Categories

This award is open to entrants from individual hotel properties or from a hotel chain entering an individual hotel within their group. 

Accommodation - Motel

This award is open to entrants from motels, motor lodges, motor inns, motel apartments and serviced apartments which typically provide self contained kitchen and (in some cases) laundry facilities, daily servicing and car parking close to the accommodation.

Accommodation - Backpacker

This award is open to accommodation providers, with a focus on individual properties that cater to the backpacker market.  The majority of the property’s inventory is configured in backpacker style dormitory or private accommodation and the premises; provides self catering facilities and communal spaces for guests.

Accommodation - Holiday Park

This award is open to entrants from holiday parks, motor camp and/or camp grounds that typically feature communal kitchen, toilets, showers, laundries, recreational facilities and may have a range of different accommodation types. 

ATTTO Tourism Workplace Training

This category is open to individual tourism entities working to raise professional standards and enhance the visitor experience they deliver by innovatively training their personnel and/or personnel from other tourism entities that they work directly with in order to deliver their visitor experience and/or services

ATTTO Tourism Education and Training

This category is open to individual tourism entities and tourism education and other registered training providers working to raise professional standards within the tourism industry by innovatively delivering tourism training externally to other tourism related entities and personnel.

DOC Conservation in Action

This award is open to entrants from tourism operators who can demonstrate an active commitment to conservation and plans to sustain their conservation activities.

Festival/Event

This award is open to entrants who have an annual or one off tourism festival or event that promotes and encourages travel to New Zealand or a particular New Zealand region and adds value to the visitor’s experience.

This award is open to Maori and other tourism entities that provide and promote services and facilities specifically around the country or a regions history, heritage and culture, with an element of cultural performance and/or story telling.

TNZ Innovative Marketing Campaign

This category is open to innovative marketing campaigns that should show evidence that the campaign contributes towards tourism development and must be able to demonstrate results.

Local Government Helping Visitor Industry

This category is open to local government organisations that have applied innovation to directly improve the local, regional or national tourism industry and/or visitor experience within the past two years.

Luxury Experience

This award is open to tourism entities and tourism alliances that provide and promote services and facilities specifically around the provision of exclusive luxury experiences.

Tourism Distribution

This award is open to entrants who are distributors of all transportation and/or tour providers (group tours and touring operators).

Visitor Attraction and Experience – Large

This award is open to entrants from large sized visitor attractions and/or experiences, categorised as an operation that has over 50,000 visitors per annum, with investment in a fixed site set up for the general benefit of tourism visitors.  The category includes attractions and/or experiences that are publicly and/or privately owned.

Visitor Attraction and Experience - Small and Medium

This award is open to entrants from small or medium sized visitor attractions and/or experiences, categorised as an operation that has fewer than 50,000 visitors per annum, with investment in a fixed site or guiding/tour operation set up for the general benefit of tourism visitors.  The category includes attractions and/or experiences that are publicly and/or privately owned. 

Visitor Transport

This award is open to all transportation and/or tour providers (group tours and touring operators) that include self drive modes of transport, services that operate regularly according to published schedules or timetables, pre packaged tours, sightseeing and guided tours (1/2 day or longer), including cruises. 

Horwath HTL Sir Jack Newman

Nominees for this award will have an outstandingly innovative contribution to tourism throughout a distinguished career in the industry.

Outstanding Contribution to Tourism

Nominees for this award will have an outstandingly innovative contribution to tourism over the last 1-2 years.

PATA Young Tourism Entrepreneur

This award is open to individuals, aged 35 or under, within the tourism industry who have demonstrated outstanding innovation, leadership, professional excellence and entrepreneurship within their tourism entity and/or wider tourism industry.