TAANZ has announced the finalists of the 2025 TAANZ NTIA’s ahead of the gala dinner in Auckland on 03 May.
The finalists for Retail Consultant of the Year are: Flight Centre Eastridge’s Samara Liyanage, Marise Barrett from helloworld Strandon, House of Travel at The Crossing’s Hayley Mundy, Tamara Bashford of Flight Centre Northland and Belinda Fifield, HoT Christchurch City.
Retail Rookie of the Year finalists: Flight Centre Northlands’ Lieke Janssen, Britney Orr from helloworld Rotorua, HoT New Plymouth’s Zoe Robinson, HoT Northlink’s Isabella Taylor and Briarna Moore, World Travellers Galaxy Travel. The finalists for Retail Travel Agency Manager of the Year are: Flight Centre Direct’s Gemma Woodruff, Gon Vega of Flight Centre Northland, helloworld Thames’ Jo Robinson, Michael Cory- Toussaint of Toussaint and Turner Travel Associates, and Rhea Alcroft from Flight Centre St Lukes.
Flight Centre Masterton, HoT Johnsonville, HoT Whangarei, Quay Travel World Travellers and You Travel & Cruise Bethlehem are the finalists for Retail Travel Agency of the Year.
The finalists for Community Connection of the Year are: Deborah Kay from helloworld Rotorua, The Travel Brokers’ Kay M Gregan, Mary Buckley from Shore Travel, Tori Keating from xTravel , and YOU Travel Orewa’s Kiri Martin.
. . . Brokers
Finalists for Travel Broker (business/team) of the Year are 360edge Travel, Bucket List Travel, Kay Humphries Travel, North Travel, and KNL Travel. Travel Broker of the Year finalists are NZTB’s Kelly Cruickshank-Giles, Rebecca Kent from TMG, The Travel Brokers’ Antony Myers, Kim Payne from Wanderlust Travel Experts and Niki Davies from Envoyage.
. . . Corporate
The finalists for Corporate Rookie of the Year are Abigail Gorman of Orbit World Travel CHC and Charise Hemopo, Calder & Lawson Orbit World Travel. Corporate Consultant of the Year finalists are Orbit World Travel CHC’s Howie Yee, Therese McInally of Corporate Traveller, HoT Christchurch’s Sarah Henderson, Sharon Chandra of Orbit World Travel Auckland and Jess Bidois, Calder & LawsonOrbit World Travel.
Coroprate Travel Agency of the Year finalists are The Corporate Traveller, Orbit World Travel CHC, FCM New Zealand and RSE Travel.
Finalists for Corporate Travel Agency Manager of the Year, sponsored by Travel Today, are Carolyn Richards of Corporate Traveller and Orbit World Travel AKL’s Andrea Russell.
The finalists for Marketing Campaign of the Year include Natalie Willoughby of Corporate Traveller, Flight Centre’s Sian Cribbens, Bridget Fogarty from House of Travel, Tori Keating of xTravel and Lizzie Brett from helloworld.
Rounding out the awards are Customer Advocacy of the Year finalists Envoyage’s Sarah Rodgers, Orbit World Travel AKL’s Debbie Kelly, Jan Arthurs from HoT Kapiti Coast, Flight Centre St Luke’s Swapnil Bhate and Anna Marshall, Orbit World Travel.
