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More than 1,200 expected at women in sport conference 11th August 2022 /

More than 1,200 expected at women in sport conference

The 8th IWG World Conference on Women in Sport will bring more than 1,200 in-person delegates and 500 speakers to Auckland this November.


Industry heads to Nelson for TECNZ conference, trade expo 9th August 2022 /

Industry heads to Nelson for TECNZ conference, trade expo

More than 260 delegates are expected at the 2022 Tourism Export Council of New Zealand Conference and Tourism Trade Expo beginning in Nelson today.


Maximum Occupancy aims for maximum impact with first major accom event of 2022 22nd July 2022 /

Maximum Occupancy aims for maximum impact with first major accom event of 2022

After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Maximum Occupancy relaunches in New Zealand next week with around 400 delegates expected.


BYATA welcomes Tomahawk support for 2022 conference 22nd July 2022 /

BYATA welcomes Tomahawk support for 2022 conference

The Backpacker Youth Adventure Tourism Association conference has welcomed back Tomahawk as its gold sponsor for its 2022 conference.


Te Pae Christchurch wins large medical congress 15th June 2022 /

Te Pae Christchurch wins large medical congress

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons has chosen Ōtautahi Christchurch for its Annual Scientific Congress to be held in May 2024 at Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre.


Tākina wins digital preservation conference… 14th June 2022 /

Tākina wins digital preservation conference…

Wellington’s Tākina Convention and Exhibition Centre will host the 2025 iPRES 21st International Conference on Digital Presentation.


…while NZICC wins pest conference worth $6.5m 14th June 2022 /

…while NZICC wins pest conference worth $6.5m

The New Zealand International Convention Centre will host around 2,500 pest control experts in 2026.


Registrations open for TECNZ 2022 conference 29th April 2022 /

Registrations open for TECNZ 2022 conference

Tourism Export Council of New Zealand has opened registrations for its annual conference, to be held 9-12 August at The Rutherford Hotel in Nelson.


FCM unveils inaugural Th!nk business travel event 12th April 2022 /

FCM unveils inaugural Th!nk business travel event

Travel management firm FCM has launched the inaugural Th!nk event – a first-of-its-kind hybrid forum for the travel and tourism sector.


Christchurch wins bid for digi-tech conference 6th April 2022 /

Christchurch wins bid for digi-tech conference

Ōtautahi will host the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education annual conference next year.


Te Papa Venues, Tākina combine under one brand 4th April 2022 /

Te Papa Venues, Tākina combine under one brand

Te Papa Venues and Tākina, Wellington’s new convention and exhibition centre opening in mid-2023, has officially beguns operating under one brand, Tākina Events.


Cordis Hotel to host FSC 2022 conference 31st March 2022 /

Cordis Hotel to host FSC 2022 conference

The Financial Services Council has launched its flagship annual conference for 2022.


For business events, red is the new lockdown 28th January 2022 /

For business events, red is the new lockdown

Even sub-100 delegate conferences are cancelling, despite them being allowed at red, says BEIA.


Te Pae Christchurch officially opens 17th December 2021 /

Te Pae Christchurch officially opens

The Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre is holding its opening ceremony today.


Auckland secures 2024 archaeology conference 14th December 2021

Auckland secures 2024 archaeology conference

Auckland has won its bid to host the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference in 2024.


Te Pae secures 2023 international congress 29th November 2021

Te Pae secures 2023 international congress

Christchurch has won a bid to host an international congress in 2023 for the Asia Pacific Seed Association (APSA) at the Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre.


Maximum Occupancy sets new date, mandates vaccination 15th November 2021 /

Maximum Occupancy sets new date, mandates vaccination

The Maximum Occupancy New Zealand event has set a new date of 1-2 March 2022 at the Kiri te Kanawa theatre, Aotea Centre, Auckland.


Auckland wins bid to host games conference 3rd November 2021

Auckland wins bid to host games conference

New Zealand will host the International Teaching Games for Understanding Conference for the first time in 2024.


Auckland wins 2022 engineering conference 30th September 2021

Auckland wins 2022 engineering conference

Auckland has won the bid to host the International Electrical and Electronics Engineers eGrid Conference for the first time in 2022.


Industry converges on Tourism Trade Expo, TECNZ 2021 3rd August 2021 /

Industry converges on Tourism Trade Expo, TECNZ 2021

Nearly 100 tourism suppliers are meeting the country’s inbound tour operators at the inaugural Tourism Trade Expo in Taranaki today.


Maximum Occupancy hotel event returns to NZ 9th July 2021 /

Maximum Occupancy hotel event returns to NZ

The Maximum Occupancy Accommodation Industry Conference will be held at the Aotea Centre in Auckland from 18-19 August.


DQ looks beyond snow lovers, targets Aus business events 15th June 2021 /

DQ looks beyond snow lovers, targets Aus business events

A post-lockdown domestic events strategy played a key role in driving demand within New Zealand but Australia is now the “next big frontier”.


‘We’re back, we’re ready’ – Heaphy on Chch’s business events strategy 10th June 2021

‘We’re back, we’re ready’ – Heaphy on Chch’s business events strategy

ChristchurchNZ is taking a “subject-specific” approach to attracting business events to the city, says Loren Heaphy.


Inaugural IBIS conference kicks off in Queenstown 2nd June 2021

Inaugural IBIS conference kicks off in Queenstown

The inaugural IBIS Customer Conference 2021 opens this evening with a welcome function in Queenstown, focusing on a theme of ‘Rebuilding Together’.


TRENZ “like no other” opens to vastly altered environment 5th May 2021 /

TRENZ “like no other” opens to vastly altered environment

The event at Christchurch Town Hall returns today reshaped after missing 2020.


