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NZCA 2020 speakers announced

Winsome Dormer, who founded the Independent Provedoring Company in Lyttelton, gateway to Christchurch, in 1989, is in the lineup of speakers for New Zealand Cruise Association 2020.

Helen Hutcheon, Australasia correspondent

February 25, 2020

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This year’s annual conference will be held in Christchurch August 20-21, just before the opening of Lyttelton’s new custom-built cruise ship facility.

Lyttelton has been closed to large cruise ships since the February 2011 earthquake when Dormer’s company stayed open and continued to provide a complete provisioning service for naval, Antarctic and expedition cruise ships.

It was a finalist for Onboard Supplier of the Year in the 2009 Seatrade Cruise Awards.

Other guest speakers include Stephen England-Hall, chief executive of Tourism New Zealand; Sture Myrmell, president, Carnival Australia; and Gavin Smith, Royal Caribbean International’s GM Australasia.

About the Author

Helen Hutcheon

Australasia correspondent

Helen Hutcheon did her cadetship on a shipping magazine and worked in P&O’s Sydney office for seven years as a public relations journalist.

For 19 years she was deputy editor of Travel Week, which was Australia’s leading trade newspaper that covered major local and international industry events.

In 2008 the late legendary Rama Rebbapragada presented her with an award from Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd ‘in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the cruising industry.’

In 2010 she won the Neil Frazer Award for ‘outstanding contribution to the cruise industry,’ elevating her to CLIA Australasia’s hall of fame.

She has been the Australasia correspondent for Seatrade Cruise Review since 1997 and for Seatrade Insider (now Seatrade Cruise News) since its launch in 2000.

 

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