Crown Institute scholarship winner lands fantastic job

Crown Institute scholarship winner lands fantastic job with GO Holidays

Crown Institute and ex Glenfield College student Samantha Morris has just completed her scholarship with New Caledonia tourism and has landed herself with a fantastic job at wholesaler GO Holidays as one of their Asia consultants.

Samantha completed the Crown Certficate in International, Travel, Tourism and Airline Studies course in August. From this course she has gained both New Zealand and International qualifications in Travel and Tourism.

Samantha always had a desire to pursue a career in the airline or retail travel sector. It was a former flatmate of Samantha who mentioned her positive experience at Crown Institute; the same person had gone on to pursue a successful career in the airline industry. That was reason enough for Samantha to visit Crown.

“After visiting the school and being shown around, there was no doubt that this was where I wanted to pursue my studies as I had a very positive feeling from the tutors and staff” said Samantha.

Samantha was one of many Crown travel and tourism students who applied for the scholarship with New Caledonia Tourism. Out of the several students interviewed, New Caledonia Tourism was impressed with Samantha’s enthusiasm.

With a view to offering an opportunity to a growing travel professional whilst bringing destination New Caledonia to the foreground of the learning environment, General Manager of New Caledonia Tourism in New Zealand Mr Simon Duffy, founded the scholarship program in 2006 in conjunction with Crown Institute.

“I chose Crown as I felt it was the most professionally run school I had visited; I was also impressed at their graduates’ rate of success finding employment post-study,” says Mr Duffy.

Part of the scholarship package was work experience at the New Caledonia Tourism office and $1000 towards her course costs at the completion of her studies.

Samantha’s years of customer service experience, the scholarship from New Caledonia Tourism partnered up with the qualification from Crown all helped Samantha in getting her dream job.

For almost forty years Crown has been of New Zealand’s leading schools. Locally owned and proudly independent, Crowns style is professional and friendly. Excellent programmes in English Language, Travel and Tourism, Hospitality and Business are on offer at Crown.

Crown is recognised as a quality leader by New Zealand and international employers.

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