Ngāi Tahu Tourism CEO Quinton Hall loses job

7th May 2020 By Staff Reporter | news@tourismticker.com | @tourismticker

Ngāi Tahu Tourism chief executive Quinton Hall is leaving the group as one of 309 staff made redundant by the operator.

Hall, who has held the top job at the iwi-owned company since 2014, is to work out his notice with the business helping it transition to a new leadership structure.

Quinton Hall

It is the highest-profile casualty so far in an industry bracing itself for tens of thousands of job losses because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hall was one of eight to receive a 2018 Prime Minister’s Business Scholarship recognising up and coming business leaders.

He led Ngāi Tahu Tourism through a period of significant growth overseeing a number of acquisitions or new ventures during his tenure, including the Dark Sky Project at Tekapo, which opened last year, and the All Blacks Experience currently being built in Auckland.

Hall is a current director of Tourism Industry Aotearoa and a former director of Rotorua Economic Development.

Ngāi Tahu announced on Thursday that 309 tourism staff would lose their jobs with 39 remaining, while it hibernated 10 of its 11 tourism businesses.

Read our full interview with Mike Pohio, chief executive of Ngai Tahu Holdings, in Monday’s Ticker.