{"id":4506,"date":"2008-10-15T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2008-10-15T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T21:33:00","slug":"coral-princess-cruises-awarded-top-gong-at-tourism-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/10\/coral-princess-cruises-awarded-top-gong-at-tourism-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral Princess Cruises Awarded \u201cTop Gong\u201d at Tourism Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coralprincess.com.au\/ttnq2008.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 58px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coralprincess.com.au\/ttnq2008.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Coral Princess Cruises was recognised at the Tropical North Queensland (TNQ) Tourism Awards on Saturday night, taking out the top tourism award category of Major Tour and Transport Operator for the company\u2019s three, four and seven-night Great Barrier Reef cruises.<\/p>\n<p>In Coral Princess Cruises\u2019 25th anniversary year, the tourism award is welcome acknowledgement of the company\u2019s commitment to the local industry and eco-sensitive cruising on the Great Barrier Reef.<\/p>\n<p>Coral Princess Cruises\u2019 Founder and Managing Director, Tony Briggs, pioneered small ship, expedition-style cruising in Australia, beginning in North Queensland 25 years ago and still based in Cairns. In the years since, the company has grown to become Australia\u2019s premier small ship cruise line and has expanded operations to include itineraries in the Kimberley, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Melanesia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travmedia.com\/images\/db\/178167.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 200px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travmedia.com\/images\/db\/178167.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u201cBeing recognised by our industry peers in such a vibrant and competitive market is a great honour \u2013 especially in our anniversary year. We are very proud to have played a founding role in the development of environmentally-sensitive tourism in North Queensland and \u2013 along with our dedicated and highly-skilled staff &#8211; we\u2019ll continue to promote the Reef as one of the world\u2019s greatest natural wonders,\u201d said Mr Briggs.<\/p>\n<p>Coral Princess is a family-owned, eco-accredited and multi-award-winning company that operates two vessels \u2013 the Coral Princess and Coral Princess II \u2013 on the Great Barrier Reef, taking up to 48 passengers on each ship. The third ship in the company\u2019s fleet is the luxury 72-passenger Oceanic Discoverer which operates in the Kimberley, PNG, New Zealand and the Pacific. For further information, call 1800 079 545 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coralprincess.com.au\/\">www.coralprincess.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 500 tourism representatives and supporters attended the Tourism North Queensland Awards, held at the Cairns Convention Centre on Saturday, October 11, where winners who had excelled in their field over the past 12 months were announced in 23 award categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coral Princess Cruises was recognised at the Tropical North Queensland (TNQ) Tourism Awards on Saturday night, taking out the top tourism award category of Major Tour and Transport Operator for the company\u2019s three, four and seven-night Great Barrier Reef cruises. In Coral Princess Cruises\u2019 25th anniversary year, the tourism award is welcome acknowledgement of the [&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":[330],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-coral-princess-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","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=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}