ROSIE Holidays, Nanuku Island Resort and IHG Hotels and Resorts Fiji were among the big winners at the 2025 ANZ Fiji Excellence in Tourism Awards in Nadi last Saturday.
Rosie Holidays claimed three awards (2025 Inbound and Transport Operator Award, 2025 Cultural Tourism Champion Rosie Holiday’s Eroni Bole and 2025 Accommodation Deluxe (Less than 50 rooms) Malolo Island Resort) and Intercontinental Fiji Golf Resort won two trophies (Conference and Incentives Operator of the Year, Training and Development Award and the Rising Star award for Intercontinental Resort IT manager Akshay Alvin Chand).
“For the Rosie Travel Group we have over 700 employees and our resorts which are Likuliku Island Resort and Malolo Island Resort, and their staff so tonight has been a recognition of their amazing work and contributions to excellence,” Rosie Travel Group and Ahura Resorts managing director Tony Whitton said.
IHG Hotels and Resorts Fiji and Pacific regional general manager Lachlan Walker said their people were their most prized asset.
“We are dedicated to ensuring that our people are empowered through our training and development initiatives and then to have someone like Akshay win the Rising Star award demonstrates the dedication that we have to seeing our people excel in their fields,” said Mr Walker.
Meanwhile, Pacific Harbour-based Nanuku Island Resort went home with the Community CSR award for their exceptional work in neighbouring villages and communities in Serua.
The resort also scooped the 2025 Food Tourism Award.
Resort human resources manager Charlotte Steele said the award was a recognition of a work they have done for the last four years.
“This has been four years in the making,” Ms Steele said.
“We would like to dedicate this award to our staff back home in Pacific Harbour because without them we would not have been able to achieve this.”
