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Ecotourism Course Brings Canadians to Otago
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
A group of Canadian students from Brock University in Ontario have escaped the freezing Canadian winter to participate in a summer course in Ecotourism at the University of Otago.
(via Otago Daily Times) Mark Jemison (20), a third-year BA (Hons) student majoring in tourism and environment at Brock University, said he was enjoying the "big improvement" in weather since arriving.
However, that was not the main reason he and his fellow Canadian students had come - Dunedin was a good place to study ecotourism issues, he said.
Prof James Higham, who heads the Otago tourism department, was "excited and enthusiastic" about the chance to work more closely with staff and students from Brock University, with which Otago University has an academic exchange agreement.
Their home university is situated in the city of St Catharines and is part of a Unesco Biosphere Reserve. They also live close to Niagara Falls, an international tourism feature, which attracts more than 10 million people each year.
Some Canadian students have studied at the annual Otago University summer school previously, but this is the first time a group of Canadians has taken part.
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