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Events & Venues Rotorua surprises Wellington buyers

Tuesday, 30 August 2011 09:10

Wellington meeting organisers were kept guessing when they were hosted to lunch by Events & Venues Rotorua in August. Collected by coach from Wellington Convention Centre at 9.30am, they headed to the Air National Terminal at Wellington Airport for a charter flight to Rotorua on a Jet Stream 19 seater aircraft.

From the airport they were transferred to the Rotorua lake front by K-Jet jet boat before arriving for lunch at the Te Runanga Tea House. The four-course lunch of crayfish and venison was catered by the Energy Events Centre catering team and the Tea House was themed by Event Impressions. Key Rotorua operators joined the guests for lunch which was followed by a famil of the Energy Events Centre. The Wellingtonians were back in the capital by 4.00pm.


from left: Leanne Fecser and Ros Alsford, both Vetlearn, with Jeff Alexander, Event Impressions	Three cheers for Rotorua - Event Impressions sent the Wellington women home with the flowers from the tables	Leanne Fecser, Vetlean; Jill Harrison Millennium Rotorua; Ros Alsford, Vetlearn and Brett Jeffery, Events & Venues Rotorua

Wellington-based speaker, Eva-Maria Salikhova; Helen Woodcock, Bus and Coach NZ and Peter McLeod, Events & Venues Rotorua	Jill Harrison, Millennium Rotorua; Lu Budden, Convention Management New Zealand; David Clark, New Zealand Property Institute; Matt Juniper, Novotel Rotorua and Louise Townsend, Building Officials Institute of New Zealand	Tina Larsen, New Zealand Association of Occupational Therapists (NZAOT); Jenny Taylforth, Electricity Engineers Association of NZ Inc and Lynley Martin, Skyline Skyrides

The transfer from Rotorua Airport to Rotorua Lakefront was by K-Jet jet boat	Melissa Tamanui, Meet Industry Association of NZ (inc), Denise Siviter, Rotorua Convention Bureau and Jenny Houdalakis, NZ Property Institute	Surprises all round for Wellington buyers on the Air National charter flight to Rotorua courtesy of Events & Venues Rotorua

Tasmania hosts NZ PCOs

Friday, 27 May 2011 12:13

A group of New Zealand corporate incentive and event organisers literally had a taste of Tasmania to start their familiarisation of the state late May. A visit to Josef Chromy winery, which included wine and cheese tasting, and dinner at the Gorge Restaurant in Launceston were highlights of the first day on the itinerary for the group. The programme was hosted by Business Events Tasmania, Business Events Australia and Qantas.

The group started its second day with a helicopter flight to the dramatic coastal location of Freycinet, before moving on to Hobart on day three. The final evening was a night for kings and queens, dukes and duchesses, princes and these princesses when the New Zealand familiarisation group had their farewell to Tasmania gala function at Meadowbank Estate, Hobart. On the menu (among other things) were suckling pig, roasted over a wood fire, roasted winter vegetables and baked apples.


Getting into a 'royal' mood are (from left) Diane Pomfret, Ironbark Events; Amanda Hall, Business Events Australia; and Sarah Thomas, Business Events Tasmania	Making a toast to Tasmania at Hotel Grand Chancellor Hobart (from left) Koenraad Boons, Indigo Event and Incentive Creations and Stuart Nettlefold, Business Events Tasmania	At The Gorge Restaurant (from left) Claire Harrington, Business Events Tasmania; Rebecca Slee, Qantas; Kim Jeffery, McDermott's Coaches; Craig Muller, Madant Productions

At Woolmers Estate, near Launceston, Diane Pomfret, Ironbark Events and guide Peter Viney	At Josef Chromy, Craig Muller, Madant Productions and Rebecca Slee, Qantas	Taking the oppportunity to have a hit on the driving range at the Country Club in Launceston, are (from left) Jim Watt, NZ Conference Connexions; Troy Armstrong, Country Club; and Karen Hamilton, 360 Degree Events