Q. What areas of the travel and tourism industry have you worked in?

A. Cruise ship, Travel Agency, Teaching English in Japan, Consolidator, Car hire, Sales Rep

Q. What was your favourite job in the industry?

A. Working on a cruise ship was awesome! Sailing the South Pacific, earning a tax-free salary, but it was hard work.

Q. Where have you traveled around the world and what was your best travel experience?

A. Pretty much all of Asia, Europe, North America, Vanuatu & New Caledonia & of course Australia!

Most memorable travel experience was playing cricket in India with kids from a slum area with the setting sun & the Taj Mahal as the backdrop!

Q. What do you love the most about working at Travel Careers & Training?

A. The students of course! Its great seeing them graduate at the end of their course.

A colleague of mine flies from one main city in NZ to another every Monday morning where I meet her at the airport and bring her into the office.

Now I already knew that a high percentage of our students leave us to start their dream career in the Travel and Tourism industry, but I think this story is pretty great.

So far, over the last five weeks, every Monday flight that my colleague has flown on has had a graduate of ours as the flight attendant and every Monday it’s a different one!

They are all loving their work, loving being in the travel and tourism industry, and LOVING seeing a familiar face on their flights (except for the embarrassing moments when my colleague is so proud of them that she claps at the end of their announcements awesome!)

Well, 2010 is well underway…I can’t believe it’s almost the end of summer!

Before the new classes started for the year, all staff from Travel Careers & Training attended our annual conference – this year it was held at the Chateau Tongariro in the central north island of NZ… the perfect location for some fantastic activities including a Volcano Survival game and a Murder Mystery evening!

Check out these photos of some stunning outfits that our travel, tourism and flight attending tutors wore to the 1920’s themed evening …we certainly have campuses full of fun characters!