Based in Auckland New Zealand, we provide the most extensive range of high-quality Auckland Tours available.
We are very passionate about Auckland and Aotearoa - New Zealand - and wish to share its most amazing places with all our guests.
We are New Zealanders that are extremely passionate about Tamaki Makaurau (Auckland) and Aotearoa (New Zealand). Ceillhe is a New Zealander of Maori descent, who has excellent contacts with groups involved in this fascinating culture that is so much part of New Zealand. This is very much reflected in the extensive range of high-quality Auckland Tours that we provide. Ceillhe is also a direct descendant of 2 very prominet Maori chiefs that helped shape New Zealand - see Cultural Heritage and Protocols.
Our unrivalled enthusiasm for what we do, unique and highly personal Auckland and NZ Tours, knowledge of and access to truly exceptional places and cultural experiences, plus our knowledge of both international and Maori culture is what sets us apart from other tourism operators. Plus we have in 2010 and 2011 alone won 3 significant tourism awards including a worldwide tourism award, all of which we are very proud of - see below.
We believe in providing exceptional and personalised customer service to all of our discerning and valued clients. This is why our Auckland Tours are very personal tours to ensure a high-quality and truly personal experience. We also offer Private Luxury Tours and larger groups on request, so please contact us. Our success is based mainly on referrals from travelers who have been thrilled with the unique experiences around Auckland that we have offered them.
Our Auckland Kite Fishing Tours are a world-first and we have also pioneered our highly successful Kayak Fishing Tours in New Zealand, while all our other Auckland Tours are also distinctive in various ways. This is because of the high quality and attention to detail provided on our Auckland Tours. We ensure that all our tours are very personal, lots of fun and of the highest quality.
Key People
Our company and growing team is managed by its two Directors Néill and Ceillhe Sperath:
Neill Sperath is a passionate New Zealander by choice. He is of Irish and German descent and has become a proud New Zealander and a New Zealand citizen since relocating from Europe several years ago, after falling in love with New Zealand and Ceillhe. Previous to that he lived mainly in Ireland and Germany and is well travelled, having visited over 40 countries so far. Before coming to New Zealand Neill managed several large shopping centres in Europe.
He is now responsible for all marketing and general business for TIME Unlimited Tours. Not to forget that he is the proud father of Danica Matariki Sperath, Neill and Ceillhe's beautiful, part-Maori Daughter. She was born in Tamaki Makaurau (Auckland) around Matariki (the Maori New Year) in 2009.
Ceillhe Sperath - full name Ceillhe Tewhare Teneti Hema Sperath - is a New Zealander of Maori descent from the Ngapuhi tribe in Northland with the added bonus of an Irish influence on her paternal side. Ceillhe is a direct descendant of Patuone ("The Peacemaker") and Tamati Waka Nene, two of the main signatories on the Treaty of Waitangi - New Zealand's founding document in 1840. That of course also makes our beautiful daughter Danica Matariki a direct descendant of Patuone and Tamati Waka Nene - see Maori Cultural Heritage and Protocols.
She is experienced in the fields of Management Consulting, especially in Quality and Risk Management, which benefits our company greatly. In addition to her full-time role managing our company, she was until recently the Co-Chair of the New Zealand Maori Tourism Council and chairs the National Maori Heart Foundation (Te Hotu Manawa Maori) Board of Directors.
She is additionally a member of several other national boards in New Zealand, including the New Zealand Organisation for Quality, of which she is a past and youngest-ever president. Ceillhe is passionate about her indigenous Maori culture and wishes to share her real Maori culture with our guests in an authentic way via our Maori Culture Experiences and Auckland Maori Tours.
We provide exceptional and unique tours, as well as a high degree of professionalism and outstanding knowledge about and passion for Tamaki Makaurau (Auckland) and Aotearoa (New Zealand).
We are proud to be a full member of the Tourism Industry Association of New Zealand - a membership-based and funded organisation representing the interests of over 3,500 businesses in the New Zealand tourism industry. We are also proud to have been certified as one of New Zealand's leading tourism businesses, achieving not only certification as a Qualmark endorsed company but in addition the prestigious Qualmark Enviro GOLD Award - see our Qualmark Enviro Gold Press Release - as a tourism business with excellence in environmental performance.
TIME Unlimited Tours is a multi award-winning company that has a strong focus on quality, integrity and environmental sustainability. We finished runner-up in the global ITBW (Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website) Award in 2009 out of 15 applicants from around the world. In 2010 we went one better and won this highly prestigious GLOBAL tourism award, which we are very proud of. Please see the Press Release for our 2010 ITBW Award Win!
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