Friday, 07 September 2018
Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia has welcomed well-respected Australian travel industry leader Grant Hunt as CEO.
Grant is actually returning to the role, he headed Voyages Hotels and Resorts for more than a decade from 1996-2006. Previously Grant’s achievements included the development of Longitude 131 and The Lost Camel Hotel, the establishment of the Mutitjulu Foundation and the production of the Travel Industry’s first ever report on Corporate Social Responsibility.
During that time Grant also oversaw the expansion of the company from a single resort asset at Uluru to a portfolio of 23 hotels and resorts across 17 of Australia’s most sensitive and remote destinations, many of which are within National Parks and World Heritage areas.
Since his time at Voyages Grant developed his own nature-based tourism company, Anthology, and was owner of Hunt Tourism Services, a specialist advisory service to the experiential tourism and travel sector with a focus on nature-based tourism. He has chaired several key industry boards including The Australian Tourism Data Warehouse, The Commonwealth Icon Sites Task Force, Tourism Tasmania and Tourism Northern Territory. He also served on the board of Tourism Australia and was a member of the Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park Board of Management.
“My previous time at Voyages was both professionally and personally rewarding – the company and Ayers Rock Resort is in my blood,” said Grant. “To return to find the destination prospering with innovative installations such as the Field of Light and with 40% Indigenous employment is fantastic,” he said.
