AUSTRALASIA – The Western Australian city of Perth has won a bid against Valencia in Spain to host the 19th International Zeolite Conference in 2019.
The International Zeolite Association members voted during their recent conference in Moscow, Russia to hold the 1,000-delegate conference in Perth in 2019 ahead of a strong competing bid from Valencia, Spain.
Paul Beeson, CEO of Perth Convention Bureau said he was “delighted with this win which will place Western Australia in an important position for knowledge sharing between world leading scientific and chemical professionals”.
Perth’s bid, led by the Director of Marketing at Perth Convention Bureau Sue Stepatschuk, and the Curtin Engineering team, headed by the Dean of Engineering Moses Tade, attended the 17th International Zeolite Conference in Moscow in July to present the bid to association members.
Zeolite is a natural occurring mineral that can also be created synthetically and is used in a diverse range of industrial, commercial, rural and domestic applications due to its ability to absorb, hold, release, and exchange different chemicals, nutrients, toxins and ions.
The estimated economic impact for the conference to Western Australia is estimated at AU$4.4m (US$3.7m).
Funded by Tourism WA and the City of Perth, in the financial year 2012/13 the Perth Convention Bureau secured business events that will require more than 200,000 hotel room nights and inject more than $104.7m in delegate expenditure to the Western Australian economy.
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