NZ Tourism Awards Pt 7 - with Christchurch Airport, iFly Queenstown and Nelson Regional Development Agency

We kick off this week by announcing the winner of the two night stay at Russell Orongo Holiday Park and then welcome three more inspirational tourism leaders for a chat about their NZ Tourism Awards Finalist entries. 

First up is Claire Waghorn from Christchurch Airport.  Claire is the Sustainable Transition Leader there.  Christchurch Airport are finalists in the Toitu Envirocare Environment Award, and huge props must go to their entire team for the work they have been doing for well over a decade to champion our environment and make a real difference.  Not easy for an airport! 

Then we welcome Matt Wong, Managing Director at iFly Queenstown.  They are finalists in the Tourism Talent Employer of Choice Award so we tackle how they managed to keep their team engaged through lockdown and come out the other side stronger than ever.  

And finally we chat with Visitor Destination Manager at Nelson Regional Development Agency, Tracee Neilson about their Tourism New Zealand Industry Collaboration entry.  They're also doing some great work carbon off-setting their visitor economy and it seems like the entire region has got in behind the project.  It's great to hear and see our industry 'walking the talk' and making a real impact. 

There's another competition - this week an iFly Kickstart pack for two people valued at $198. 

Timings: 

9.17 - Claire Waghorn, CHC Airport (https://www.christchurchairport.co.nz/)

30.46 - Matt Wong, iFly Queenstown (https://www.iflynz.co.nz/)

51.08 - Tracee Neilson, Nelson Regional Development Agency (https://www.nelsontasman.nz/)

 

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