Our Newsletter: October - December 2011
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Adobe Acrobat version: October-December 2011 (53kb)
RIP Prickles - A Hero
Bill and I were fortunate enough to have crossed paths with you many times. Our thoughts go out to your family and colleagues at Salt Air. Rest in Peace Prickles.
Small Town Conference
Omapere has secured the right to host this year's Small Town Conference. It will be held on October 8 and 9. It will be held at the Copthorne Hokianga. For more information you can contact Marina or Pip on 09 405 8737.
A World Track and Field STAR enjoys a Footprints Waipoua NIGHT walk
Alysia Montano the American athlete who finished fourth in the 800m at the World Champs held in Daegu behind Mariya Savinova (Russia), Caster Semenya (South Africa) and Kenia Sinclair (Jamaica) enjoyed a Footprints Waipoua 'Twilight Encounter' night tour.
Accompanied by her new husband Louis on a 3 week extended "mini moon" (a second honeymoon) to New Zealand, Alysia marvelled at the silhouettes of the giant kauri trees Te Matua Ngahere and Tane Mahuta.
Generally used to covering 800m in 1:57.34, Alysia covered the 1.5km in approximately 3 hours.
There is no doubt that the 800m event at next year's London Olympics will definitely have much more meaning to those who were lucky enough to enjoy her company. The NIGHT a World Track and Field STAR visited the giant kauri trees of the Waipoua forest will be a night to remember.
Check out her thoughts about her NZ trip at the below link titled "The Way of the Kiwi": www.alysiamontano.com/index2.php#/multi-text_8/1/.
Kauri Museum and Destination Tourism Northland Tourism Excellence in Tourism Award
Congratulations to Bet and the TEAM at the Kauri Museum for being a finalist in the Northland Tourism Awards. It's a GREAT Museum filled with GREAT people and a GREAT purpose.
"Hoecker discovers New Zealand"
See more about Bernhard Hoeckers visit to the Waipoua forest at this link: www.tourismnewzealand.com.
ATTTO Appointment for Koro
Koro was recently appointed to the ATTTO Targeted Review of Qualifications Group. See more at: www.attto.org.nz/news/next-steps-for-review-of-tourism-qualifications.
Society of American Travel Writers
Footprints hosted a group of Travel Writers from the Society of American Travel Writers. See a recently published story by Lori Erickson at: www.spiritualtravels.info. Thanks Lori.
FTI Famil
Thanks Dietmar for your support of Northland and Hokianga. We are happy that your group enjoyed their stay. A big thanks also to Ross Grundy who helped us to host Dietmar and his TEAM.
Stella Famil
A big thank you to Karen Koval State Sales Manager for South Australia Air New Zealand who escorted a group of STELLA Agents recently throughout Northland. I really enjoyed my time with you all. I have to say that I will never forget 'Jum'. Awesome to hear that the "Haka Honeys" ended up being the overall winners of the World Drive Rally Competition.
UNDP China Delegation
A United Nations Development Group from China visited us during December. This was a State Ethnic Affairs Commission (SEAC) International study tour to New Zealand. The SEAC/UNDP Study Group delegations purpose was to learn about New Zealand's approach to indigenous development. This was a Te Puni Kokiri initiative supported by the team at New Zealand Maori Tourism. We look forward to maintaining communication and developing opportunities to build on the relationship as a result of their visit.
Trip Advisor
See a Trip Advisor comment posted by a happy punter: www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10753216.
From the Footprints Waipoua and Crossings Hokianga TEAMS.
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