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Both states will allow 100 percent capacity at entertainment venues – in New South Wales from Monday and from Wednesday in South Australia. However, masks will be introduced at these venues in South Australia as capacities increase.  In South Australia, as well as increasing capacity at theatres, live performance venues and cinemas, density limits will change to three people per four square metres. In NSW, as stadiums and theatres go back to full capacity, density limits will also be eased for all venues to one […]

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Vaccination passport security is the major new issue facing the travel industry, according to Adam Schrader, Director of Operations at Denmark-based travel risk intelligence company Riskline. Throughout the travel, meetings and events industry worldwide, vaccinations passports and certificates are widely viewed by governments and airlines, as well as travel, meetings and leisure associations as the catalyst to restart their industries and kickstart economies.  An immediate consequence of this development will be a major new issue which will seriously undermine their role unless it is addressed – […]

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Head of the Exhibition and Event Association of Australasia (EEAA), Claudia Sagripanti, has announced the Hon. Stuart Ayres, MP, NSW Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney will join EEAA members at a special event to address skills-related and operational issues affecting the business events industry. The Association’s Skills and Operational Rebuilding Strategies Exchange will be held on March 29 at ICC Sydney. It is free to attend. Read more

After being cancelled due to the pandemic last year, the Canberra Craft Beer & Cider Festival returned to the nation’s capital in a COVIDSafe format last weekend. “This year’s event had support from the ACT Government because it was important to show that Canberra was ideally placed to re-start major festivals,” said Festival Director, Jenny Farrell. Read more

Business Events Australia’s latest research revealed a slight dip in event decision maker confidence but remained remarkably steady, given the border closures and citywide lockdowns which have taken place since the last round of research was completed in early December. The research, completed in late February and early March and released yesterday, is part of a series of surveys charting the evolving attitudes of domestic decision makers towards the restart of business events across Australia as pandemic restrictions ease. Read more

Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre General Manager, Nigel Keen said the centre is on track to host over 80 events and close to 50,000 visitors this month. Among them is AOG Energy. For Diversified Communications Australia, AOG Energy’s organiser, the show was the last one it ran in 2020 and the first one it delivered in 2021. Meanwhile in Brisbane, the National 4×4 Outdoors Show opened last week. Show organiser, ETF Managing Director Kieron Haycock said it had been 18 months since their last event and he was […]

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Independent luxury hotel group Crystalbrook Collection has gone zero-waste in the bathroom amenities department, in what they believe is an Australian first. All their bathroom products are now either recyclable or biodegradable, including a toothbrush and comb made from sugarcane and corn starch. Interestingly, the final step in going waste-free was the inclusion of an organic lining into their packaging, which activates an enzyme that in turn helps with the biodegrading process.

Get Local Expo – the pandemic-prompted domestic spin-off from the organisers of the award-winning Get Global Expo – has announced a major partnership with Destination NSW for the July event. The partnership will see 20 NSW destinations including Hunter Valley, the Central Coast and Orange join the show. “The local domestic industry needs this event and it will go ahead. Get Local is a business events expo and a place to reconnect and do business which we need more than ever in 2021,” said the show’s co-founder […]

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