New tourism award for North Shore City businesses
North Shore City Council is to sponsor the tourism category in this year's premier business awards.
The Westpac Enterprise North Shore Business Excellence Awards, run under the auspices of the economic development agency
Enterprise North Shore, is the city's premier business event, and it's the first time the tourism category has been
included.
Enterprise North Shore is now calling for nominations for each of the categories, with the deadline on June 19. This
year's awards again include a number of categories, with the Westpac Supreme Business Excellence Trophy awarded to the
best business from the twelve category winners.
The new tourism category is sponsored by North Shore City Council as a part of its increasing commitment to the
development of tourism in the city, says deputy mayor Dianne Hale.
"Our part of the region is increasingly attractive to tourists and visitors from other parts of New Zealand and from all
over the world - but with international tourism taking a buffeting, it's in all our interests to raise our tourism
profile at every opportunity," she says.
"This award could well provide the needed catalyst for a North Shore City tourism business to grow, to prosper and to
bring significant benefits to the whole business community."
Chief executive of Enterprise North Shore, Terry Hoskins, says the North Shore City Council's Excellence in Tourism
Award provides a stepping stone to the NZ Tourism Awards. The category also complements the study of the city's tourism
industry that the council has initiated with AUT's Faculty of Business.
To find out more about the business awards, please check Enterprise North Shore's website: www.enterprisens.org.nz.