Other side of travel

Mana (Auckland), Volume 2, Issue 4, 18 May 1978, Page 5

Other side of travel

Samoan travel agents in the Air New Zealand House booking office: Mrs E.

Williams (Union Travel, Apia); Mrs T. Keil (Burns Philp Travel, Apia); Miss D. Atoa (Beehive Travel, APW); Miss Judith Vesa (Air New Zealand, AuckWhen six Samoan women travel agents arrived in Auckland they felt very much at home and found many Samoan friends. The agents, who were invited by Air New Zealand on a study trip of Auckland facilities and systems, met two Air New Zealand staff who have an appreciation of Samoa and know what interests tourists in Auckland: Judith Vasa, a booking officer in the passenger sales office. Quay Street, was born in Apia, Western Samoa, and has beep in New Zealand for several years; Neil Cox (Sales) who acted as tour guide whilst the group was in Auckland, spent three years in Apia. Air New Zealand’s reservations supervisor in Western Samoa,

land); Mrs K. Netzler (Stars Retzlaff Samoa Tours, Apia); Mrs N. Gray (Gold Star Travel, Apia); Mrs L. Stober (Samoa Travel and Holidays, Pago Pago). Ricky McFall escorted the party from Apia. During the two-day study, the women were escorted through Air New Zealand reservations and sales offices, inspected the. Downtown traffic check-in area, were taken on tours of the New Zealand and international terminals, the Mangere engineering base, cabin services facility building and shown through the flight kitchen and catering departments. To give a total view of the Auckland scene, a Tasman/Hertz minibus was provided and the tour party was shown Auckland’s waterfront drive. Included in the tour was a trip to the Auckland Museum, which holds among its many exhibits a Polynesian section that has been acclaimed as the: finest of its type in the world.