Wednesday 04 November 2015 Issue 3195 Incorporating Tabs on Travel News................................ p1, p2, p4, p5 Cruising Today................................. p3 Sydney Corporate Famil.................. p6 6 Pages This Issue The earlybird gets the savings! 11 day Guided Holiday from $5350 per person twin share* Darwin to Broome Save up to $1200 per couple When you pay in full on or before 30 Nov 2015* Wonders of the Kimberley *Conditions apply Rob Driver Guide Jetstar to fly to the biggest towns in NZ starting with ‘N’ Auckland Napier Subject to Government and Regulatory approval. Flights are operated by Eastern Australia Airlines for Jetstar Airways. BE A WINNER CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS Conditions apply. BIG KIDS FARE Auckland to Los Angeles Kids aged 2-17 fly at kids prices On sale 30 Oct-30 Nov for travel 01 Dec-30 Jun NO BLACKOUTS! * Based on low season H class. Refer GDS for details. AKL SAN From $1769 * pp Bali Flights Cancelled Jetstar and Virgin Australia have cancelled all flights into and out of Bali today following the eruption of Mt Rinjani near Denpasar. Both car- riers cancelled all flights and are still assessing tomorrow’s services. Heroes’ Welcome For All Blacks At AKL Air New Zealand passengers flying from London to New Zealand helped the All Blacks celebrate their victory on the way home today, with the carrier shouting glasses of Champagne and some passengers given the chance to hold the Webb Ellis Cup. The flight was given a heroes’ welcome in Auckland by NZ staff who performed a haka on the tarmac. House of Travel’s new joint venture with Rob Beecher and Allen Bell (ex Stella) will be named Global Travel Net- work (GTN), it was an- nounced this morning. GTN is a joint-venture company with Beecher/ Bell (pictured below) and HoT both holding 50/50 equity. GTN was a company already held by HoT. “It is early days yet with this new start-up,” HoT spokesperson Brent Thomas told Travel Today, “and there are systems and infra- structures that need to be created and implemented first.” . . . Independent Agents Thomas added that GTN will be supplying contracted ‘independent’ agents with air products, initially, and that land products could follow. “The combined air product knowl- edge of Allen and Rob has generated ‘great support’ from suppliers such as airlines,” he added. “We’re really excited about the op- portunity to work with such a strong and supportive partner — particu- larly one that is Kiwi owned and operated. It’s fantastic to see this come to fruition and we’re looking forward to getting started,” says Bell. Beecher added: “Starting a new busi- ness is not without its challenges, but it is so exciting. For the next couple of months we’ll be focusing on our distribution group and supplier re- lationships.” Travel Today understands that GTN is still working through the ‘signing- up’ process regarding participating agents. The Eagles Have Landed . . . At GTN
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Bali Flights CancelledJetstar and Virgin Australia have cancelled all flights into and out of Bali today following the eruption of Mt Rinjani near Denpasar. Both car-riers cancelled all flights and are still assessing tomorrow’s services.
Heroes’ Welcome For All Blacks At AKLAir New Zealand passengers flying from London to New Zealand helped the All Blacks celebrate their victory on the way home today, with the carrier shouting glasses of Champagne and some passengers given the chance to hold the Webb Ellis Cup. The flight was given a heroes’ welcome in Auckland by NZ staff who performed a haka on the tarmac.
House of Travel’s new joint venture with Rob Beecher and Allen Bell (ex Stella) will be named G l o b a l Tr a v e l Ne t -work (GTN), it was an-nounced this morning.GTN is a joint-venture company with Beecher/Bell (pictured below) and HoT both holding 50/50 equity. GTN was a
company a lready held by HoT.“It is early days yet with this new s t a r t - u p ,” H o T spokesperson Brent Thomas told Travel Today, “and there are systems and infra-
structures that need to be created and implemented first.”
