True Travel Ltd
Vladka Kennett
True Travel Ltd founder and owner
She has completed her Bachelor degree in Tourism Marketing & Mangement in Prague and for several years worked as a specialist in language stays in New Zealand and Australia. In the meantime she travelled through Europe and for a year she left for New Zealand in order to study and travel intensively. As a result she has exchanged the hometown of Karlovy Vary just for New Zealand where she has been living since 2004 and which she has chosen as her new home.
An initiator of the idea to establish True Travel Ltd, she is an active and experienced tour guide within New Zealand and Australia, an enthusiastic photographer who organizes photo exhibitions and lectures, publishes articles about the outdoor and nature of NZ within Czech and New Zealand magazines.
A member of Wakatipu Search & Resue Team with her labrador Jacques she is an operational Avalanche & Wilderness Search & Rescue Dog handler - more on www.wakatipusar.co.nz
She is passionate about outdoors and is a competent horse woman.
Together with her husband Richard she is based in magnificent Glenorchy, where they run a small Bed & Breakfast
Based on her local knowledge and experience from her one-year-engagement as a Supervisor of DOC Regional Visitor Centre in Queenstown, she runs her small guiding company Glenorchy Base Ltd.
A patriot of her Czech hometown Karlovy Vary, totally loves her home in Glenorchy, admires a Czech singer Jarek Nohavica, is addicted to Japanese sushi and the central Otago Pinot Noir...
Martin Sliva
True Travel Ltd founder and owner
After a couple of years working in the sphere of trade, he deserted to travelling within Israel and Palestine in 2000, where he tried his guiding skills for the first time. The following year he dedicated to travelling within New Zealand where he fell in love with tramping in New Zealand pristine nature. In 2002 while back in Czech Republic he launched the first Czech info website dedicated to New Zealand. At the same time he could see the big opportunity in tourism and raising interest of Czech people to visit New Zealand. Luckily he got the only job of a New Zealand specialist available at that time in the whole country. In 2002 he introduced his travelling exhibition of New Zealand (2002-2008) which featured over 100 of his photos and old Maori exhibits from Naprstkovo museum (Some of them were brought to the Czech Republic by Bohumir Gottfried Lindauer, famous New Zealand artist born in Czech Republic). When he met Vladka they both could see the opportunity to fill the gap in the market and decided to move to New Zealand to join forces and establish a travel agency. Meanwhile in 2003 he accomplished his first commercial trip to New Zealand.
He has been living in New Zealand since 2004, fully devoted to developing the travel agency and its concept, which later became known as True Travel jointly run by him and Vladka. He is enthusiastic about getting to know all features of New Zealand and to offer the best experience to their clients, devoted tour organizer and guide and photographer (his photos has been exhibited and sold in the Czech Republic, Israel and New Zealand). In his free time he is helping as a volunteer in conservation projects within Fiordland, relaxes over the photos or while cycling or kayaking, he writes articles about New Zealand history, nature, people... An optimist, fan of Jára Cimrman, a member of Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand, a promoter of good things.
He enjoys the mountains and forests - especially Glenorchy where he used to live, Fiordland, West Coast and Marlborough Sounds in the South Island of New Zealand belong to his favourite places. The ease of nature "recharges his batteries".
Petr Skarka
An external guide of True Travel Ltd, specialises to our fishing/angling trips 
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