STEAMing Ahead with Future-focused Adaptive Management - A Marlborough Tourism Case Study

We can all agree that Marlborough is home to world-class wineries and the beautiful Marlborough Sounds – both offer fantastic tourism experiences. But there are multi-dimensional challenges to these, with severe weather events and biodiversity loss, calling for changes to industry strategy.

Adapting Marlborough’s tourism industry to a changing environment means innovation, planning and implementing change, now. Without this, our tourism industry won’t thrive and it may not survive. Tourism stakeholders need more than great products—they need the ability to strategically adapt. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) has a role in this. Come and learn what we can do together.

Join Deborah Early, PhD as she shares insights from the Adaptation Futures Conference 2025 - the premier international adaptation event recently held in Christchurch. Into that, she will weave in her varied career experience, adapting across different organisational cultures, with cutting-edge approaches from her recent Lincoln University postgraduate studies in Tourism Management.

What: STEAMing Ahead with Future-focused Adaptive Management: A Tourism Case Study

Where: Te Au Pūngao, Blenheim,

When: 20 November, 2025, 10-11 am

Who: For all who live, work and play in Marlborough Te Tauihu o te Waka-a-Māui

RSVP: Noon 18 November, 2025