. . . Independent AgentsThomas added that GTN will be supplying contracted ‘independent’ agents with air products, initially, and that land products could follow.“The combined air product knowl-edge of Allen and Rob has generated ‘great support’ from suppliers such as airlines,” he added.“We’re really excited about the op-portunity to work with such a strong and supportive partner — particu-larly one that is Kiwi owned and operated. It’s fantastic to see this come to fruition and we’re looking forward to getting started,” says Bell. Beecher added: “Starting a new busi-ness is not without its challenges, but it is so exciting. For the next couple of months we’ll be focusing on our distribution group and supplier re-lationships.”Travel Today understands that GTN is still working through the ‘signing-up’ process regarding participating agents.
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Seats To Suit WinnerAir New Zealand has announced the winner of its Seats to Suit trade incentive. Robyn Oretsky of Flight Centre Parliament, Wellington has won a return trip for two in pre-mium economy or works deluxe to anywhere on the NZ Seats to Suit network. She’s pictured receiving her prize from account manager Frank Gibbons.
VX Launches SFO-HNLVirgin America has launched daily nonstop flights from San Francisco to Honolulu. On 03 Dec, the carrier will launch daily non-stop flights from SFO to Maui’s Kahului Airport (OGG).
Safari Air AccessWorld Journeys advises agents that new direct flights from Cape Town to Botswana will be a ‘fantastic time-saver’ for clients wanting to access safari hotspots of Botswana, such as the Okavango Delta. From 11 Mar, Airlink will provide direct flights between Cape Town and Maun (Botswana), whereas current routings require clients to fly via Johannesburg.
Jetstar Pacific ExpansionThe Jetstar Pacific fleet in Vietnam could more than double to 30 over the next five years, with Qantas and Vietnam Airlines committing to a long-term expansion of the carrier, according to reports.
Travelport SigningTravelport has signed new multi-year agreements with China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines for its Rich Content and Branding solu-tion.
Malaysia Airlines has unveiled its new A330-300 business class seats and says the seats make it more competitive against other full ser-vice carriers.The new seats, which were unveiled at the World Travel Market in Lon-don, will be introduced from Apr and all 15 A330-300 aircraft will be fitted with the new configuration by Sep 2016. MH introduced the A330 on the Auckland-Kuala Lumpur route on 01 Sep.The business class seat pitch, which measures 43 inches with a width of 20.6 inches and length of 76 inches (fully flat), is ‘one of the best received business class seats in the industry’, says MH. They offer increased work-ing space with 90% offering direct
aisle access due to the 1-2-1 and 1-2-2 seat layout, and there’s extra stowage space for personal items. Each seat is equipped with a Pana-sonic 16-inch touch screen inflight entertainment system.“We are very excited to be introduc-ing this latest product from MH. The new seats and configuration have been designed to give a superb space for work, play or sleep,” says MH boss Christoph Mueller. “All of our A330 business class seats will now feature fully flat beds allowing our guests the ultimate in comfort and versatility.”The product will make MH ‘more competitive against other full-service carriers’ and is part of its push to be more customer centric with new, per-sonalised and innovative products, Mueller added.MH A330-300s feature 27 Business Class seats.
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Win Lunch With ChelseaTrafalgar is giving agents the chance to win lunch with Chelsea Winter, as it releases a one-off 17-day guided holiday to Italy in collaboration with the celebrity chef.Priced from $10,490pp t/s, A Taste of Italy holiday with Chelsea Winter departs Auckland 15 May 2016 and includes accommodation, sightseeing, many meals and return flights with Singapore Airlines. It features culinary highlights like a Be My Guest dinner at a Tuscan wine estate, shopping at the local Florence market and a cooking lesson with a professional Italian chef.Agents who book a guest on the trip will go in the draw to win a private lunch with Winter.
SQ Europe WinnerTina Ripley of United Travel New Lynn has been named as the fourth and final winner in Singapore Air-lines’ Fast Forward to Europe with Premium Economy competition.
