Executive officer Kevin O’Sullivan said speakers and topics will be released in the coming months.
The venue will be Auckland Museum where the 2015 conference was held.Last year 135 delegates attended CNZ’s fourth annual conference in
Wellington where Azamara Club Cruises’ president and ceo Larry Pimentel was keynote speaker.
A highlight of the conference was the release of Cruise New Zealand’s 2015/16 economic impact report which revealed that a record number of more than 254,000 passengers and almost 92,000 crew visited the country between August 2015 and June 2016.In the 2016/17 wave season cruise ships will make 791 port visits, an increase of 13% on 2015/16.It was predicted that the total number of passengers will be 282,538 in 2017/18, injecting NZ$536m into the economy.
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