Meet Your Luxury New Zealand
Travel Experts – Wayne & Kathy
Crafted Luxury, Seamless Journeys
At New Zealand Luxury Travel Agents, we specialise in designing bespoke, high-end travel experiences that celebrate the very best of Aotearoa. Every itinerary is carefully tailored to your interests, blending world-class luxury lodges, private guided experiences, and exclusive encounters that go far beyond the ordinary.
As part of the KWH Journeys family, we are supported by a trusted network of specialised travel brands. Alongside New Zealand Luxury Travel Agents, our group includes New Zealand Package Holidays, offering curated tours across both islands; New Zealand Private Tours, creating personalised itineraries with private guides; Remarkable Scenic Tours, delivering boutique day tours from Queenstown; and Australian Custom Tours, crafting exceptional tailor-made journeys across Australia.
Together, our brands share one vision: to deliver seamless planning, exceptional service, and authentic experiences that turn travel into a memory of a lifetime.
Greetings from New Zealand
Meet your luxury travel designers and personal guides, Wayne and Kathy—Queenstown locals with a lifetime of global exploration behind them. Both seasoned travellers, they’ve lived in Europe and Australia (Kathy is originally Australian) and, in 2010, sold everything to embark on a two-year journey around the world with their children.
Along the way, they experienced nearly every style of travel—small special-interest tours, wildlife and history excursions, hop-on-hop-off sightseeing, and self-driving adventures in a motorhome. That epic journey inspired them to create New Zealand Luxury Travel Agents, the VIP division of New Zealand Private Tours, dedicated to offering the kind of travel they loved most: intimate, personalised experiences with exceptional attention to detail.
Today, Wayne and Kathy design and host unforgettable journeys through New Zealand, sharing its breathtaking landscapes, rich stories, and warm hospitality—all with the seamless service and refined touches that discerning travellers expect.
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Wayne
Wayne is a born-and-bred South Islander, so his knowledge of the Central Otago region goes way back, and his passion for the region is infectious. He’s the master of making people feel at ease with his relaxed and positive nature, and he’s famous for his dad jokes.
As past President of the Queenstown Photography Club, Wayne’s also happy to help you get the perfect photo – he has great insight how to best capture the magic of our spectacular scenery, whether you prefer to be behind the lens, or in front of it.
“The best memories are those where you connect with local people, where you’re a person, not just a number. We’ll always remember one Jamaican trip where our taxi driver took us to a beach, and introduced us to a lady who cooks for the homeless. We met some amazing, friendly locals and shared a drink with them, while they told us about their lives.
We want our guests to leave each tour feeling not only that they’ve had a great day out, but that they’ve made some new friends.”
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Kathy
You could say the warmth in Kathy’s welcome is legendary. Helpful and friendly, she’s a self-confessed people person, who loves problem solving and making connections. This makes her a whizz at creating unique private tours with experiences to suit her guests.
Her extensive travels make her especially good at relating to what people from diverse cultures want from their tour. In fact, she delights in sharing cultural experiences with guests – from learning how to Bollywood dance (in Glenorchy, of all places!) with Indian guests, to sharing food with guests from the Philippines (although she draws the line at Balut/duck embryo).
“ You just can’t beat a local recommendation; some things aren’t mentioned in the guide books. We had an experience like this in Iceland when a local told us about a secret hot-water mineral pool. It took a lot of searching, but in the end we found it. The water was warm and crystal clear, the kids were so excited and it was a real highlight.
It’s that sense of wonder and inclusion that we want to recreate for our guests.”