Our Story
The Travel Agents
Holland Clarke & Beatson is a Christchurch owned and operated Travel Agency, with three committed Directors having a passion for excellence and innovation, working in the business on a daily basis. We are still setting the standards. Our first responsibility is to our clients. Client service is our highest priority. Our team is passionate about travelling and arranging travel for our customers, we make the booking process seamless like no other. Combined, we have a wealth of worldwide travel experiences and we understand that each client has different needs, expectations and goals.
Maybe the reason people have been travelling with us for decades is that we make travel easy, We specialise in creating what you want, when you want and with value that will constantly surprise you. Our three divisions within the company - Group Travel, Business Travel, and Holiday Travel give our clients an uncompromised level of options and service. Within these three divisions we arrange travel throughout New Zealand and around the world for couples, families, executives, sports teams and schools.
We are a part of the First Travel Group - New Zealand’s leading independent travel alliance. Formed in 1999, FIRST is made up of over 69 long established, independently owned, professional travel businesses that have offices throughout New Zealand offering an extensive array of exclusive travel opportunities.
In January 2015 Holland Clarke & Beatson became a member of Virtuoso. Virtuoso is the travel industry’s leading luxury network. This organisation includes more than 330 agencies with 7,200 elite Advisors in 20 countries throughout North and South America, the Caribbean, Australia, and New Zealand. Travellers who use Virtuoso’s Advisors get access to more than 1,300 of the world’s premier travel providers, as well as exclusive services, experiences, and products.