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Hot Deals next Summer with Royal Caribbean
Royal Caribbean has launched a number of New Year hot deals which offer big savings on a range of New Zealand, Queensland and Pacific Island cruises for next summer, including the opportunity to sail on its new megaliner, Voyager of the Seas.
Read the full postCityLife Wellington appointment
Viresh Mathur has been promoted to the permanent role of hotel manager of CityLife Wellington A Heritage Hotel, located on Lambton Quay. He has been acting manager for the hotel for the past few months. Prior to this he was executive assistant manager of the Heritage Christchurch.
Read the full postRevenue Boom for WLG i-SITEs
Revenue from visitors to the two i-SITEs operated by Positively Wellington Tourism (PWT) has increased by close to $400,000 in the past six months. PWT chief executive David Perks says takings
at the i-SITE in Civic Square and the Interislander i-SITE increased 22% in the first half of the 2011/12 financial year, when compared to the same period the year before.
WLG terminal rocks with Frommers
Wellington’s ‘Rock’ terminal has been named No. 4 among the world’s top ten airport terminals by travel website Frommers. Top spot went to Jeddah’s Hajj Terminal, with Leifur Eriksson Air Terminal, Keflavik, Iceland and the Incheon terminal at Seoul filling out the top three.
The ratings were made based on ‘cleanliness, services, on-time departures, navigation and the ease of getting to and from a city’s center,’
USA Today reported.
Zealandia needs $3 million
Zealandia wildlife sanctuary has asked Wellington City Council for nearly $3 million so it can keep its doors open. The Dominion Post says the council has already provided funding of about $10.7m based on projected visitor figures that have never been met, and it is hesitant about
providing a bailout of $950,000 a year over three years. If it does so, it wants to keep a closer eye on how the sanctuary spends its money, by
bringing it under the umbrella of the councilcontrolled Wellington Zoo.
WLG pop-up restaurant coverage reaches millions
The WLG pop up restaurant in Melbourne is estimated to have reached a cumulative audience of well over 9 million people in Australia through news, blogs and social media. The sell-out serving of the culinary capital in Melbourne’s Fitzroy district, which saw close to 2000 diners enjoy a taste of Wellington’s world class food and hospitality, also received extensive news coverage in New Zealand and reached as far afield as the UK, India and Germany.
Read the full postEvents capital enjoying sell-outs
Wellington’s status as events capital is at an all time high, according to Glenys Coughlan, CEO of Positively Wellington Venues, who reports last week’s Cold Chisel performance was the seventh sell-out show in eight weeks at a PWV site.
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