ICCA 2011
Photos from Cruise Awards 2011 Click thumbnails for high resolution image |
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 They started it all … Silversea’s Karen Christensen and Steve Odell launched the inaugural ICCA awards in 2001 when Odell was the association’s chairman and Christensen was its general manager. |
 Two industry doyens catch up … Cruiseco chairman Kevin Dale with the legendary Ted Blamey. |
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 Presumably spruiking the advantages of Singapore’s lavish cruise terminal, Michelle Thoo and Sandra Leong are welcomed by ICCA’s Brett Jardine and Tony Soden (Royal Caribbean). |
 Another industry legend … Captain Trevor Haworth, founder of Captain Cook Cruises, left, with daughter and joint managing director of CCC, Jackie Haworth-Charlton and Peter Emery. |
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 Diane Patrick, right, with members of her Wiltrans team, from left, Karen Maier and Daniel Reynolds. |
 Birgit Eisbrenner, right with members of her Hurtigruten team, from left, Stephanie Nuzzo and Leonida Mabini. |
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 Dario Rustic (Costa Cruises) meets up with Cruiseco’s Marita Lam, left, and Amber Wilson. |
 Group shot of winners |
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 From left Stan Birge (Princess Cruises), Catherine Allison (JTG), Christian Hunter (Travellers Choice) and Don Clark (Complete Cruise Solution). |
 Peter Eggleston (JTG), left, and Peter Oliver (Windsong Travel) enjoyed meeting up at the awards. |
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 Champion Travel’s Michelle Hartland and Michelle Dekker came all the way from WA. And why not? Dekker was one of the three finalists in the Rising Star Award. |
 Leading PR consultant briefs leading journalist … Sue Marsh, left, with Maggy Oehlbeck. |
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 The Avalon Waterways team was all smiles – from left, Nikki Pascoe, Fiona Sainsbury and Mary-Ann Pontifex. |
 The team from JTG showing they taking cruising seriously these days, from left, Peter Forsyth, Warwick Blacker and Chris Phillips. |
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 Peter Forsyth (JTG) with better half Rosie Forsyth (Moneydirect). |
 Murray and Robyn Sinfield (who headed RACT Travelworld when it took out the inaugural ICCA Cruise Agency of the Year award) were excited about this year’s awards – and about the fact that they’ve booked a Silversea cruise for March. |
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 A spontaneous standing ovation from the 400 people attending the Cruise Industry Awards greeted the announcement that Helen Hutcheon had taken out the Neil Frazer Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Cruise Industry. |
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 Patrick Hutcheon mingled with cruise royalty. On his left is ecruising’s Phiippa Dudley whose business card wittily describes her as “Queen of Everything” and on his left is wife, Helen, doyen of Australian cruise writers, who took out this year’s Neil Frazer Award for outstanding contribution to the cruise industry by an individual. |
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 Australia’s Gold Agency of the Year award went to WA’s Bicton Travel and was accepted by Matt Clements, second from left, and Phil Smethurst, third from left, pictured with Fergus Stoddart from the award sponsor Edge Custom Media, and awards night MC Shelley Craft. It was a double celebration for Smethurst who also took out the Frank Johnson Award for Australia’s Cruise Consultant of the Year. |
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