Impossible to replicate. Impossible to forget.

Marvel designs and delivers bespoke corporate programmes for New Zealand’s most discerning organisations – client entertainment, incentive travel, leadership retreats, and milestone experiences built on access, discretion, and craft that cannot be replicated.

Every programme is designed and delivered personally by our founders, Mike Watkins and Scott Wallace, from first conversation to last guest home. Not delegated. Not templated

Marvel is a New Zealand corporate events agency that designs and delivers bespoke corporate programmes built around New Zealand’s landscapes, culture, and people: incentive travel, client entertainment, leadership retreats, team events, and milestone celebrations.

Every programme is different. Everyone is run personally by Mike and Scott, from the first conversation until the last guest’s home.

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What Are Corporate Experiences?

A corporate experience is not a venue, a keynote and a gala dinner assembled from a standard rate card. It is a programme designed from zero around your people, your objectives, and access to New Zealand that most visitors never reach – private stations, remote lodges, and relationships built over decades, not booked through a supplier list.

Done well, a corporate experience does more than meet a hospitality brief. It changes something within the group: relationships deepen, teams reconnect, and people who have worked together for years discover something new about one another.

That is the standard every Marvel programme is designed to meet.

Who Corporate Experiences Are Designed For

Marvel works with organisations that have decided the standard formula no longer serves them,

and need a team capable of delivering something genuinely better.

Client Entertainment & Hospitality

Your most valuable client relationships deserve more than a restaurant booking. Marvel designs and delivers client entertainment programmes built on private access and considered hosting - the kind of day, or weekend, that is still being referenced years later.

Incentive Travel & Reward Programmes

For the people who have driven the results and earned something remarkable. Marvel designs incentive travel and reward programmes across New Zealand built entirely around your top performers - never a package tour with a company name attached.

Leadership Retreats & Off-sites

When the agenda matters as much as the setting, Marvel designs leadership retreats and executive off-sites that balance serious strategic work with an environment built to change how people think - away from the office, and into some of New Zealand's most extraordinary places.

Internal Team Experiences

Marvel designs internal team experiences that reconnect people and reward effort in ways a workshop cannot. Genuine shared experiences - the kind still being talked about two years later.

How We Work

Brief, Concept & Design

No templates. No off-the-shelf itineraries. Every programme begins with a proper brief, and is designed from zero around your audience and the outcomes you are trying to create.

Planning, Logistics & Coordination<

The part most clients never see is the part that determines whether the experience works. Our logistics and delivery operations cover every moving part, so nothing is left to chance.

On-the-Ground Delivery

The people who designed your programme are the same people on the ground delivering it, managing every detail through our event management capability.

The Finishing Details

Local knowledge, precise timing, and the small moments that feel spontaneous but were not - the difference between a good experience and one guests are still discussing two years later.

Experiences We've Delivered

Every experience below is drawn from work we have delivered. In keeping with the standard our clients expect, we do not publish client names or images from private engagements.

Gourmet Hands-On Hangi

Forty-five minutes from Auckland's CBD and a world away from the boardroom. Guests arrive by quad bike to a forest clearing, prepare their own gourmet hangi, eye fillet, crayfish, chicken breast, get it in the pits, and head back out on the bikes while it cooks. Two hours later, they eat what they made, in the middle of a forest, with nowhere else they'd rather be.

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Explore the Gulf

Auckland's Hauraki Gulf from the air, on the water, and over a long lunch, in a single day. Helicopter to Kawau Island, lunch at a coastal restaurant-lodge most Aucklanders have never visited, a guided paddleboard tour, then a yacht back to the city. The return trip alone is worth the day.

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Northern Escape

New Zealand's northernmost tip, by helicopter, on horseback, and under a sky where two oceans meet, across two days that most visitors never find. Cape Reinga at sunset, an evening at Kauri Cliffs, and a morning on 90 Mile Beach. An experience that feels genuinely unreachable, until it isn't.

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Why Choose Marvel for Corporate Experiences

Because the people who design your programme are the same people who deliver it. No handoffs to a junior team. No suppliers who have never met your guests.

Marvel brings genuine New Zealand relationships – the places, the people, and the access that no generalist agency can replicate – combined with the operational rigour to ensure every element performs on the day.

We work with organisations that hold high expectations, from intimate groups to large-scale programmes. If the experience matters, the detail matters. That is the standard every Marvel programme is built to meet.

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