NZ’s first treetop walk planned

Friday 17 Feb 2012

 
It is hoped the NZ$7.7 million tourist attraction on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island will be finished by the end of this year. Australian eco-tourism company Canopy01 plans to start building the 450-metre-long Hokitika Rimu Treetop Walk in March after consents were granted late last year.

The treetop walk would be suspended about 25m above the forest floor, offering visitors views of native bush and Lake Mahinapua. It would end in a spiral staircase to a Southern Alps lookout tower, 47m high.

The company, which had developed treetop walks in Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales, believed the project would each year inject more than NZ$7m into the local economy and attract 175,000 visitors. It predicted it would employ 10 to 15 fulltime equivalent staff in summer to operate the business.


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