With the number of cruise lines announcing future deployment plans to China growing week by week, it’s no surprise some think it’s ‘too much, too quick, too fast’. Due to this, Azamara Club Cruises president and chief executive officer Larry Pimentel believes this growth will spill over into New Zealand. “China is such an enormous market in population that so many ships are moving to China. . . It’s a lot of capac-ity, and what’s going to happen to that capacity, it’s going to come down into Australia and New Zealand,” he told Travel Today. “I think your mar-ket [New Zealand] is going to have opportunities for growth that are go-ing to be quite excessive in 2016/2017 and in particular, 2018.”
. . . Limiting FactorsC r u i s e Ne w Z e a l a n d’s Ke v i n O’Sullivan says while they are also expecting ‘major growth’, there are a couple of potentially limiting factors. To begin with, O’Sullivan says that some infrastructure needs improv-ing, particularly in Auckland. “We really need Auckland to be on its game as far as the ports are
concerned to make sure we can maximise returns for the rest of the country,” he says. Pimentel agrees, saying depending on how the growth is handled, it could be an opportunity or a prob-lem for New Zealand; as ‘many places don’t have enough berths for ships.’O’Sullivan added that the Govern-ment’s border levy fee may also stunt the growth, saying ‘the cruise ships are completely opposed to it’. It is due to come into effect 01 Jan, however, Cruise New Zealand has united with the Tourism Industry Association in a bid to delay it by a year.
. . . Asia GrowthOverall, cruise tourism in Asia is growing at double-digit rates, both in capacity and as a passenger source market, according to Cruise Lines International Association’s 2014 Asia Cruise Trends Study.
5th Quantum For RoyalRoyal Caribbean Cruises Ltd has entered into an agreement with Meyer Werft in Germany to order a fifth Quantum-class ship for deliv-ery in 2020.
Kiwis To Benefit From China Expansion?
Sunshine Coast Ramps Up Cruise ProfileQueensland’s Sunshine Coast will add Azamara Quest and MS Amsterdam to its fleet of cruise visitors over the next year, with 10 cruise vessels and over 17,000 passengers scheduled to call into Mooloolaba from Dec-Sep. These additions build on the successful visits by P&O Cruises vessels over the past year; the first cruise line to add the destination to its cruise itiner-aries in 2014. Sunshine Coast Destination chief executive Simon Ambrose says they look forward to welcoming even more vessels in the future and establishing the Sunshine Coast as a favourite port.
Win An Apple WatchTo celebrate the launch of its new 2016/17 Norway Coastal and Ex-plorer Voyages brochures, Hurti-gruten is giving agents the chance to win an Apple Watch, advises Discover the World. All agents need to do is make and deposit any two new 2016/17 Clas-sic Norway Coastal Round Voyage or Explorer Voyage bookings with Discover the World between 02 Nov-11 Dec for a chance to go into the draw to win. For additional details, CLICK HERE
Explorer MilestoneRegent Seven Seas Cruises’ new ship, Seven Seas Explorer, celebrated a ma-jor construction milestone yesterday as it was floated out of the building dock at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Italy. Now outside of the building dock, construction will focus on completing the ship’s interior spaces including the opulent suites, lounges and gourmet restaurants. Carrying only 750 guests, Seven Seas Explorer will have one of the highest space ratios in the cruise industry. Its maiden voyage is sched-uled for 20 Jul.
Fiji With GO And FJGO Holidays has FaBULAous Fiji packages flying Fiji Airways on sale to 12 Nov, with flights and four nights priced from $789pp ex Auckland stay-ing at the Anchorage Beach Resort. All bookings receive a Pure Fiji gift pack on arrival. Packages are also available flying direct from Christchurch and Wellington. GO has details.
