Hamilton Motel Scoops AA Supreme Host of the Year

Media Release: 2 August 2010

Hamilton Motel Scoops AA Supreme Host of the Year Award

Murray and Phillippa Brown’s outstanding hospitality at their Abbey Travel Lodge Motel in Hamilton has earned them the prestigious 2010 AA Supreme Host of the Year Award.

In conjunction with the Motel Association of New Zealand (MANZ), AA Tourism CEO Peter Blackwell presented the award on Saturday night during the MANZ annual conference award dinner at SKYCITY Hamilton, with the rest of the conference being held at the Novotel Tainui in Hamilton.

“Murray and Phillippa are role models for the industry and are to be congratulated on their exceptional level of hospitality,” said Mr Blackwell.

“The comment cards we received from guests staying at Abbey Travel Lodge Motel reflected the importance that Murray and Phillippa place on hospitality. Their friendliness and kindness has obviously had an enormous impact on their guests,” says Mr Blackwell.

The three other finalists in the running for the top award included another Hamilton motel – the Barclay Motel, the Queens Park Motel in Invercargill and the Coachman Motel in Taihape.

Motel Association of New Zealand Chief Executive, Michael Baines says the excellent hospitality shown by the four finalists made it difficult to find a winner.

“The Abbey Travel Lodge Motel was deserving of the award and Murray and Phillippa should be very proud. Our three other finalists also received tremendous appraise for their hospitality and I extend my congratulations to each of them,” says Mr Baines.

“Hospitality is the essence of the tourism industry and the association is grateful to AA Tourism for recognising this and rewarding our top New Zealand motel hosts,” says Mr Baines.

Award finalists and winners are selected based on comment cards sent in by guests

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