John Anderson (New Zealand businessman, born 1938)

John Duncan Anderson MNZM (born 1938) is a New Zealand businessman, author and celebrity speaker.

[1] The company is now owned by Trafalgar Tours, itself a division of The Travel Corporation Anderson was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1938.

Anderson's parents divorced when he was five years old; he was raised primarily by his mother although maintained a good relationship with his father, a dentist who emigrated to England when he was a child.

[3] In the 2012 New Year Honours, Anderson was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to tourism.

[8] The trip sold quickly, assisted by Anderson meeting prospective fellow travellers and exaggerating his experience of Europe.

Anderson worked out the amount of money that he would need to express the group directly back to England and took the remaining funds to a casino where he gambled on the roulette tables.

When the New Zealand Tourist Board challenged Anderson over his use of the name Tiki Tours he changed the company's name to Contiki, the con coming from The Continent.

Examples included building hotel resorts in Queenstown and in the Great Barrier Reef, and the purchase of Fullers Ferries.

Anderson was living in New Zealand and travelled frequently for directors meetings and to review the company's operations.