| OOE expands Australian operation

One Ocean Expeditions has
appointed its first permanent
Australia-based manager to
serve its growing network
of local wholesale and retail
partners.
Richard Cunningham, a former manager
at Active Travel, has taken on the newly
created role of sales, marketing and PR
manager Australia/NZ/SE Asia of One Ocean
Expeditions, the polar cruise company founded
by Andrew Prossin in Canada.
Prossin said Australia had rapidly grown to
become “a very important market” for the
company, which was previously represented
on a smaller scale by the Active Travel team in
Sydney.
“The move to appoint a permanent
Australian manager is in response to increased
demand for the One Ocean product from
a broad range of cruise wholesalers and
specialist polar, adventure and small ship
cruise sellers,” Prossin said.
“We place a huge focus on customer service
aboard our ships and we aim to replicate
this service-based approach with our sales
partners around the globe.”
Cunningham, who worked with Prossin at
Peregrine Adventures more than 10 years
ago, also held a marketing role at World
Expeditions and was instrumental in bringing
the OOE product to Australia in 2007.
“One Ocean Expeditions has certainly found
its mark in Australia”, he said.
“The Akademik Ioffe and Akademik Sergey
Vavilov are very well known to Australian
travellers, and the innovative team at OOE has
changed the polar scene, introducing a raft of
new initiatives over the past few years”.
Season 2014-15 will be OOE’s sixth in the
Antarctic, with a record 21 departures as well
as seven voyages in the High Arctic next year,
including the Canadian Arctic, West Greenland,
and Spitsbergen.
For info, visit www.oneoceanexpeditions.com
or phone 0410 417 006.