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The Cultural Statistics programme is operated jointly by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage and Statistics New Zealand.

This report updates, from existing data sources, the Demand for Cultural Tourism research conducted by Colmar Brunton for Tourism New Zealand in 2003. The report was produced for the Ministry by Angus and Associates. The Ministry would like to thank the Ministry of Tourism and Tourism New Zealand for access to their research data.

Paper to New Zealand Planning Institute 2005 Annual Conference. 

Martin Matthews, Chief Executive,  Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Presentation to the SOLGM 2008 Conference (September 2008) as part of the panel discussion on Cultural Well-being

Cultural Well-Being Brochure

The paper explores how regional councils are approaching their obligations to cultural well-being and identifies further opportunities for regional connections with cultural well-being.

This excel spreadsheet contains a range of cultural well-being indicators developed by local authorities.  It was first published by the Ministry in 2006.

In this paper, Keith Nurse  examins both the “culture of sustainable development’ in terms of how

it has evolved as a global agenda and how the cultural arena can be facilitated by the

construct of sustainable development. 

The paper was prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat,  London in 2006.

Ever wondered why we have daylight saving?  A brief history of daylight saving can be found here.

This is a guide to the connections between community cultural development and health, ecologically sustainable development, public housing and place, rural revitalization, community strengthening, active citizenship, social inclusion and cultural diversity.

Deborah Mills is a consultant who specializes in cultural policy. In this paper, she considers the significance of culture in the planning process, and suggests ‘ways of seeing' culture within the functions of local government. This is a seminal article in theunderstanding of cultural well-being.

Cultural tourism was specifically identified in the NZTS 2010 as a sector requiring further development in order to maximise its potential. To meet some key recommendations included in the NZTS 2010, research was undertaken enhance the understanding of the role of cultural tourism in the tourism sector and domestic and international visitors’ demand for cultural tourism experiences.

Find out  about the Department of Conservation and its work here.

The Department of Conservation works with iwi and hapu in almost all aspects of its work. Pou Kura Taiao in each conservancy stay in close contact with Maori communities