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Emphasising that there are plenty of new options in Hawaii for corporate incentives and meetings was a major objective for a delegation visiting Auckland from the state yesterday.

By Megan Singleton

A travel agent self-famil programme, with a trove of discounts from operators, was launched at Hawaii’s annual Aloha Downunder visit when it kicked off in Auckland this week.

A shared vision of increasing New Zealand incentive and other business event traffic to their destinations (and a dose of mutual mateship) motivated Joey Templin of Club Med and Kris Phadungkiatipong of Meet Hawai’i Oceania to host an intimate and highly targeted trade gathering at Voco Auckland Hotel on Thursday.

Clients heading to Waikiki may not have thoughts of getting muddy in a taro patch top of mind. However, during a new tour at Kualoa Ranch, about an hour’s drive from the famous beach’s resorts, that’s one of the experiences on hand.

A new tour at Pearl Harbour allows visitors to hear and see (or at least visualise) the 7 December 1941 attack like they have not been able to before.

The Top of the Tower tour is the latest drawcard to the Pearl Harbour Aviation Museum and gets guests 15 storeys above the ground (via a small elevator built in the 40s and some narrow stairs).

Both the trade and consumers have quickly responded to the relaunch of services between Auckland and Honolulu, with the first Hawaiian Airlines flight out of AKL on Monday night full and a major agents’ initative coming up seeing big demand.

Darragh Walshe, of Hawai’i Tourism in New Zealand, says the Aloha Downunder event scheduled for 29 August in Auckland is ‘basically sold out’.

Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), has announced the return to service of Pride of America.

The 15th ship in its fleet to return to service, Pride of America, sails weekly seven-day, roundtrip voyages from Honolulu, providing guests nearly 100 hours of port time and the ability to explore four islands in a week’s span.