Queenstown Lakes District Council chief executive Duncan Field will represent Local Government New Zealand in a ministerial review of safety in adventure tourism.
The review was initiated by Prime Minister John Key, following the death of a British tourist during a river boarding trip on the Kawarau River last year.
The steering group and the project working group will include Mr Field as a representative selected from the council on behalf of Local Government New Zealand.
Mr Field said he was looking forward to being involved in the review process.
Councillors voted for Mr Field behind closed doors at its full meeting in Queenstown last Tuesday.
He said his role would be to represent local government not other sectors such as destination marketing or tourism, whose interests would be represented by other agencies.
"I will be contributing to the review from a regulatory perspective.
We have in part been invited to contribute because of Queenstown's ongoing commitment to assuring safety in many aspects of adventure tourism, including waterways and in the air," Mr Field said.
The council was involved in the adventure tourism industry from the perspective of resource consenting, legislation such as the Shotover River Empowering Act and the harbourmaster function and bylaws.
"It is more appropriate that the council be involved in the review, rather than remaining on the outside and making submissions to the process," he said.
The review would be undertaken in two phases, with phase one covering scoping and establishing the knowledge base and stage two looking at the analysis, problem definition and reporting.
It was anticipated that a final report, including options and recommendations would be presented to the Government by March 31, next year.
Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson said the aim of the national review was to ensure the adventure tourism sector had the best possible safety while retaining the "dynamism" which set it apart from the rest of the world.