Trans-Tasman bubble boosts conference bookings, revenue outlook 30th April 2021 /

Trans-Tasman bubble boosts conference bookings, revenue outlook

Hilton Taupo expects revenue to recover to pre-pandemic levels by year-end.


Christchurch wins bid to host international AI conference 12th February 2021 /

Christchurch wins bid to host international AI conference

The conference would attract up to 200 computer science, psychology, robotics and design academics worldwide.


NZ Cruise conference cancelled again – aims for mid-2022 11th February 2021 /

NZ Cruise conference cancelled again – aims for mid-2022

NZCA chair Debbie Summers said the decision was made because of the ongoing impacts of Covid-19 on the industry.


NZICC secures coral conference worth $6m to local economy 12th January 2021 /

NZICC secures coral conference worth $6m to local economy

The 2025 event is expected to attract 2500 delegates to Auckland.


RemoteTogetherNZ festival sets 2021 dates 14th December 2020

RemoteTogetherNZ festival sets 2021 dates

New Zealand’s first ‘future of work’ festival RemoteTogether will be hosted in Queenstown from 8-13 March 2021.


cievents closure sees trio launch new incentives firm 9th December 2020 /

cievents closure sees trio launch new incentives firm

Starting a new business in the middle of the pandemic may be a scary idea to some, but was necessary to deliver what was promised to clients, says the new directors of Motive Events. 


Auckland wins international STEM conference 1st December 2020

Auckland wins international STEM conference

Auckland will host the International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists conference in 2023.


Police conference worth $1.3m to Auckland economy 26th November 2020

Police conference worth $1.3m to Auckland economy

The International Association of Women in Police (IAWP) Annual Conference will bring an estimated $1.3m into the local economy when Auckland plays host in 2023, says Auckland Convention Bureau.


Te Pae Christchurch sets mid-2021 completion 25th November 2020 /

Te Pae Christchurch sets mid-2021 completion

Construction of Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre is on track to be completed mid-2021, with the first events likely to be held in the second half of the year.


Auckland city, hotels win big at MICE awards 19th November 2020 /

Auckland city, hotels win big at MICE awards

Auckland has been named the best meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions destination in Oceania at the inaugural World MICE Awards 2020.


ChristchurchNZ’s Heaphy on a new business events strategy and fund 15th October 2020 /

ChristchurchNZ’s Heaphy on a new business events strategy and fund

A new annual subvention fund will be used to attract global conferences to the city.


Hobbiton unveils new event, conference venues 18th September 2020 /

Hobbiton unveils new event, conference venues

Two new event facilities, The Millhouse and The Hub, have opened at Hobbiton Movie Set.


Auckland secures 2023 police conference 17th September 2020

Auckland secures 2023 police conference

The New Zealand Police will host the International Association of Women Police’s annual conference in 2023.


Queenstown lands 12-day remote working festival 17th September 2020

Queenstown lands 12-day remote working festival

Queenstown will host the new 12-day festival RemoteTogetherNZ festival this November.


TECNZ postpones Spring Symposium 8th September 2020 /

TECNZ postpones Spring Symposium

A new date would be announced this week and all existing registrations would automatically be transferred.


Foran to address Tourism Summit Aotearoa 7th September 2020 /

Foran to address Tourism Summit Aotearoa

Tourism Industry Aotearoa is planning to hold its annual summit on 17 November, with Air New Zealand chief executive Greg Foran lined up as a speaker.


Hilton Auckland to host hybrid hotel industry events 1st September 2020 /

Hilton Auckland to host hybrid hotel industry events

The Hilton Auckland will host a full-day pop-up hotel industry conference as part of this year’s hybrid AHICE and Design Inn 2020 event.


Gatherings ban “catastrophic” for business events – CINZ 25th August 2020 /

Gatherings ban “catastrophic” for business events – CINZ

CINZ’s Lisa Hopkins urges the Govt to distinguish between business events and mass gatherings.


New model proposed to reduce conference carbon footprint by 90% 17th July 2020 /

New model proposed to reduce conference carbon footprint by 90%

Researchers from the University of Otago have outlined new measures that may reduce the carbon footprint of conference and events travel by up to 90%.


Loss of business events hurting region – Venture Taranaki’s Gilliland 14th July 2020 /

Loss of business events hurting region – Venture Taranaki’s Gilliland

Venture Taranaki’s CEO says the region is seeing above-average visitor spend but the lack of business travel is having a severe impact.


TECNZ launches ‘Spring’ Symposium 14th July 2020 /

TECNZ launches ‘Spring’ Symposium

The Tourism Export Council of New Zealand has moved its annual Xmas Symposium in December to a new ‘Spring’ Symposium in September.


Heritage Hotels, HQ New Zealand partner in conference package 14th July 2020 /

Heritage Hotels, HQ New Zealand partner in conference package

Heritage Queenstown has partnered with local professional event company HQ New Zealand to attract conferences to the resort.


TIA cancels NZ Tourism Awards, shifts Summit to Wgtn 29th June 2020 /

TIA cancels NZ Tourism Awards, shifts Summit to Wgtn

Tourism Industry Aotearoa has cancelled this year’s New Zealand Tourism Awards because of the Covid-19 crisis.


Te Pae to benefit from NZICC delay to mid-2023 22nd June 2020 /

Te Pae to benefit from NZICC delay to mid-2023

Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre looks set to be the biggest beneficiary of the New Zealand International Convention Centre’s delivery delay to mid-2023.


Queenstown hotel welcomes first Covid era conference 19th June 2020 /

Queenstown hotel welcomes first Covid era conference

Crowne Plaza Queenstown has welcomed its first Covid era conference, ahead of schedule.