Awards Recognise Tourisms Best

Awards Recognise Tourisms Best

Excellence in air and road transport operators has been recognised in the Tourism Industry Awards 2006.

Innovation recognition

Spaceships says its win is recognition that it is an innovative niche product which appeals to the mainstream travel market.

Spaceships are custom fitted Toyota people movers with travelling equipment such as oven, fridge, double bed and DVD player with en route planning. The versatility of Spaceships makes them appealing to travellers, and the business is constantly looking for ways to exceed customer expectations and modify the product to cater for more niche markets.

The approach utilised by the company for premarket research was extensive and resulted in the concept of a ‘Space Traveller’ for a niche backpacker market, which the judges said gives the company a unique selling point which would be very hard to replicate.

The judges said both their launch and implementation of their bright orange brand have been hugely innovative, as is the Space Station concept which provides a local contact place for people renting the vehicles.

By this summer there’ll be 200 Spaceships on New Zealand roads.

on schedule : Newsletter for the TIA Transport Sector
ISSUE : 05 // DECEMBER 2006