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Australia’s business events industry will have a new association from July 3 as multiple industry bodies unite in an attempt to give Australian business events stakeholders a single voice and an entity to deliver services to the industry as a whole.
What Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese yesterday referred to as the most significant political meeting to be hosted in Australia in almost a decade has been cancelled, after US President Joe Biden postponed his trip to Australia to prevent what could become an economic crisis in the US.
There were some big numbers in the budget to support events, but it’s all going towards public events.
Air New Zealand will spend NZ$3.5 billion on fleet investment, including purchasing 13 new aircraft and refitting another 14 already in service.
Hotels in Australia and New Zealand had the highest occupancy in the region for January to March this year, according to the latest data from Amadeus’ Demand360 data solution, while China’s hotel occupancy was already above pre-pandemic levels, with 2023 figures outstripping 2019 figures by three percent for the same three-month period.
Sydney will host the World Endometriosis Society Congress in 2025, with more than 1,000 delegates expected to attend, generating $3.9 million in direct expenditure for the New South Wales economy.
