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Top Accolade for Cruise Advocate
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Thursday 20 August 2009
Top Accolade for Cruise Advocate
One of New Zealand’s top advocates for the cruise industry has been made a life member of the organisation he helped found.
Captain Craig Harris has been made a Life Member of Cruise New Zealand (CNZ), the organisation that markets New Zealand as a cruise destination to Cruise lines.
“Craig
has played a massive role in helping the cruise industry to
become an increasingly important contributor to tourism in
this country,” says George Hickton, Tourism New Zealand
Chief Executive. “He was an early advocate of the
potential of cruise for New Zealand, has been an outspoken
spokesperson for the needs of the industry, and has
developed many useful initiatives.”
Craig Harris
is Managing Director of ISS-McKay Ltd, the leading
independent New Zealand agent for cruise ship operators,
handling the majority of cruise ship port calls during the
New Zealand season.
He founded Cruise New Zealand in
1994 and has served as its chairman ever since. CNZ has
played an active role in everything from the development of
regional port facilities and the training of local tour
guides to creating meet-and-greet programmes and raising
community awareness of passenger expectations.
In 1995 Craig led CNZ’s first delegation to the annual cruise shipping convention in Miami and has organised regular sales missions to the United States. He helped set up the annual economic impact study. The most recent of these shows that the cruise industry generated $NZ412m in direct spend during the 2007/08 season, compared to NZ$77.4m in 1999/2000.
Harris also championed the push to supplement Auckland’s existing cruise ship terminal at Princes Wharf with another at Queen’s Wharf - a project the New Zealand government has now undertaken.
Another milestone has been
cruise company Carnival Australia’s decision to operate an
extended four-month season in New Zealand from April next
year with Australia’s resident ship, the Pacific
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