Amway Incentive Travel Welcomed
22 April 2016
For Immediate Release
Amway
Incentive Travel Welcomed
Garth Wyllie, Executive Director of the Direct Selling Association of New Zealand welcomed today the news that Amway would be bringing 10,000 top achieving salespeople from China to Queenstown in 2018.
Mr Wyllie said “Direct Selling Companies
such as Amway every year take large numbers of their sales
force to different locations around the world and New
Zealand Tourism needed to tap into this area more”
He
points out that “This group follows several smaller Amway
groups brought to New Zealand over the past few years of
around 500 people which has built the attraction for New
Zealand as a location within the company.”
“This is recognition of the profile work undertaken by Tourism NZ and the effect that high profile films have had over recent times to make NZ more attractive” he said.
He said
“the opportunity is massive but these incentive groups
from this industry sector and they do not happen by accident
as considerable work must happen to attract companies to
bring their incentive groups to New
Zealand’.
“Discussions on this possibility have been
ongoing for a couple of years and so this announcement is a
huge success for New Zealand Tourism”.
Mr Wyllie said “Amway has just demonstrated it strong commitment to New Zealand with this announcement and it operates a vibrant business in New Zealand as well as this commitment”.
“We look forward to more Direct Selling companies considering New Zealand for their incentive trips in future years but tourism operators will need to ensure they can handle the many thousands of attendees for such travel if this is to be on-gong’ said Mr Wyllie
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