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Galapagos New Year Clients who wish to celebrate the new year by ticking another travel destination off their bucket list have a few choices with Chimu Adventures. There’s a number of specials on its land-based Gala-pagos itineraries, with New Year’s departures. Highlights include the four-day Isabela Express, priced from $970; and the six-day Santa Cruz & Isabela itinerar y priced from $1205. Included in the price is private transfers, activities as per itinerary, a naturalist bilingual guide, and accommodation with breakfast. For further details see chimuadventures.com
New Expedia RolesExpedia Lodging Partner Services has announced two senior appoint-ments to its Asia Pacific leadership team. Drew Bowering has been ap-pointed as the new director, Australia for the Expedia LPS team; whilst Teresa Matheson has been appointed as director, New Zealand and Pacific Islands, a newly created role within Expedia. These appointments coin-cide with David Hamblin’s transition to Asia region. Hamblin will relocate from Sydney to Singapore to spear-head the continued growth of LPS across Southeast Asia.
Sunshine Coast operators are reporting a successful visit to New Zealand for their roadshow last week, where they updated agents on what’s happening in the destination including increasing awareness of Air New Zealand’s new summer flights.Seven local operators joined Sun-shine Coast Destination Limited (SCDL) on the trade mission in Auckland, Hamilton and Christ-church, providing updates and train-ing to over 200 retail and wholesale travel agents, product managers and other key industry and media con-tacts. A consumer event with House of Travel in Christchurch was also added into the schedule this year.“The New Zealand market has al-ways shown strong visitation and is one of the largest international source markets for the Sunshine Coast with 58,000 visitors making the trip across the ditch to the year ending Jun 2015. The latest trade mission should further boost the tourism num-bers and support for the NZ direct flight service to the Sunshine Coast,” says SCDL boss Simon Ambrose.
“Complimentary to the timing of our mission, is an agent incentive, the innovative new digital campaign targeting Kiwis that we have just launched in partnership with Tour-ism and Events Queensland and also the announcement NZ has extra flights to the Sunshine Coast in 2016.”
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Sunshine Coast Roadshow Success
The Langham Auckland is offering a complimentary bottle of house red and house white wine per res-ervations for Christmas-themed lunches held at Eight restaurant 16 Nov-03 Dec. The lunch includes festive favourites like roast turkey breast, Christmas ham, stollen, mince pies, Christmas pudding and more. It’s priced from $79 per adult. Email [email protected]
NOVEMBERExotic Holidays RoadshowHamilton: Mon 16, Little India, 1730. Auckland: Tue17, India Gate, 1730. New Plymouth: Wed 18, Pankawalla, 1730. Christchurch: Thu 19, Kinara, 1730. Dunedin: Fri 20, Little India, 1730. Wellington: Mon 23, Tulsi, 1730. Napier: Tue 24, Indigo, 1230. Hastings: Tue 24, Star of India, 1730. Tauranga: Wed 25, Little India, 1730.
FEBRUARY 2016Brand USA - Discover America EventsChristchurch: Mon 22, Rydges Latimar Hotel, 1700-2130.Auckland: Tue 23, The Cloud, Queens Wharf, 1700-2130.
Pictured: 1 Those in a Kiwi trade delegation to watch the Melbourne Cup at Flemington got to enjoy the sights and sounds (& hair tent) of the Cup from the Makybe Diva
Melbourne Cup CelebrationsFrom attending the event itself in Melbourne to some in-office shenanigans, the New Zealand travel industry made sure the race that stops a nation didn’t go un-noticed yesterday afternoon.
marquee, thanks to Tourism Victo-ria. Pictured before the big race is, from left, House of Travel’s Sharon Rapsey, Jane Macaskill from GO Holidays, Flight Centre’s Jodie Bur-nard & Marie Sutton, Kim Foster of House of Travel and Rachel Fergu-son from GO Holidays.2 China Airlines held a Melbourne Cup lunch at Billfish Café to cel-ebrate its seasonal three-times-weekly Christchurch-Melbourne service. Pictured is Russell Williss of CI codeshare partner Hawaiian Airlines; Siwan Nadan, Air Tickets; Allen Bell, Global Travel Network; Paula Watson, HoT; Tim Allen, HoT; Stephen Tanner, Walshe Group; and Rob Beecher, Global Travel Network.3 Pictured in their Melbourne Cup finery is Francis Travel Marketing’s Debbie Peters, Mary Gee, Jay Soysa, Kelly Bates, Susan Baxter, Beverley Mitchell, Talia Neville and Victoria Sedykh. 4 A happy winner, Tim Allen of House of Travel.5 Flight Centre’s cievents hosted clients at a ‘Race Club’ at Ellerslie Racecourse yesterday. Pictured from cievents is Gloria Yehia, Julie McWatt, Sophie Nieuwenhuijsen, Samantha Dick, Sophie Baettig, Kim Martin and Sarah Downey-Groves.
