Haworth hands over the helm at Captain Cook
Captain Trevor Haworth, who founded Captain Cook Cruises on Australia Day 1970, announced his retirement as executive chairman this week, according to Seatrade Insider.
A Member of the Order of Australia, Haworth received the International Cruise Council Australasia 2007 ‘Outstanding Contribution by an Individual’ award at its annual dinner in January this year.
Haworth, who was born in Lancashire and went to sea as a cadet with Saint Line when he was 16, was master of Australian-Oriental Line’s 100-passenger Taiping before he came ashore and settled in Sydney.
His distinguished career as Australia’s small cruise ship pioneer had humble beginnings, with his wife, Geraldine, he operated five-dollar-a-head coffee cruises on Sydney Harbour in a chartered vessel.
In 1992 he launched Captain Cook Cruises’ Great Barrier Reef cruise programme and in 1996 he commenced the company’s Fijian operation in Denarau.
Last year Haworth celebrated the 21st birthday of his purpose-built 120-passenger paddlewheeler Murray Princess which is based in Mannum, 84km east of Adelaide.
Captain Cook Cruises also operates popular Sydney tourist attractions, the two-night weekend cruise around the harbour and along the Parramatta and Lane Cove Rivers aboard the 120-passenger Captain Cook’s Explorer.
“It has been a real pleasure to have been a part of the development and growth of inbound tourism into Australia over the past 38 years,” said Haworth, a former chairman of what was the Inbound Tourism Organisation of Australia, now the Australian Tourism Export Council.
He said he will take up the new role of non-executive chairman and his children, Anthony Haworth and Jackie Haworth-Charlton, will retain their positions as joint managing directors.
Interestingly he has not handed the ultimate control of the helm of the business to his family, announcing that he has appointed Nick Hortle, who has had wide experience as a senior management executive and as a partner of KPMG Chartered Accountants, as CEO.
He added, “I am confident Captain Cook Cruises, under Nick’s command and supported by Jackie and Anthony, will continue to prosper and grow,” he said.
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