About the Team

  • Rebecca Young

    Rebecca has been in the travel industry for 6 years, starting out as a corporate consultant for large airline, and has been in wholesale for the last 3 years with Adventure World.

    She has lived in America and London, backpacked through South America, travelled overland through East Africa and relaxed on the beautiful beaches in Thailand. Her ultimate highlight was definitely Gorilla trekking in Rwanda!!!

    She has a passion for people and loves the diverse nature of organising groups. Nothing is too much trouble for Adventure World Groups. She looks forward to working with you on any future group prospects.

    Fiona Reid

    Fiona has been in the Travel Industry for 19 years (she started young!!) mostly in Wholesale with some time in Retail. With a passion for North America, Fiona has been with Adventure World for 6 years and is our resident expert for North America, Europe, South Pacific and Ski.

    “Fi’s” travel highlights include cycling the beautiful wineries and towns in Provence, exploring small villages on the Peloponnese Coast in Greece, relaxing in a Tuscany Villa in Italy, diving with sea snakes in Niue, patting a white Tiger at Dreamworld, bungy jumping in Queenstown and of course, she saved the best for last ...Fiona actually bumped into Brad Pitt while hiking the Grand Canyon! Next on the list is the Big 5 of Africa.

    She has seen a lot of changes in the industry over the years and still enjoys everyday helping out with clients travel plans whether it be for conference, incentive, school or leisure groups and looks forward is assisting you with any group enquiry.

    Lara Kamionka

    Lara has been in the travel industry for 10 years, starting out in retail travel and moving her way through to wholesale to be an Africa and South America specialist with Adventure World.

    She has lived all her life in South Africa and travelled on a number of safaris through Kenya and Tanzania. Lara’s travel highlights include the Big 5, been up the mountain that looks like a table, listened to the roar of the mighty Victoria Falls and jumped off its bridge, danced with the Masai and patted a great rhino, spent time on a deserted beach in the Seychelles, walked some of the many trails in the Drakensberg.

    Her ultimate place to live and retire would be on a private island in the Seychelles.

    She is looking forward to assisting you with any group enquiry from incentives to conference groups, school groups or leisure. She has just recently got married on Rarotonga so will be able to assist with any weddings and their parties.

    For more information contact our Groups Department on 0508 496 753 or email groups@adventureworld.co.nz.