Whakaari/White Island court case will change the level of accepted risk in NZ's tourism industry
- Written by Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management/ Adjunct Associate Professor, University of South Australia
An Auckland court has found Whakaari Management Limited (WML) guilty of breaching workplace safety laws relating to the Whakaari/White Island eruption in 2019. This decision could have implications for anyone involved in adventure tourism in New Zealand.
When Whakaari erupted on December 9 2019 there were 47 people on the island. The eruption...
