{"id":12304,"date":"2013-09-05T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/one-ocean-expands-into-australia\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:50:54","slug":"one-ocean-expands-into-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/09\/one-ocean-expands-into-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"One Ocean Expands into Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JG6vUDdBEBU\/UCpM2BWROZI\/AAAAAAAAXi8\/C6SJCkQzVTw\/s1600\/Ioffe_1222-763511.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JG6vUDdBEBU\/UCpM2BWROZI\/AAAAAAAAXi8\/C6SJCkQzVTw\/s320\/Ioffe_1222-763511.jpg\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span>Akademik Ioffe in the Arctic (R Eime)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>by Louise Goldsbury, editor, <a href=\"http:\/\/cruiseweekly.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cruise Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OOE expands Australian operation One Ocean Expeditions has appointed its first permanent Australia-based manager to serve its growing network of local wholesale and retail partners.<\/p>\n<p>RichaRd Cunningham, a former manager at Active Travel, has taken on the newly created role of sales, marketing and PR manager Australia\/NZ\/SE Asia of One Ocean Expeditions, the polar cruise company founded by Andrew Prossin in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Prossin said Australia had rapidly grown to become \u201ca very important market\u201d for the company, which was previously represented on a smaller scale by the Active Travel team in Sydney. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe move to appoint a permanent Australian manager is in response to increased demand for the One Ocean product from a broad range of cruise wholesalers and specialist polar, adventure and small ship <br \/>cruise sellers,\u201d Prossin said. \u201cWe place a huge focus on customer service aboard our ships and we aim to replicate this service-based approach with our sales partners around the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham, who worked with Prossin at Peregrine Adventures more than 10 years ago, also held a marketing role at World Expeditions and was instrumental in bringing the OOE product to Australia in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne Ocean Expeditions has certainly found its mark in Australia\u201d, he said. \u201cThe Akademik Ioffe and Akademik Sergey Vavilov are very well known to Australian travellers, and the innovative team at OOE has changed the polar scene, introducing a raft of new initiatives over the past few years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Season 2014-15 will be OOE\u2019s sixth in the Antarctic, with a record 21 departures as well as seven voyages in the High Arctic next year, including the Canadian Arctic, West Greenland, and Spitsbergen.<\/p>\n<p>For info, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneoceanexpeditions.com\/\">www.oneoceanexpeditions.com<\/a> or phone 0410 417 006.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akademik Ioffe in the Arctic (R Eime) by Louise Goldsbury, editor, Cruise Weekly OOE expands Australian operation One Ocean Expeditions has appointed its first permanent Australia-based manager to serve its growing network of local wholesale and retail partners. 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