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Dan introduces the New Zealand Parliament's executive wing, known as the Beehive, highlighting its unique design by a Scottish architect and its construction timeline from 1969 to 1979. The document then shifts focus to eco-tourism, discussing its definitions, benefits, and differences from alternative and sustainable tourism. It emphasizes the importance of responsible travel and the positive impacts of voluntarism on local communities and environments.

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Dan introduces the New Zealand Parliament's executive wing, known as the Beehive, highlighting its unique design by a Scottish architect and its construction timeline from 1969 to 1979. The document then shifts focus to eco-tourism, discussing its definitions, benefits, and differences from alternative and sustainable tourism. It emphasizes the importance of responsible travel and the positive impacts of voluntarism on local communities and environments.

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Good morning everyone, can you all see and hear me? Good.

Now my name is Dan and I am your guide


this morning for our tour of New Zealand parliament Now we are standing in the executive wing of the
parliament complex. This is where all the government ministers have their offices and where the prime
minister and cabinet meet. Now most people here refer to this building as a beehive and no prices for
guessing why it is golden beehive. That’s right, it shapes exactly like a traditional beehive and it’s one of
the most famous building in Wellington. Now I will start with some background information about the
design and construction of the building. It may come a surprise for you to learn that the architect wasn’t
a New Zealander. No, in fact it was designed by a Scottish architect ……… He designed the concept for the
building during a visit he made to our city in the 1964. His idea was all the offices and rooms would
radiate from the central core. Now the Beehive was built in stages over ten years. Construction began on
building the underground car park and a basement at the end of 1960s, in
1969. And over the next decade the remaining floor were constructed.
Yes, one decade later, in 1979, the first parliamentary offices moved in.
As you can see the Beehive is pretty high. In fact, its seventy-two meters
tall. It has 10 floor above ground and additional fourth floor built up. So
that is total of fourteen floors all together, that means there is plenty of
spaces for many facilities available to the member of parliament and
ministers to use. These include a small theatre and a television studio.
Now if you all just like to follow me, we can make out while inside the
building itself.

Good morning everyone, let’s make a start.Now over the last few weeks
looked to keys area in the travel and tourism……… We’ve already
charted the origin and developments of tourism and we also have looked
to the negative effects of tourism on both local community and the
environment. So, in this lecture, we are going to focus on ways and
which tourism ….. benefit local people and natural areas if they travel
responsively. And this kind of travel is known as eco-tourism. Now there
is no one definition of eco-tourism. In fact it can be interpretive in a
number of different ways. This means it represents different things to
different people and sometimes people misunderstand eco-tourism all
together. They think of it as just spending time in natural areas.
However, the truth is far more complex. In …. It aims to minimize the
negative impacts of tourism what we look at early wrong at the cause.
Problem such as litter and water pollution, crime and so on and at the
same time , to encourage travellers to have positive impacts on the
places they visited. Now there are many other words to describe the
similar ideas to eco-tourism. In fact the term alternative tourism
sustainable tourism or responsible tourism are often used to mean the
same thing. But in fact, although the main ideas behind them are similar,
they are small diffrences. And let’s briefly look at these now. Alternative
tourism is any kinds of tourism but it’s not mass tourism. And by mass
tourism we mean hundreds if not thousands of people going on. For
example, there’s two weeks a year beach holiday or traditional
sightseeing tours. Alternative tourism include travel such as backpacking
and adventure holiday. And the term alternative also includes eco-
tourism which is what we mainly focus on today. Now what’s about
sustainable tourism, sustainable tourism has the same ideal as eco-
tourism but it is limited to natural areas, so you can have a sustainable
tourist experience in a city or a town and then we have responsible
tourism. What does that mean exactly? Now basically this involves
acting responsively and respectfully when we travel oversea and what do
we mean by respectful? Well being respectful might involves asking for
permission to take photographs or going to someone’s home observing
some of the customs of the local community such as: dress, or making
an effort to learn the language. Now eco-tourism can be passive or
active. So what do we mean by passive tourism? Well let’s think of
specific examples: a passive tourist might by their holiday package from
a company that donates part of their profit to local charities or a passive
tourist might book environmentally friendly accommodation. This mean
choosing to stay in a hotel which may use solar power as a source of
energy or changing sheets of towels for their guests less frequently. Now
active tourism away from people to enjoy everything that nature has to
suffer, and at the same time enables them to leave a positive mark on the
environment. Now this kind of eco tourist is sometimes prefered to as an
vonluntarist that is a combination of volunteer and tourist, you get the
idea. Now voluntarists prefer to experience a new place in a active way
and this doesn’t mean sitting in a tourist’s bus or listening to a pre-
recored guide. Basically, they want to physically connect with the place
they are visiting, and this includes connecting with humans and animals.
Now there approached to travel can make a real difference and can really
benefit the places and the community they choose to visit. Voluntarist
oftens help local people construct and repair buildings or it could mean
to be wiling to help the community with nature conservation. So let’s
think some specific examples of this kind of work in action. Now
voluntarist has helped local communities to plant hundreds of trees and
instore identifined sites in the rain forests of Costa Rica. They also help
with the sustainable food production in Cuba and in Jamaica they have
been involved in cleaning up of local rivers. And in Thailand, they work
on building ecologically sustainable reforested habitats. Now some of
the works that voluntarists do also involved looking after dangerous
animals like the giant panda project in Japan or the animal century
project in Ecuador. Now this work doesn’t just involved interacting with
wild life but involved educating local people about the need of
protecting wild life. Now before we explore wild life tourism in more
detail, does anyone have any questions?

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