Fortis Events is a New Zealand-owned event and group travel company with an office in Freemans Bay, Auckland. It creates and manages bespoke incentive programmes, conferences, special events and group travel, both within New Zealand and offshore, and says it has worked with some of the country's largest companies on incentives and conferences. Its LinkedIn profile gives 2016 as the founding year and describes a team of between two and ten people.
### Services
Incentives. Fortis specialises in creating and executing bespoke global incentive trips on behalf of clients. Beyond the classic sales reward trip, it also handles management retreats and workshops, team away weekends, staff rewards programmes and customer travel prizes.
Conferences. The company manages conferences in New Zealand and offshore. Once it has the brief, it recommends a location, then handles planning and detail, including negotiating supplier rates on the client's behalf. It can also arrange team-building activities, guest speakers, workshop content, gala dinners and dine-arounds.
Special events. Planning and delivery of client functions, launch events and milestone celebrations.
Group travel. Social, sports and enthusiast club trips and multi-generational family travel, using the company's supplier network for group flights and block accommodation, plus group airport transfers, restaurant and activity bookings, special charters and group travel insurance. Fortis works closely with an in-house holiday and corporate travel team, so flights and accommodation can be handled alongside the event itself.
### Sports and entertainment hospitality
A visible part of the business is packaged travel to major international events, sold both to companies and to individuals. Current and recent packages listed on its site include the Rugby World Cup in Australia, State of Origin at Eden Park, Australia v Black Caps test cricket, the Australian Open, the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, LIV Golf Adelaide, the Repco Supercars Championship and Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, along with All Blacks travel and hospitality experiences. The site displays official travel agent and sub-agent partner marks for several of these properties.
### How organisers use them
For a MICE buyer, Fortis is an incentive house and conference organiser with an unusually strong sports and entertainment hospitality line — useful where the reward programme is built around attending a major event rather than a destination itinerary. The hands-on, partnership-based approach it describes suits organisations that want one agency handling brief, destination, supplier negotiation and on-the-ground delivery.
Contactable on 09 979 5080 or team@fortisevents.co.nz.
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