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International Women’s Day

IWD2025: Auckland Airport focuses on mentoring, networking – Dooney 10th March 2025 /

IWD2025: Auckland Airport focuses on mentoring, networking – Dooney

Auckland Airport is today marking International Women’s Day, which was on Saturday, with an event focused on mentoring and networking.


IWD2023: IDNZ’s Debbie Summers on lifelong learning, teamwork and a big fear 8th March 2023 /

IWD2023: IDNZ’s Debbie Summers on lifelong learning, teamwork and a big fear

To mark International Women’s Day, the Ticker is publishing a series of articles from women leaders in tourism.


IWD2023: KiwiRail’s Tracey Goodall on her journey to leadership 6th March 2023 /

IWD2023: KiwiRail’s Tracey Goodall on her journey to leadership

To mark International Women’s Day this week, the Ticker is publishing a series of articles from women leaders in tourism and will look at the state of equality in the sector.


Pandemic hurts women’s careers short-term, may hold silver lining 8th March 2021

Pandemic hurts women’s careers short-term, may hold silver lining

How has the pandemic affected women at the top of New Zealand’s tourism industry?


IWD2020: TECNZ CEO Lynda Keene on leadership and being bold 11th March 2020

IWD2020: TECNZ CEO Lynda Keene on leadership and being bold

Tourism Export Council’s new CEO, Lynda Keene, on the importance of profiling women in leadership, being bold and backing yourself.


IWD2020: CINZ’s Lisa Hopkins on self belief and supporting other women 10th March 2020 /

IWD2020: CINZ’s Lisa Hopkins on self belief and supporting other women

Conventions & Incentives New Zealand’s new CEO talks to us about her impressive career thus far, the importance of self belief and what it means to support other women so they can become role models. 


IWD2020: Tourism NZ’s Brodie Reid on leadership and role models 9th March 2020 /

IWD2020: Tourism NZ’s Brodie Reid on leadership and role models

The agency’s director of marketing on leadership, and how role models, a supportive environment and hard work create success.


IWD2020: Te Papa CEO Courtney Johnston on landing “ultimate job” 6th March 2020

IWD2020: Te Papa CEO Courtney Johnston on landing “ultimate job”

To mark Sunday’s International Women’s Day, we publish a series of interviews with some of the sector’s newly appointed women leaders.


NZ has an abysmally low number of women in senior business positions 8th March 2018 /

NZ has an abysmally low number of women in senior business positions

NZ is among the worst performers in the world for women in senior leadership positions at companies but how do the country’s top tourism companies fare?


Q&A with Black Label Experience’s Tania Stoyanof 22nd March 2017

Q&A with Black Label Experience’s Tania Stoyanof

Tania Stoyanof’s relatively new business, Black Label Experience, is offering bespoke, unique New Zealand experiences for the global elite.


Q&A with White Island Tours’ Jenny Tait 21st March 2017

Q&A with White Island Tours’ Jenny Tait

Jenny Tait and her husband Peter started tours to White Island in 1990 with a single boat ferrying six passengers at a time from Whakatane. Today, their business operates four vessels taking up to 350 people a day to the volcanic island.


Q&A with Dive Tatapouri’s Chris Savage 20th March 2017

Q&A with Dive Tatapouri’s Chris Savage

Chris Savage started in tourism in the late 1980s at Rainbow & Fairy Springs, went travelling and then returned to a desk job in insurance. But the lure of adventure proved too strong and, along with her husband Dean, started a unique boat tour that offers swimming with stingrays.