Helloworld Travel has more than 600 employees and more than 2,050 members across Australia and New Zealand.
The 2025 Owner Manager Conference (OMC) from Helloworld has just wrapped up in Vancouver, Canada, with 500 attendees. Cairns was announced as the next conference destination on the final day of the Vancouver conference.
“We are delighted to be taking our 2026 OMC to Cairns,” said Helloworld Travel CEO Andrew Burnes AO.
“As we all know, Queensland is a highly popular travel region for all of Australia, New Zealand and around the world, and we are very pleased to be supporting this region, and tourism in the state.”
“Personally, we have a strong connection with Cairns, dating back to the late 1980s when we started AOT, then the Australian Outback Travel Company, as a safari company running tours out of Cairns to Cape York.
“We spent 10 years in Cairns setting up and growing the AOT business. Now, almost 40 years later we are heading back to where it all began.”
“As always, we will put together an amazing program for the OMC and we know our agents will thoroughly enjoy Cairns and all it has to offer.”
The conference is coming to Cairns with support from the state’s tourism agency, Tourism and Events Queensland (TEQ).
Craig Davidson, TEQ’s CEO, said the agency was thrilled to see the conference headed for Cairns.
“Showcasing tourism in Tropical North Queensland, we will be inviting everyone to experience ‘That Holiday Feeling’ to keep Queensland top of mind when it comes to planning that next trip,” he said.
“Because no one does holidays quite like we do.”
The conference will held June 11 to 14, 2026.
