International Student Tours

Introduction of the tour team such as tourguides and booking coordinator

Alina traveled to New Zealand in 2016 and has been here ever since. She fell in love with the country and is grateful to have the opportunity to work and live in this beautiful part of the world. She’s traveled both the North and South Island and is always keen to go on missions exploring corners of the country she hasn’t been to yet (and there is a lot to see in NZ :)). Previous trips took her to Australia, Canada, USA and many different places in Europe. Now working for NZdirect means she can combine her passion for travelling with her background in organizing events. In her free time she’s enjoying all kinds of different activities, like hiking, stand up paddle boarding, yoga and playing ultimate frisbee, to name just a few.

Nicola is originally from Hamburg, Germany. In 2012 she made the decision to explore the world for herself and started her Around-the-world trip. This one-year adventure took her first to Singapore and Australia before she came to New Zealand on a Working Holiday visa and has traveled especially the South Island extensively. After spending 8 months in NZ, climbing on glaciers, bungy jumping, kayaking and exploring the Fiordland (and much more) she continued her travels to Fiji, Hawaii and the Westcoast of the USA.Having lived three years in England she has decided to come back to beautiful New Zealand to explore it some more and help other people get to know this gem of a country as well.

Linda fell in love with travelling when she turned 19 and went to Australia for the first time to work and travel for a year. After coming back to Hamburg, where she grew up, she worked for an Icelandic travel agency for a few years. In her spare time, she continued to travel around Europe, but eventually she felt drawn to this side of the world again and came to New Zealand in 2018. She worked and lived in the Bay of Islands on the North Island for 8 months before exploring the South Island. Nelson is her home of choice, but she still very much enjoys travelling around the country showing other people the beauty of New Zealand whether that is on the North or the South Island. She is very enthusiastic and loves sharing her passion with the students.

Born in the south of New Zealand, Dunedin, Daniel has grown up thick-skinned and immune to the cold. Don’t be surprised when he starts walking around in shorts and bare feet in autumn. Daniel has been all around the south island, and most of the north island, for family holidays and study prior to guiding. He loves getting out to new places, fishing, wakeboarding, snowboarding and playing music. He’s also a bit of a geek having completed a BSc majoring in statistics and working in the office across the road from NZDirect. He also teaches English there and additionally knows a little bit of Te Reo Maori. He likes to introduce some of these Maori words during the tours. Ask him questions about languages, NZ culture and New Zealand in general and he should be able to answer it. With a few years of working with students under his belt, he is happy to guide people through New Zealand and have a bit of fun while doing so.