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Kōrero: Tourist industry

Carbon footprints

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Carbon footprints

A common piece of advice to back-country visitors is to ‘take only photos, leave only footprints’. This 2008 Michael Moreu cartoon plays on that advice and the fact that many international tourists have flown halfway around the world to get here, burning plenty of carbon in the process.

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Reference: DCDL-0004790

by Mike Moreu

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Margaret McClure, Tourist industry – Challenges to the industry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/cartoon/23219/carbon-footprints (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Margaret McClure, i tāngia i te 2 March 2010.