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Whakarewarewa tourist activities today

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Whakarewarewa tourist activities today

Tourist guide Mikaire Norris shows visitors around hot pools at Whakarewarewa. The Whakarewarewa thermal reserve is run by the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. In 1963 an act of Parliament empowered its predecessor, the Rotorua Arts and Crafts Institute, to take over the management of the thermal reserve from the Tourism and Publicity Department.

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Paul Tapsell, Te Arawa – Economic and social change, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1551/whakarewarewa-tourist-activities-today (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Tapsell, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.