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New Zealand’s natural scenery offers a veritable playground of opportunities for those wanting to challenge themselves and engage in some adrenaline-pumping, team-bonding fun.
Ancient rain forests, pristine lakes, snowy mountains, or golden beaches all offer incredible opportunities to reward, revitalise and refocus.
The sky is the limit
New Zealanders seem determined to prove Kiwis can fly and can help your high-flyers do it too.
Queenstown is the ultimate pit stop for adrenaline junkies.
Take the plunge at the world’s original commercial bungy site at Kawarau Bridge, complete with the Feel the Fear programme that addresses the harmful effects of workplace stress.
Help your team muster up the courage to do something they’ll never forget and ensure they leave with an incredible feeling of satisfaction.
Alternatively, try the world-first Nevis Catapult, a skydive, or for those keen on climbing the corporate ladder, clip on and conquer the highest waterfall cable climb in the world in Wanaka.
Walking on air
For slightly less adventurous groups, New Zealand’s scenic flight operators supply a more sedate way to take in views of the majestic Southern Alps, the out-of-this-world beauty of Fiordland – or even orbiting a gigantic sperm whale from the air above Kaikōura.
Helicopter tours can land on a pristine alpine glacier for an ice walk – or just a glass of bubbles to celebrate making it to the top. Try your hand at heli-skiing, heli golf, or join a heli gin tour!
Watch the sun roll in over Canterbury’s braided rivers and pastoral plains from a hot air balloon – the memorable way to greet the dawn of a new business challenge.
Rotorua’s beautiful forests offer another way to enjoy life at the top, with groups able to soar through the canopy on a network of ziplines, or traverse swing bridges high above the forest floor.
In Auckland, take it to the limit with a SkyJump or SkyWalk at the SkyTower; enjoy a guided walk over the Auckland Harbour Bridge, or bungy jump from beneath it.
Riding the wave of success
New Zealand’s oceans, rivers and lakes offer multiple incentive options to dive into.
Choose luxury scenic sailing through the Bay of Islands or Milford Sound, or amp up the team work by crewing an America’s Cup yacht across Auckland Harbour.
Jetboat at speed or kayak at leisure in Mount Aspiring National Park. Raft the whitewater rapids in the Tongariro River, or overnight with the wildlife on the placid Doubtful Sound.
Choose the landscape, the tempo, and the activities to best stimulate your team – the options and memories are never-ending.
Ready for the incentive of a lifetime?
For more inspiration, check out The Ultimate Reward – an incentive in New Zealand below:
To discuss an incentive itinerary tailored to your team and objectives, contact:
Edward Kwek
Trade Manager Business Events
Tourism New Zealand
Contact: +65 9152 9122
Email: Edward.Kwek@tnz.govt.nz
Website: businessevents.newzealand.com
He then joined the Sheraton Jeddah Hotel in Saudi Arabia as director of F&B in 2012 and subsequently moved to the flagship properties at Sheraton Grand Sydney Hyde Park in Australia and W Bangkok in Thailand.
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He possesses extensive experience in sales and marketing, operations and guest technology engagement solutions across hospitality brands like Raffles Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, and Stamford Hotels and Resorts.
Hong Kong’s authorities will heed science and temporarily lift the city’s flight suspension mechanism from today, choosing to rely on an extra PCR test for arriving travellers to deter the import of Covid-19 infections.
According to a statement from the government, the move is supported by initial statistics and scientific analysis that showed it is more effective to deter Covid-19 transmission through more frequent nucleic acid testing on arriving passengers than flight bans.
Travellers arriving into Hong Kong from July 8 will have to undergo a PCR test on the third day of their quarantine.
The move also takes into consideration the surge in arrivals as students return home for their summer holidays.
Hong Kong’s flight suspension mechanism has been an unpopular one, as it puts both travellers and airlines in a difficult position. The mechanism punishes an airline with a five-day flight route ban when at least five passengers – or five per cent of travellers, whichever is higher – are tested positive for Covid-19 upon arrival in Hong Kong.
Miramar Travel’s general manager, Alex Lee welcomed the move. He said: “This mechanism not only affected incoming traffic but also appetite of outbound travel as clients are worried about cost and time from having to rebook tickets and secure quarantine hotels if they failed to fly back as scheduled. Therefore, scrapping this mechanism may spur the resumption of flight services and frequency. This is turn will make airfares more affordable.”
Wing Wong, managing director of W Travel, predicts a ramp up in flight capacity following the suspension of the flight ban.
“I expect the first wave of arrivals to comprise students returning from overseas and domestic helpers in next eight weeks, followed by businessmen, travellers here to visit relatives, and holidaymakers. My key concern now is for our supply of quarantine hotels to meet demand,” he added.