Rankers TravellerVoted Awards 2010

Rankers NZ presents awards to this years outstanding experiences, as voted by travellers to New Zealand.

A Top Ranked NZ award is quite different to any other. This time tourism operators have been assessed by the most important critic of all - the Independent Traveller.

Top Ranked NZ awards are presented annually to tourism experiences and operators which have displayed a consistently high ranking score throughout the year.

No-one is more honest than the customer.

The Rankers TravellerVoted Awards reflect the voice of the people that have recently travelled New Zealand.

  1. Judged by the most important critics - the customer.
  2. From over 10,000 votes.
  3. All tourism operators qualify for entry. Over 4000 NZ wide

Supreme Award winners are itemised first. The entire nation-wide list, in categories, but arranged by region, follows.

Supreme Awards

From all the category winners, a bunch are selected for our 'Supreme Award.' These, from over several categories, will have faced top competition from all other winners. Fair to say, that each 'Supreme Award' is mighty well earned.

  • Award-24px Green Glow eco-adventures

    Visitor Activity Supreme Winner 2010

    A small company with a growing fan club. Green Glow have shown that it takes personal service to really light the way for their customers. Cracker work Paul.

  • Award-24px Maori Tours Kaikoura

    Visitor Attraction Supreme Winner 2010

    We get the impression that visitors with Maori Tours Kaikoura come away feeling like they experienced something special and eye-opening. Nga mihi nui koutou.

  • Award-24px Wilderness Motorhomes

    Transport Provider Supreme Winner 2010

    Once again Wilderness shows they're at the top of their game in the highly competitive motorhomes market. Like 2009, traveller's continue to rave about their quality vehicles and helpful customer service. Well done Wilderness!

  • Award-24px Wanaka Kiwi Holiday Park and Motels

    Holiday Park / Camping Ground Supreme Winner 2010

    Although accommodation providers are new to Rankers it didn't take long for Aspiring Campervan Park to show their style. Guests from the world over love the facilities, friendly staff and great views.

Category Awards

Listed below are winners of each nationwide category. Tourism operators are listed within their region but are New Zealand wide winners or finalists.

North Island

South Island

Free Experience Awards

Travellers often tell us that some of their best NZ experiences are free - but free things can be hard to find.

So we followed our noses around the country and collated a load of free things to do on rankers website and apps. We then asked the traveller to tell us which free experiences they thought were best.

Here's the results. Make sure you tick them off your bucket list!

Winners and finalists can display these official badges to promote their achievement:

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Read the award FAQs for further information.

The Nitty Gritty

Here's a run down of how these tourism operators where selected.

  • Results taken from over 10 000 reviews posted between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010.
  • Those with a history of good reviews before July 1, 2009 have the best foundation.
  • All Tourism Operators apply.
  • Qualifiers for the awards have a trusted body of high quality reviews.
  • No multiple award winners. Tourism operator gains award in category of highest achievement.

Awards are in categories - depending on the number of reviews and qualifiers, as follows

  1. Categories with the most reviews and number of strong qualifiers: one winner and two finalists.
  2. Categories with a reasonable number of reviews including some strong qualifiers: one winner and one finalist.
  3. Categories with fewer reviews and generally one strong qualifier: one winner and no finalists.
  4. Categories that are yet to have a trusted body of reviews have no winners or finalists.

Media Releases

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