Home of new ICON hosts Travel Communicator Awards
Heritage Auckland was again proud host of the annual Travel Communicators of New Zealand (Travcom) Cathay Pacific Travel Writer and Travel Photographer of the Year awards, plus the Whitcoulls Travel Book of the Year award on the evening of Tuesday the 8th of April.
The country’s best travel writers, authors and photographers gathered for a glittering occasion in the hotel’s spectacular roof-top Deco Grand Tearoom to celebrate excellence in their field.
The awards were judged this year by William Fraser editor of the Cathay Pacific and Dragonair in-flight magazines, and former editor of Qantas magazine, the Australian Financial Review and Boss Magazine.
Heritage Hotels have supported the awards gala event and Travcom for almost a decade.
The Heritage Hotels Award for the Best Travel Article Written About New Zealand was awarded to John McCrystal of Wellington for his article A Quiet Night Out In Waitangi published in the Dominion Post in April 2007.
John went on to also win Travcom’s overall Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year award for the same article.
The winner of the Cathay Pacific Travel Photographer of the Year went to Grant Sheehan and the Whitcoulls Travel Book of the Year went to Eleanor Meecham for her book Llamas and Empanadas published by Penguin Books.
For other prize category winners and images from the night visit www.travelcommunicators.co.nz
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