{"id":4356,"date":"2009-07-09T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2009-07-09T03:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:10:00","slug":"aurora-expeditions-appoints-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/07\/aurora-expeditions-appoints-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Expeditions Appoints New CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SlVfYnRwe4I\/AAAAAAAAG2U\/aDNY7qSP82M\/s1600-h\/Lisa+Bolton.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356292208292035458\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SlVfYnRwe4I\/AAAAAAAAG2U\/aDNY7qSP82M\/s200\/Lisa+Bolton.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Adventure Travel Company, Aurora Expeditions, has announced the appointment of Lisa Bolton as the company\u2019s Chief Executive Officer.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment follows the retirement of founder, Greg Mortimer, who sold the business at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Mortimer, the first Australian to climb Mount Everest and a veteran of more than 100 voyages to Antarctica, will continue to lead expeditions for the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to continuing the legacy that Greg Mortimer created, pushing the boundaries of adventure and expeditionary travel and making it possible for travellers to experience the wildest and remotest corners of the planet,\u201d said Bolton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great privilege to follow in the footsteps of one of the pioneers of expedition travel, and I am pleased to be involved in the next development stage of one of Australia\u2019s most successful adventure companies,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton previously held roles with Carnival Australia (P&#038;O Cruises) and Qantas Airways.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Aurora Expeditions is an Australian adventure company specialising in small group expedition-style travel to Polar Regions and other wild and remote places such as The Russian Far East, Papua New Guinea and The Kimberley Coast. A world leader in polar cruising, Aurora offers their travellers the chance to have an intimate experience in these regions with their flexible, innovative itineraries. On some voyages, mountain climbing, sea kayaking, photography and scuba diving options are available and Aurora\u2019s expert naturalists, historians, staff and crew help to unlock the wonders of these special places. Deeply committed to education and preservation of the environment, Aurora&#8217;s founders, Greg Mortimer and Margaret Werner are veterans of almost three decades of Antarctic research, private Antarctic mountaineering expeditions and polar travel. For more information about Aurora visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auroraexpeditions.com.au\/\">http:\/\/www.auroraexpeditions.com.au\/<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adventure Travel Company, Aurora Expeditions, has announced the appointment of Lisa Bolton as the company\u2019s Chief Executive Officer. The appointment follows the retirement of founder, Greg Mortimer, who sold the business at the end of last year. Mortimer, the first Australian to climb Mount Everest and a veteran of more than 100 voyages to Antarctica, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aurora-expeditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}