uploads/Reports/pdf/Pre97-reports/Management-of-the-Environmental-Effects-Associated-with-the-Tourism-Sector-Review-of-Literature-on-Environmental-Effects-Nov-1977.pdf

Parliamentary Report on impact of tourism 1997 http://

www.stuff.co.nz/business/69047664/wellington-primed-to-capitalise-on-thriving-tourism-industry

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11201600 http://

www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1502/S00265/happy-holiday-season-for-wellington-tourism-industry.htm

https://www.tianz.org.nz/main/news-detail/index.cfm/2014/08/new-statistics-highlight-tourism-value-to-wellington-region/

http://www.med.govt.nz/sectors-industries/tourism/pdf-docs-library/tourism-research-and-data/other-research-and-reports/research-projects-and-reports/tourism-research-scholarship-reports/Tour.0150%20-%20Urban%20environmental%20management%20by%20tourism%20organisations%20in%20Wellington.pdf

Evironmental management of tourism http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10857069 Tourist driving in NZ

What are the impacts of Tourism in Wellington? Create a mind map on the impacts of Tourism

in Wellington. Find out the positive and negative impacts. Think about the Social, Economic and

Environmental impacts.

Producing a research plan.Your Topic

Devise a plan of investigation

Gather and process relevant information

Put the report together

1. State a Geographical problem or issue. This is where you refine your ideas into a

question or statement which you feel you could investigate successfully.

Posing a question is usually a more interesting approach than making a statement. It is quite acceptable, for example, to state your topic as “A study of the distribution of the residences of year 12 students for this school and the explanation of this pattern”, but the question “Where do students in Year 12 live and what influences this pattern?” is more appealing and makes it easier to put in suggested answers or hypothesis.

Possible geographical issues. Has Tourism been a positive influence on the

Wellington Region? Has Tourism been a negative influence on the

Wellington Region? What impact has Tourism had on the

environment in the Wellington region? What social impact has Tourism had on the

Wellington Region? Does the Wellington Region benefit from the

Tourism Industry?

2. Justify your choice of topic. You may be required to explain why you chose

your particular topic. Is it an area that particularly interests you? Link the topic to a particular geographical

concept (change, location, accessibility, distance, perception, process….)

3. Select the aims. The aims expand on the geographical problem

or issue stated in step 1. For example the aims of the topic “Where do

students in year 12 live and what influences this pattern?” are to discover: Aim 1 : Where do students in Year 12 live? Aim 2 : Do students in Year 12 come from similar

socio-economic backgrounds? Aim 3 : Does the availability of transport influence

their enrolment at this particular school?

4. State the hypothesis. Hypothesis are expected answers to the

questions stated in the aims and will be based on your observations and experience. (They are only calculated guesses at this stage – they may be wrong)

They are what you expect to find! E.g.

Hypothesis 1: The year 12 students will come from the northern suburbs.

Hypothesis 2: The northern suburbs house mainly middle income families.

Devise a plan of investigation! How are you going to find the answers to the questions?

You must use Primary Data (information you collect!) This can be collected from interviews, local government

records, personal observation and measurement. You can also use Secondary Data = information someone

else has collected.

Examples of Primary Data Questionnaires Land-use surveys Observing pedestrian and traffic flows Requests for information from local and national government. Photographs Environmental surveys