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Experience The staff at Orba Travel Brokers has over 150yrs experience in
the travel industry! Founded in 1990 by present Managing Director, Richard van
Kempen, Orba Travel Brokers quickly established itself amongst its peers as
an Agency specialising in business and Corporate travel. In the 20 years
since, Orba Travel Brokers has become Platinum Partners or Top Tier Agents with
many of the world’s leading airlines and travel providers, including QANTAS,
Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, Emirates Airlines, American Express and
many others. Staff
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Richard van
Kempen Richard, our Managing Director, has been in the industry for
over 20 years, and established Orba Travel Brokers on July 1, 1990 with a
view to becoming one of Western Australia’s premier corporate travel agents.
He has a firm belief in working truly collaboratively with both our customers
and our suppliers. Richard is widely travelled but his favourite experience was to
be had in the game parks in South Africa where one evening at dusk he was in
a vehicle which pulled up underneath a tree. Looking up, Richard was
astonished to see his first leopard in the wild, sitting on a branch just
over his head – a truly memorable moment. Richard is also a member of the Australian Society of Certified
Practicing Accountants, and as such has a true understanding of what it takes to make a business not only tick,
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Lee Forster Lee has been in the travel industry
since 1974, initially with the UK’s largest Tour Operator Thomson’s Holidays,
in London and Greece. Lee then moved into the retail travel sector where she
spent 6 years, before finally settling in Perth, where for the past 21 years
she has worked exclusively in the Corporate world enjoying every minute. Lee
joined Orba in 1996 and is Office Manager. Lee says "The current world wide business
environment may mean that some of the smaller operators and low cost carriers
may fall by the wayside. We have a strong client base and provide a professional
service that is key to maintaining and welcoming new business to the Orba way
of safe and competitive travel. "I was pleased to have been a Finalist in the AFTA
AWARDS for EXCELLENCE as BEST CORPORATE CONSULTANT, which shows that Orba has
an approach that the industry respects." During her time in the industry Lee
has travelled extensively, using her experiences with a tourist eye for
detail and taking into account the business travellers needs for that all
important Business meeting. Some of the locations she has experienced are UK,
USA, Tahiti, Bora Bora, Cook Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong,
China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Mauritius, Maldives,
Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, the Canary Islands, Greece, Malta, Macau, Italy,
France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Yugoslavia. Lee is looking to expand this list
even further covering the A to Z of the world. "Every trip is a unique
experience", her favourite being in the cockpit of a jet as it landed at
JFK, followed by sailing across the Atlantic on the QE2. Lee enjoys all forms
of travel "smooth and on time is best and something we always plan for,
the unexpected is just managed differently". |
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Karen Hawkins Touchstone Karen is one of the latest
additions to the Account Management
team at Orba Travel Brokers. Karen’s husband had a job transfer from Queensland to Western
Australia early in 2011 and, to our delight, Karen followed! Karen has had many years’ experience in the
Corporate travel arena, and brings with her a wealth of knowledge and
experience. Widely travelled, Karen enjoyed a short break in New Zealand
just after joining us at Orba Travel Brokers, and has returned freshened and
ready to go. |
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Naomi Cobain Naomi has been in the industry since
2005 and commenced her journey in travel because she genuinely enjoys
learning about other destinations. Already Naomi has been to Europe (UK,
France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland & Austria), Singapore
& parts of Australia (Melbourne, Gold Coast, Broome & Port Hedland) France and Switzerland are Naomi’s
particular favourites – she “loves the history of France & the beauty of Switzerland”…
and had never seen the snow before so particularly loved that! Naomi travelled to the United States
and Cancun in 2011. |
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June
Siddique June joined Kings Travel in Adelaide
in 1965 which at the time was one of the largest privately owned agents in
Australia. Progressing through the ranks, June, eventually joined the Sales
Promotion Department which involved selected staff members escorting Kings
own Tour programmes, which were marketed as Harlequin Holidays
and Women’s Weekly World Tours. During the period 1968-1970 she even
co-hosted a weekly TV travel programme on SAS 10 Adelaide which was ‘live to
air’ on Wednesday afternoon and replayed Sunday morning. Each week a
different destination was presented with native guests of the country or
Industry members show-casing the various tourist facets. On one such tour, whilst escorting a
group of 30 clients through Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong,
June met husband who was Inflight Manager with Air India and subsequently
married in 1970 and moved to India where they lived – between postings – for
a period of 5 years. As part of an overseas posting, June
lived in Beirut for a period of 9 months in 1972, working for a short time
with MEA (Middle East Airlines) at Beirut airport. June returned in
1975 to live in Western Australia, and for the past 30 + years has enjoyed
working in and managing various Travel Agencies in Perth. Some of the destinations where June
has travelled and spent time include the UK, Europe, Syria, Jordan, Egypt,
Lebanon, Kuwait, USA, Canada, Fiji, Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand,
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Borneo, China, Hong Kong,
Japan, Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and others In spite of a horrifying hijacking
and bombing experience, the one place which impacted on June and will always
remembered is Beirut – the Paris of the East. June is of the opinion that the ethos
of the Travel Industry will in the not too distant future be restored - once
‘smart travellers’ realise there is no substitute for good old fashioned
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Tony
Griffin Tony was born in Africa (Northern
Rhodesia) and educated in He has worked in the Industry since
1974 having worked both for Ansett Airlines & Qantas, and later as a
Travel Agent in both the retail market and later in Corporate Travel, which
is now his particular field of expertise. He loves solving problems and
offering travel solutions to our clients whilst ensuring a very high level of
customer service, attention to detail and also offering cost effective
savings to all Clients. Above all, he is very passionate
about his career in travel and is thrilled to be able to share his knowledge
and experience to all our Team members and acting as a mentor and to be a
motivated team member. Tony has travelled extensively
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Rod Davies Rod started in the industry in 1973 and has worked in a variety
of retail, group, corporate and IT areas within the business. Rod enjoys all facets of travel, but does have a soft spot for
the Corporate field as it’s this field that is, firstly, the most challenging
and secondly the most rewarding. And, it’s the IT area of travel that is his particular love.
Searching out better ways of achieving a result for the Agency and therefore
the Agency staff and our customers is what he hopes to achieve at Orba. Rod has travelled throughout Europe, Asia and the US and Canada,
and admits to having seen little of Australia…”I’ll see Oz when I retire –
whilst I am fit and well enough to sit in planes for long periods at a time –
I will”! Heike Elzohdy Heike has been with Orba Travel Brokers for over a decade and
maintains and updates our Accounts department. Heike is in constant contact will all our Accounts, and is both happy
and available to assist with any queries on your Account.
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