24 Sep 2021

Govt keen for tougher adventure tourism rules after Whakaari

From Checkpoint, 5:29 pm on 24 September 2021

The government wants to introduce tougher safety rules for adventure activity operators, in response to the deadly 2019 Whakaari eruption.

Forty-seven people - most of them tourists - were on the island when it erupted and 22 were killed while others were seriously injured. Our reporter Samantha Gee has the story.