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The New Zealand Tourism Awards are designed to encourage, reward and inspire tourism operators to strive for the highest standards of business practice, ultimately enhancing New Zealand's image as a quality tourism destination.

Managed by TIA (Tourism Industry Association of New Zealand), the awards are a great opportunity to celebrate success and inspire the industry to continue aiming for excellence in all area of their operations.

The ATTTO tourism workplaces who received awards at the TIA Conference in Christchurch are detailed below.

Magic Travellers Network
Air New Zealand Supreme Award Winner
Major Category Winner – Tourism and Transportation Services
Sub Category Winner – Visitor Transport
Special Award Winner – Qualmark Tourism Mark of Quality Award

Tourmasters South Pacific (NZ) Ltd
Sub Category Winner - Tourism Distribution

Agrodome
Major Category Winner – Visitor Activities and Attractions
Sub Category Winner – Visitor Attraction

Shotover Canyon Swing
Sub Category Winner – Adventure Activity

“Our sincere congratulations go to each of these workplaces for being recognised and rewarded for their commitment to excellence,” says ATTTO CE Elizabeth Valentine.

“These tourism businesses have set new benchmarks that clearly demonstrate the flow-on effects of investing in people. The tangible benefits are often improved service quality, improved visitor experiences, and improved staff and customer retention. These all flow into improved bottom line business results.”

“We encourage other operators to find out how these award-winning tourism businesses have built successful models for people management and development practices,” says Elizabeth.

“Investing in good people management and development starts at the top and has tangible business benefits. If it ticks at the top, it ticks at the bottom. This is a key theme to building a business case for investing more in people.”