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Tracey and Kaarin took to the slopes for the grand re-launch of Club Med Sahoro.
Pure powder, loadsa fun and a ski tan to return home for summer with….

The great new look on location magazine is out now and free from your local Holiday Shoppe travel agent throughout New Zealand. Packed with great stories from around the globe, travel tips and news pieces, on location is the perfect place to start planning your next escape.

Editorial management is by 4PR (Tracey Mehrtens – editor & Louise Sneddon – news editor), stories from some of NZ’s top travel writers and from the frontline of travel, Holiday Shoppe travel consultants and customers.
Production by Consortium. Happy holiday planning!

It’s October and the 4PR events team staged a ‘Positively Pink’ evening for client Methven who as a sponsor of the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation wanted to share the spirit and message of ‘Pink October’ with their valued female clients.

The evening presented an information seminar from NZBCF to push home the ‘early detection is the best protection’ and then in the spirit of women coming together for an evening there was a ‘Shades of Pink’ fashion show by renowned New Zealand designer and businesswoman, Annah Stretton. The beautiful pink designs were modelled by young talent from Catwalk Studios whilst guests enjoyed pink grapefruit juice and pink Sofia bubbles.

Tracey Mehrtens takes part in a media famil to Malaysia and heads on location to some new hot spots in one of her favourite destinations……

“Talk about making good use of space. Who would have ever thought that an old quarry could be transformed into an entertainment mecca; complete with water theme park, zoo, mini-Disneyland fun park and huge hotel spilling down the side of the quarry.

The flying fox that runs off to the right of this bridge at Sunway Lagoon Resort and Spa, just out of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, whizzes over the giant wave pool depositing you ever nicely in front of a bar – a bottle of Tiger beer is a must after working up such a sweat!”

On location magazine got a taste of Tassie – just in time for the October issue. Louise got up close and personal with the devils at cradle mountain and got into some great Tassie action which ranged from kayaking to hiking to indulging in fantastic food and wine! A land of beauty, bounty and balance….

Setting the theme around the world’s largest lagoon for New Caledonia Tourism ‘Go Somewhere New’ travel agent roadshows..

On the road with New Caledonia Tourism taking the message to ‘Go Somewhere New’ to Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch travel agents.

The 4PR events team picked up PAICE for New Caledonia operators at the annual Pacific Asia Incentive & Conference Expo held in August at Auckland’s Eden Park in August. The carpeted stand area was transformed into a turqoise and white chic South Pacific scape complete with sandy fringe. Professional conference organisers and incentive organisers were treated to not only first hand information from the 8 visiting operators but also to tropical fresh fruit kebabs dunked in a white chocolate fountain – which like many visitors to the stand Tracey found too tempting to resist!

Louise went on location to Club Med Ria Bintan to showcase this region and another great Club Med resort to New Zealand media. In addition to guest media stories, Louise also wrote about her own experiences both on and off course in Bintan. ‘Beauty and the Beast ‘ of Bintan is her first hand amateur golfing account on Asia’s top course and published in the October issue of NZ Golf Magazine.

Resort life at Club Med on the shores of the South China Sea will be featured in the October issue of Holiday Shoppe’s on location magazine – FREE from Holiday Shoppe locations throughout New Zealand or click on to www.holidayshoppe.co.nz

They might be affectionately referred to as ‘junkets’ but there was no rest at cocktail hour for media on this famil to Club Med Ria Bintan….Dominion Post photographer Craig Simcox reviews Louise’s village snaps whilst travel writer Megan Singleton takes stock of her stories on screen.