Our Services

• Strategic advice, policy reviews, investigations

• Planning studies at all levels

• Resource assessments, feasibility studies, development options advice

• Project design, project management, project reviews

• Market analysis, visitor research, marketing plans

• National park development, visitor management, interpretation plans

• Community assessments, ecotourism development programmes

• Product development plans, concession negotiations, business advice and plans

• Environmental impact assessments

• Event management, event assessments

• Submissions, proposals

• Study tours, mentoring and on the job training

• Resource consent applications including expert advice

TRC’s Expertise

In Nature, Culture and Adventure Tourism • TRC’s people have had direct, practical experience with successful nature, culture and adventure tourism. TRC’s consultants know what is required to develop sustainable, often sophisticated, tourism products based on environmental and cultural resources. This involves subtle interactions of government agencies, private sector interests and local communities.

In the Asia Pacific Region • TRC has worked in more than 30 countries. TRC's people have up-to-date knowledge of world tourism trends, detailed understanding of Asia Pacific's tourist markets, and first hand experience of tourism products throughout the region. Many projects TRC has been associated with have won international ecotourism awards.

In Conservation Management • TRC’s people know the language of conservation and natural resource management and are able to see the issues of tourism in national parks and protected areas through the eyes of resource managers. Where possible, New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) will make people available to TRC from its pool of excellent talent in protected area management.

In Economic and Social Development • TRC’s people understand development strategies and have extensive experience of ecotourism as a tool for change. TRC projects regularly combine “bottom-up”, participatory planning techniques with hard-edged market analysis and business assessments. Many of TRC’s international projects have poverty eradication as the overriding rationale.

TRC’s Awards

In 2004, the TRC-led and NZAID-funded, Rinjani Trek Ecotourism Programme in Lombok, Indonesia was the Destination Stewardship category winner for the World Legacy Awards, sponsored by Conservation International and the National Geographic Traveller Magazine. In 2002, the TRC designed and implemented NZAID Bouma National Heritage Park Project was National Park category winner of the British Airways Tourism for Tomorrow Award. TRC also designed UNESCO’s Nam Ha Ecotourism Project, which won a United Nations Development Award in 2001.