Up to 2019, Aotearoa New Zealand had 3.9 million overseas tourists arriving and travelling through the country mainly using rental cars, campervans, motorhomes, self contained car camping and lessor extent flying. \
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Yes, Aotearoa New Zealand three ‘scenic’ long distance passenger train services – the Coastal Pacific, TranzAlpine and the Northern Explorer, pre-planned coach tours, ‘scenic’ coach services like Great Sights, Awsomenz, etc, with multistop ‘point to point’ bus and coach services like Skip and InterCity and ‘Hop on/hop off’ bus touring services like Kiwi Experience, etc for the budget conscious traveler but the predominate travel modes were rental cars, campervans/motorhomes, self contained car camping and flying. \
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Unfortunately, Aotearoa New Zealand tourism industry operated a dirty tourism industry and due to the lack of forward long term planning, had a major impact on local communities and the environment. \
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The documentary explores the impact of mass tourism has on communities, their residents, on a country’s infrastructure, environment, pollution and the impacts of fossil fuel based emissions –
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With Aotearoa New Zealand boarders fully opening from June 2022, is it time for Aotearoa New Zealand to have a sustainable environmentally friendly tourism industry that the prime mode of transport is on a sustainable environmentally friendly, easy to use, ‘stop to stop’ [national integrated national passenger transport network](https://publictransportforum.nz/articles/article/connecting-communities-2030-01-02-2022) connecting many of Aotearoa New Zealand unique tourism destinations and attractions across the country’s 3 islands being the North Island, South Island and Stewart Island.
