Web Resources
- Transport Accidents Investigation Commission
- This is one of the best sources of information on accidents. Although this is not confined to tourist accidents, statistics can be assembled by working through the accident occurrence report abstracts.
Library Resources
- Safety Management in the Adventure Tourism Industry: Voluntary and Regulatory Approaches, Ministry of Commerce
- Identifies 1995 as a year of well publicised accidents to tourists and analyses the impact of this as well as outlining the development of safety standards for white water rafting, flying and other activities. It does not include accident statistics.
- Aviation Occurrence Report, Marine Occurrence Report and Railway Occurrence Report
- Some copies of these reports are held in the Central Library.
Catalogue
Do a subject search of the catalogue using some of the following terms:
Local newspapers
Canterbury tourist accident information can be found using the PAPERS database. Try a subject search using the terms:
or a keyword search using terms such as:
The Press
Historical information about tourism accidents and disasters can be found using the index to The Press on microfiche in the Aotearoa New Zealand Centre. From 1900-1954 indexing terms include:
- accidents
- accidents-air
- accidents-boating
- accidents-drowning
- accidents-mountaineering
From 1954-1994 see death-disasters-accidents, which are further split into categories such as aviation, boating, drowning, mountaineering. The microfiche index ends in 1993 and is replaced by the PAPERS database which only indexes Canterbury related stories.
