New Zealand urged to mandate higher safety standards for adventure tourism
Photo Credit: Tandem skydiving in action in New Zealand. Flickr / Heath Powell
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New Zealand has too much riding on its reputation for adventure tourism to be anything but vigilant in vetting operators, but accidents are going to occur anywhere people are jumping out of planes on a daily basis.
The parents of four tourists who died in a 2010 plane crash have written to New Zealand's Prime Minister urging him to improve safety measures for adventure sports in the country.
Prime Minister John Key's office confirmed Monday that the families wrote following the release of a coroner's report into the skydiving plane crash that killed nine people. The families from England, Ireland, Germany and Australia said New Zealand needs to take action to assure tourists it's a safe place.
Key's office had no immediate response. Last y
