RCCL honors Seatrade’s Hutcheon
Seatrade Insider reports that Royal Caribbean Cruises recognized veteran journalist Helen Hutcheon’s contribution to the cruise industry with a special award.
Sydney-based Hutcheon is the Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific regional correspondent for Seatrade Cruise Review and Seatrade Insider.
She wrote her first column for the magazine in 1997 and has been filing for Seatrade Insider since its launch in March 2000.
The award was presented by Rema Rebbapragada, regional vp and md Asia Pacific for Royal Caribbean, during an industry event to mark the launch of Rhapsody of the Seas’ Pacific season in Sydney last weekend.
Hutcheon called the honor a highlight of her 50-year journalism career. ‘I have always known that cruising is the most dynamic and exciting sector of the travel industry — something a lot of people are beginning to realise,’ she said.
After a cadetship on a shipping magazine, Hutcheon joined P&O’s public relations department in Sydney as a graded journalist in 1961. During seven years with P&O, she travelled around Australia promoting the joys of sea travel and sailed in ‘wonderful ships’ like Orsova, Orcades, Oronsay, Himalaya, Oriana I and Canberra.
Hutcheon spent the next seven years on Woman’s Day as a feature writer and assistant news editor and was news editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly before taking up the appointment as editor of Vogue Living.
She returned to trade journalism in 1979 as deputy editor of Travel Week, where she spent the next 19 years covering cruise events including the naming of Regal Princess (now P&O Cruises Australia’s Pacific Dawn) in New York by Margaret Thatcher in 1991, the inaugural Seatrade Pacific Cruise Convention in Cairns in 1995 and the naming of Oriana by Queen Elizabeth II in Southampton in 1995.
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