ABSTRACT
In adoption of environmentalism and eco-friendly worldviews there are special examples of focused and directed tourism adopted in communities worldwide (Alhaddi, 2015; Dwyer, 2005; Elkington, 1998). The two examples from New Zealand represent acceptable and emulatory practices that can be shared to demonstrate the importance of local decision making and support and resourcing to deliver on sustainability in the triple-bottom line philosophy. Not only do these examples have relevance for stakeholders globally in good practice they also indicate the extent to which communities may learn ways to move forward to accrue new knowledges to be shared widely within the areas of expertise in tourism management but in the allied and important roles of developers wishing to offer cohesive plans that support communities’ all important residents in their endeavours to create a body of practices that delivers new sources of social capital and reinforces community habitus and purpose (Duxbury and Jeannotte, 2012; Heimtun, 2007; Sherlock, 2002). This volume has been designed to share praxis and academic resources in a repository of data previously not widely distributed beyond institutional high education. It is timely to share knowledge in a freely accessible open source manner.
