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BBC News By Shaimaa Khalil image captionA jet boat on the Shotover River New Zealand is hopeful that a recently opened travel bubble with Australia will rekindle its pandemic-battered tourism industry. However, many are also seeing an opportunity to rethink how to make the sector more climate friendly. New Zealand s Queenstown - a popular tourist spot - is throbbing with activity. To see and hear all the boats and the screaming and the complete joy… it puts a smile on all of our faces, said Jolanda Cave, the general manager at Shotover Jet - one of the most established adventure companies there. ....
It truly was a race against time as I tumbled my way through 20 PowerPoint slides at the rate of 20 seconds per slide. I was new to the discipline of PechaKucha – the art of the seven-minute slide presentation – before I tackled one at the recent National Rural Health Conference ....
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Auckland company VanLab is among those affected if regulations outlaw porta-potties in freedom camping vehicles. VanLab has sold hundreds of campervan conversion kits since launching 18 months ago, but company owner Andy Jones is a worried man. Changes to freedom camping regulations could throw a spanner in the works for his business, rental fleets, and thousands of campervan, caravan and motorhome owners facing the possibility of costly upgrades to ensure their vehicles are classed as self-contained. Jones, an aeronautical engineer and former McLaren supercar designer, uses 3D scanning technology to create custom-made conversion kits that slot together like a giant jigsaw, and he says moveable porta-potties make the best use of available space. ....
Dean Hearne In a parallel world, the aristocratic Mitford sisters might have set up a highly profitable decorating business. Exhibit A is the transformation of Chatsworth by the late Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, née Deborah Mitford, from a dark, unlived-in temporary school - the state rooms became dormitories during the Second World War - into one of the finest country houses in England, where simple clay pots of geraniums enlivened rooms furnished with antique treasures. Exhibit B is the trailer for Emily Mortimer’s upcoming BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s 1945 novel The Pursuit of Love, with a line-up of stars including Lily James, Dominic West and Andrew Scott - and a wealth of covetable interiors, from a gilt-drenched, mirrored drawing room to a gold-tiled Art Deco bathroom. ....