The team at Wanaka Wine Tours are extremely passionate about Wanaka and our surrounding environs.
To enable future generations to enjoy this wonderful part of the world, we have to do all we can to look after this place.
To this end here’s what we’re doing:
Donating to the Love Wanaka Community Fund
What is Love Wanaka?
Love Wanaka is a community fund that exists so that visitors to our rohe (region), and the businesses connecting them, can play an active role in the protection and regeneration of this place.
Funds raised are used for localised climate, conservation, and biodiversity action.
From the 1st September 2023, we’ve been donating $10.00 per person for bookings on the following Wine Tours:
Taste of Wanaka
Quintessential Wanaka
Private Full Day
Private Half Day
Why are we doing this?
Climate change is here, and it’s accelerating. With over half of our region’s economic activity tied to tourism, travel has a huge part to play in our ecological footprint, both locally and globally. Tourism equates to more than 11% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and with international travel only set to grow, now is the time to act. Love Wānaka exists to change the way we travel, for good; giving everyone who visits, lives, or does business in Wānaka, the chance to be part of protecting our home, now and for generations to come.
More information on Love Wanaka Community Fund can be found here.
If you’d like to make a donation towards this fantastic initiative, please do so by going here.
Sustainable Tourism
We’ve been giving back to the community and the Central Otago region since 2005. Co-Director Megan Williams was a founding trustee of the Te Kākano Aotearoa Trust and was involved as a trustee and fundraiser for over 10 years. She then fundraised to start a large project to protect local waterways, which morphed into the organisation WAI Wānaka. During this same period, we also gave hundreds of hours to help get the Wānaka Community Hub built to house social service organisations in the region.
As local owner/operators we have of course, looked internally to reduce our own impacts. We had our carbon footprint measured by Environmental Accounting Services and have gone about reducing everything we can until the ideal electric vehicle comes along!
We have an action plan under the Tourism Sustainability Commitment to ensure that we focus on holistic actions that move us towards being regenerative as a business. For example, we’ve reduced our rubbish, completely removing single use products, have installed solar for our (home) office, work with suppliers towards a sustainable supply chain, support local groups with vouchers, plant trees locally and are upgrading to more efficient vehicles.
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