BIG4 Bendigo Ascot Holiday Park is set to celebrate after winning two prestigious prizes at the 2022 BIG4 Annual Awards. The Victorian Park picked up the Des and Margaret Watts Supreme Award for Excellence as well as the Alan and Gloria Rowett Award for BIG4 Perks+ Highest Weighted Sales Award.
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Held in person for the first time in three years, the BIG4 Holiday Park Annual Awards were hosted on the Sunshine Coast, with attendees able to come together after a difficult couple of years.
MC Giaan Rooney presented 13 awards in all, rewarding holiday parks in each of BIG4’s three categories – Classic, Holiday and Premier – as well as an overall national winner for each category, plus staff member of the year awards.
BIG4 Holiday Parks Australia CEO, Sean Jenner said the awards acknowledged the amazing efforts of the owners, managers and staff in the BIG4 network to bounce back after a few very challenging years.
“The last couple of years have been like no other, but we’ve made it back together to celebrate our achievements in making it through the challenges,” he said.
“Our park owners have continued to be extremely resilient not only through the entire COVID-19 pandemic, but also through a number of natural disasters, and have still come out with some incredible results.
“It is great to have this opportunity to celebrate our successes in person for the first time in many years. We have descriptor winners from all over the country, so to bring these exceptional people together and celebrate those achievements in the same room is something we don’t take for granted.
“Amongst a list of deserving winners, it’s worth noting that BIG4 Anglesea Holiday Park won the Online Highest Weighted Sales Award for the eighth year running, which is no mean feat in such a competitive environment.
“They’ve been able to celebrate the win with other successful Great Ocean Road parks BIG4 Aireys Inlet and BIG4 Apollo Bay Pisces Holiday Park who took out BIG4 Engagement Award and BIG4 Member Bookings Highest Weighted Sales Award respectively.
“We are so happy to join together to reward the remarkable efforts of all of our teams across the country.”
BIG4 Holiday Parks has over 180 parks Australia wide, and each offers unique accommodation offers and experiences to suite every traveller’s needs.
The full list of winners follows:
Des & Margaret Watts: Supreme Award for Excellence
Winners
Classic: BIG4 Aireys Inlet, VIC
Holiday: BIG4 Bendigo Ascot Holiday Park, VIC
Premier: BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort, QLD
National winner
BIG4 Bendigo Ascot Holiday Park, VIC
Alan and Gloria Rowett BIG4 Perks+ Highest Weighted Sales Award
Winners
Classic: BIG4 Stuart Range Outback Resort, SA
Holiday: BIG4 Bendigo Ascot Holiday Park, VIC
Premier: BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort, QLD
National winner
BIG4 Bendigo Ascot Holiday Park, VIC
Alan and Gloria Rowett BIG4 Perks+ Highest Sales Award
Winners
Classic: BIG4 Paradise Tamworth, NSW
Holiday: BIG4 West Beach Parks, SA
Premier: BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort, QLD
National winner
BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort, QLD
BIG4 Member Bookings Highest Weighted Sales Award
Winners
Classic: BIG4 Aireys Inlet. VIC
Holiday: BIG4 Apollo Bay Pisces Holiday Park, VIC
Premier: BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort, QLD
National winner
BIG4 Apollo Bay Pisces Holiday Park, VIC
BIG4 Online Highest Weighted Sales Award
Winners
Classic: BIG4 Aireys Inlet, VIC
Holiday: BIG4 Anglesea Holiday Park, VIC
Premier: BIG4 Denmark Ocean Beach Holiday Park, WA
Overall winner
BIG4 Anglesea Holiday Park, VIC
BIG4 Online Highest Sales Award
Winners
Classic: BIG4 Breeze Holiday Parks – Rainbow Beach, QLD
Holiday: BIG4 Bellarine Holiday Park, VIC
Premier: BIG4 Gold Coast Holiday Park, QLD
Overall winner
BIG4 Gold Coast Holiday Park, QLD
BIG4 Online Highest Revenue Growth Award
Winners
Classic: BIG4 Breeze Holiday Parks – Rainbow Beach, QLD
Holiday: BIG4 Anglesea Holiday Park, VIC
Premier: BIG4 Sandstone Point Holiday Resort, QLD
Overall winner
BIG4 Sandstone Point Holiday Resort, QLD
BIG4 Engagement Award
Winners
Classic: BIG4 Aireys Inlet, VIC
Holiday: BIG4 Castlemaine Gardens Holiday Park, VIC
Premier: BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort, QLD
Overall winner
BIG4 Aireys Inlet, VIC
BIG4 Park Staff Member of the Year
Finalists
Jacqui Everson: BIG4 Sandstone Point Holiday Resort, QLD
Jeremy Woolman: BIG4 Warrnambool Figtree Holiday Park, VIC
Jodi Contarino: BIG4 Ingenia Holidays Townsville, QLD
Kathleen Miller: BIG4 Port Fairy Holiday Park, VIC
Scott & Donna Hassan: BIG4 Warrnambool Figtree Holiday Park, VIC
Sue Rowe: BIG4 Gold Coast Holiday Park, QLD
Overall winner
Sue Rowe: BIG4 Gold Coast Holiday Park, QLD
BIG4 Park Staff Young Achiever Award
Finalists
Samuel Obst: BIG4 Loxton Riverfront Holiday Park, SA
Hannah Spooner: BIG4 Aireys Inlet, VIC
Piper Milton: BIG4 Breeze Holiday Park – Bargara, QLD
Rod Mugleston: BIG4 Bendigo Ascot Park, VIC
Overall winner
Rod Mugleston: BIG4 Bendigo Ascot Park, VIC
Maree Fox George: BIG4 NSO Staff Member of the Year Award
Winner Dean Salvestrin
Life Member Awards:
Winners (not a winner – inductee)
Phillip & Dianne East
Robert & Judith East
People’s Choice Award
Winners
Classic: BIG4 Blanchetown Riverside Holiday Park, SA
Holiday: BIG4 Great Lakes at Foster-Tuncurry, NSW
Premier: BIG4 Sandstone Point Holiday Resort, QLD
Overall winner
BIG4 Great Lakes at Foster-Tuncurry, NSW (now NRMA Forster Tuncurry)
People’s Choice Award – Most Improved
Winners
Classic: BIG4 Mudgee Holiday Park, NSW
Holiday: BIG4 Porepunkah Holiday Park, VIC
Premier: BIG4 Sandstone Point Holiday Resort, QLD
Overall winner
BIG4 Porepunkah Holiday Park
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