Hiking New Zealand/ Active Earth Adventures

Story

Choose Hiking New Zealand for guided hiking tours and active holidays that take you beyond the usual highlights of Aotearoa New Zealand. As a 100% New Zealand-owned and operated company, Hiking New Zealand gives you genuine local knowledge, thoughtful planning, and authentic outdoor experiences through small-group adventures. Passionate hikers, mountain bikers, canoeists, and outdoor enthusiasts use personal experience to help you find the adventure that best matches your interests and exceeds your travel expectations. Every journey combines carefully selected accommodation, transport, and guided experiences into one well-organised itinerary, allowing you to focus on exploring with confidence. Handpicked professional guides bring every destination to life through stories of the land and its people while ensuring your experience remains inspiring, enjoyable, and safe. Hiking New Zealand offers a wide range of adventures, from three-day lodge-based hiking escapes to twenty-four-day backcountry expeditions with multi-day hikes, huts, and camping. Flexible departures and customised itineraries allow you to choose the active holiday that suits your travel style. A strong commitment to conservation, sustainable travel, and responsible tourism supports every journey, helping protect New Zealand's natural environment for current and future generations. Gold Qualmark Sustainable Tourism Business Award recognition, Department of Conservation approval, and membership with the Tourism Industry Association New Zealand and the Adventure Travel Trade Association demonstrate a commitment to quality, safety, and global best practices. By choosing Hiking New Zealand, you support local communities, environmental initiatives, and authentic New Zealand experiences built on real local spirit.

Mission

Experience New Zealand through expertly guided active adventures that combine authentic local knowledge, personalised service, careful planning, environmental responsibility, and outstanding safety standards. Explore with confidence while Hiking New Zealand matches you with the ideal hiking holiday and delivers exceptional experiences that connect you with the country's landscapes, people, and culture.

Vision

Inspire you to discover New Zealand through world-class sustainable hiking adventures while protecting the country's natural environment for future generations. Continue leading New Zealand's adventure tourism industry by delivering exceptional customer experiences, supporting conservation, strengthening local communities, and promoting responsible travel through every journey.

Hiking New Zealand Commitment to Sustainability

Welcome to Hiking New Zealand, and thank you for being a responsible and environmentally conscious traveller. If you were not, you would not take the simple step of clicking on the Sustainable Tourism page.

Your journey connects you with New Zealand’s rivers, mountains, lakes, coastlines, forests, and wildlife. These natural environments form the foundation of every experience and represent valuable assets for future generations. You expect to see and experience the very best of New Zealand, and Hiking New Zealand strives to ensure those expectations are met and exceeded, both today and in the future. Your children, grandchildren, and generations to come should also experience the raw and pristine beauty that New Zealand has to offer.

Hiking New Zealand builds its foundation on the objective of getting people into the wilderness to learn, find inspiration, have fun, and develop greater environmental awareness.

Sustainability Commitment

Hiking New Zealand proudly supports the New Zealand Tourism Sustainability Commitment and plays an active role in leading the world in sustainable tourism. Through every guided experience, Hiking New Zealand helps awaken people to the benefits of the wilderness while contributing to the restoration, protection, and enhancement of New Zealand's natural environment.

Environmental Guidelines

These guidelines follow the environmental care code promoted by the Department of Conservation and guide every wilderness experience.

Environmental Plan

The Hiking New Zealand Environmental Plan includes a wide range of procedures implemented both in the office and in the field. Every practice embraces the principles of kaitiakitanga, manaakitanga, and whanaungatanga.

You experience hiking as a tourism activity that delivers far-reaching benefits while maintaining a low environmental impact. Hiking New Zealand believes these benefits greatly outweigh any environmental effects because preserving the natural world depends on people from all walks of life experiencing it firsthand. By exploring these remarkable places, you gain a deeper understanding of what stands to be lost, because doing nothing is not an option.

You also benefit from Hiking New Zealand's proven history of operating sustainable guided hiking tours, supported by exemplary operational and safety procedures.