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AKL Koru LoungeConsultants on the Famil started the trip in style, at Air NZ’s revamped Koru Lounge. The living wall was a highlight for some agents, while the ability to order your own coffee on your phone via the NZ app was all round.Pictured: Air NZ’s Kendal Tobeck with Samantha Roberts from Orbit World Travel HLZ pictured at the AKL Koru Lounge’s living wall.
Sydney and New South Wales attract a significant number of Kiwi business travellers annual-ly—and with anecdotal feedback suggesting more New Zealanders are combining a little leisure time on their work trips, corporate agents on the NZ/VA Great Aussie Escape Sydney famil experienced the best of both worlds.Consultants on the trip sampled the best of Sydney from on the harbour to climbing high above the city, to fine dining and exploring behind the scenes at the Sydney Opera House.
. . . VA/NZ CorporatesThe NZ/VA alliance has upgraded its offering for corporate customers this year, and consultants on the weekend’s Sydney corporate famil got to experience the carriers’ pre-mium in-flight product first hand.VA now offers business class seats on all of its Tasman flight and NZ has its popular Premium Economy product available on its widebody aircraft operating on the Tasman.
“The improvements are also rolling out across our ground products, with refreshed lounges in Auckland and Sydney, therefore it’s great to share these experiences with our TMC agents, providing them the most up to date product knowledge to pass on to their clients,” says Antony Price, NZ’s general manager New Zealand and Pacific Islands sales.
Getting AroundSydney is undergoing going tremen-dous change. There’s construction across the city, and a number of road closures are in place due to the infrastructure required for Sydney’s new light rail development. So it’s worth mentioning the possibility of road closures and traffic delays to clients with a jam packed itin-erary. The train from the airport to Sydney’s CBD (AirportLink) is said to be an increasingly popular way for business travellers to avoid potential road congestion, both to and from the city. For details, see airportlink.com.au
Combining Work With Pleasure In Sydney
Dine Shop And SeeAustralia’s latest visitor arrival stats (IVS) show, not surprisingly, that eating out at a restaurant or cafe was the most popular activ-ity for Kiwis (85.3%) visiting New South Wales. Shopping was the next most popular option (63.3%) well ahead of sightseeing (44.3%). For an overview of the state’s dining, shopping and touring options, see destinationnsw.com.au
. . . H&M OpensHugely popular chain store H&M opened in Sydney’s Pitt St mall at the weekend—complete with crowd control and a police presence. The flagship store boasts men’s, women’s, children’s and homeware sections and got a great big thumbs up from those on the corporate famil who braved the crowds.
The Kiwi agents arrived in style before heading straight out on the Sydney Harbour with Sensational Sydney Cruises to enjoy the Syndey sunshine and icons.
Sydney Shows And Anything GoesVisitors to Syndey are spoiled for choice in terms of events, and the restaurants, on offer. A popular addition to a corporate itinerary is to take in one of the city’s ever-changing range of stage shows. A number of restau-rants offer pre or post threatre dining, with the choice of a la carte of fixed menus. The Kiwi contingent got the chance to dine at the esteemed Aria restaurant, which is located on Circular Quay, just a short walk to the Sydney Opera house for clients taking in a show there. Anything Goes was the show of choice for the group (which earned rave reviews) and coming soon to Sydney is the Queen inspired musical We Will Rock You.DNSW’s Sam Cameron is pictured on left with Nicola Segal from Virgin Australia, Air NZ’s Kendal Tobeck, Tahlee Renyolds from Tandem Travel and Megan Caughey from Orbit World TRavel DUD
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