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If you're environmentally and socially conscious and choose to visit places where you get a chance to volunteer and learn new ways to live on the planet then you are probably an eco tourist.
Destinations with a diverse flora and fauna and a rich cultural heritage are primarily what attract an eco tourist. Several sources define eco tourism as a concept, an experience that enriches the lives of those who make it a point to delve into researching and understanding the environment around them. Eco tourism gives us insights into our impact on our environment as well as inculcates a deep appreciation of natural habitats around the world.
At it's best, eco tourism minimises the negative impact of conventional tourism on the environment and also reinforces the cultural integrity of local people. Therefore, in addition to evaluating environmental and cultural factors, an important part of ecotourism is to encourage recycling, energy efficiency, water conservation, and to create economic opportunities for local communities.
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I don't think I'd be satisfied with a month or two of NZ in all my lifetime.  I'd like to keep it as a happy escape, a retreat that's always open. And I'd feel best about it if there was a business waiting for me there. New Zealand is brimming with businesses that you can get yourself into. Keep them going while you're away.
There's immense choice of businesses from a picture framing venture for sale by a couple who've devoted their life to it and now need to slow down. Or there's the photographic business for sale under 50 grand. Of course food makes the best business sense anywhere... get yourself a Steak and Ale House in Hastings for 100-150 grand or a bakery house for 50-100 grand. Choose from cafes or health products set ups. Give rein to your won secret entrepreneurial dreams and just take off.

The Kaukapakapa Hotel is a house, business and a lifestyle all in one. I'm all for anyone luring me with a lifestyle! For NZD $1,900,00, the hotel is a revitalized country pub and is bursting with the potential to expand further into accommodation and restaurant ventures. The hotel comes with a public bar, juke box, pool table, landscaped gardens and a restaurant in a separate area. The deal will also bring you dishwashers and microwaves, fryers, and hotplates and more. Eight separate motel units and separate 4 bedroom house for yourself or for a manager you lure in to take care of the place in your absence is also part of the property. How I'd love to take off and buy this place!

A furnished 13 bedroom bed and breakfast is just an hour away from an airport. The property comes with  restaurant, english bar, dance floor and beautiful suites. With a golf course (9 hole short links), tennis court, swimming pool, croquet, spa, sauna, massage rooms, gym, full size billiard room and full conference facilities, the place is also great for business get- together's or wedding parties and the like. A gazebo on the lake makes it an ideal romantic setting. Situated on 25 acres of streams and rainforests and landscaped gardens, it's a lovely place not just for a boutique hotel but also if you wish to use it as a private residence instead.

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