Australasia

Business Events Adelaide celebrates 20 years of Destination SA with hosted programme

Destination SA, the annual business events showcase organised by Business Events Adelaide, in Australia, is celebrating its 20th year in 2024. From 18 March, 39 top business event decision makers and industry media will join a fully hosted programme demonstrating the very best of South Australian ingenuity and hospitality. Guests will enjoy activities including hotel site visits, tours of Adelaide...

Radisson Hotel Group to offer new ‘unbounded’ meeting vision with AI-powered Dream Machine

Radisson Hotel Group has unveiled a new value proposition Radisson Meetings Unbound and its AI-powered Radisson Meetings Dream Machine. Using a customised generative AI tool, the Radisson Meetings Dream Machine enables event professionals to go beyond the conventional boundaries, from conceptualisation to visualisation, using the platform to create visually stunning representations of their of dre...

Amsterdam and New York most visited cities for European business travellers, says new BCD report

Amsterdam and New York are the most visited cities for European business travellers. According to BCD Travel’s Cities & Trends Europe 2023 edition, The most popular countries are Germany and the United States. The report is based on BCD flight and car rental data in 2023 in a range of European markets. Top 10 business travel cities Overall, business travel spend in Europe in 2023 has recovered...

Amora Hotels & Resorts unveils five-star property in Brisbane following $20m transformation

Brisbane, Australia, has welcomed a newly transformed five-star hotel, following a US$20m refurbishment of the property in the CBD. Amora Brisbane is a 296-key hotel and debuts in a city that says it has a packed programme of global events in its MICE calendar for the year – and in the years to come. This US$$20m transformation is the latest property opening by Thai-owned Amora Group, following th...

Zadro Agency wins pitch to secure IAPCO advocacy project

Sydney-based Zadro Agency has won a global competitive pitch to lead on the International Association of Professional Congress Organisers (IAPCO)’s advocacy campaign. IAPCO provides the only international accreditation for professional conference organisers and has members in 45 countries. Felicity Zadro, founder and managing director, Zadro Agency, attended the 54th IAPCO Annual Meeting and Gener...

VOK DAMS Digitalisation Index: How digital is your event marketing?

International event and live marketing agency VOK DAMS is offering companies worldwide he opportunity to assess their current digital maturity in event marketing for free via the agency’s own Digitalisation Index. The Index uses defined dimensions to determine to what extent a company has progressed in the digitalisation of event marketing. Companies receive an objective overview of their current ...

Aussie tech company streamlines high-level security protocols for ASEAN-Australia Summit

Australian tech company EventsAir provided the highest level of accreditation and access control to assist streamlining security at the recent ASEAN-Australia Summit in Melbourne for the 12 heads of state and the thousands of support staff and participants of the three-day meeting, 4-6 March. Prime minister Anthony Albanese’s hosting of leaders from Lao PDR, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia,...

How to shake it up on stage for maximum effect

Paul Colston talks to international broadcaster, presenter, events host and MC, Paul Coia, who imparts a wealth of stories, experience and tips for public speaking.   How did you first get involved in the corporate events world? Was it a natural step from your TV and radio work and how are those skills transferable? I was presenting the Holiday Show on BBC1 in the UK and Thomas Cook asked if ...

Auckland wins World Dairy Summit

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland will host the International Dairy Federation’s (IDF) World Dairy Summit in 2026. The conference is anticipated to attract over 1,000 industry leaders and scientific experts to the New Zealand International Convention Centre (NZICC). The summit is the flagship event for the 120-year-old Federation, which spans 40 member countries, representing over 75% of the world’s milk p...

On International Women’s Day, Lyn Lewis-Smith discusses women in leadership

The CEO of BESydney, Lyn Lewis-Smith, talks to CMW about the recent report commissioned by the bureau, jointly with the PCMA Foundation and released at Convening Leaders 2024 in San Diego, Advancing Women in Business Events: What was the objective of producing this research and what were its findings? There has always been a focus on women in leadership. I’ve been a huge advocate of enabling...

Tropical North Queensland resilience attracts business events

The resilience of Australia’s Tropical North Queensland after record flooding in December has inspired many corporations planning incentive events for international destinations this year to move their business to Cairns. Tourism Tropical North Queensland general manager of partnerships and events Tara Bennett reports that Cairns has been identified by planners as a destination aligned to the corp...

Melbourne boosts credit rating by hosting finance and innovation conference in April

The Asia Pacific Financial and Innovation Symposium will be held in Melbourne, Australia, this April thanks to support from Victoria’s Allan Labor government. Minister for economic growth Tim Pallas announced the inaugural global financial conference will be hosted in the city at The Palladium Crown, demonstrating that Victoria is a hub for financial services and business events. “Events like this...