11th August 2022 Aotea Centre / Conferences
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.
More than 260 delegates are expected at the 2022 Tourism Export Council of New Zealand Conference and Tourism Trade Expo beginning in Nelson today.
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Maximum Occupancy relaunches in New Zealand next week with around 400 delegates expected.
The Backpacker Youth Adventure Tourism Association conference has welcomed back Tomahawk as its gold sponsor for its 2022 conference.
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.
Wellington’s Tākina Convention and Exhibition Centre will host the 2025 iPRES 21st International Conference on Digital Presentation.
The New Zealand International Convention Centre will host around 2,500 pest control experts in 2026.
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.
Travel management firm FCM has launched the inaugural Th!nk event – a first-of-its-kind hybrid forum for the travel and tourism sector.
Ōtautahi will host the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education annual conference next year.
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.
The Financial Services Council has launched its flagship annual conference for 2022.
Even sub-100 delegate conferences are cancelling, despite them being allowed at red, says BEIA.
The Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre is holding its opening ceremony today.
Auckland has won its bid to host the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference in 2024.
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.
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.
New Zealand will host the International Teaching Games for Understanding Conference for the first time in 2024.
Auckland has won the bid to host the International Electrical and Electronics Engineers eGrid Conference for the first time in 2022.
Nearly 100 tourism suppliers are meeting the country’s inbound tour operators at the inaugural Tourism Trade Expo in Taranaki today.
The Maximum Occupancy Accommodation Industry Conference will be held at the Aotea Centre in Auckland from 18-19 August.
A post-lockdown domestic events strategy played a key role in driving demand within New Zealand but Australia is now the “next big frontier”.
ChristchurchNZ is taking a “subject-specific” approach to attracting business events to the city, says Loren Heaphy.
The inaugural IBIS Customer Conference 2021 opens this evening with a welcome function in Queenstown, focusing on a theme of ‘Rebuilding Together’.
The event at Christchurch Town Hall returns today reshaped after missing 2020.
Hilton Taupo expects revenue to recover to pre-pandemic levels by year-end.
The conference would attract up to 200 computer science, psychology, robotics and design academics worldwide.
NZCA chair Debbie Summers said the decision was made because of the ongoing impacts of Covid-19 on the industry.
The 2025 event is expected to attract 2500 delegates to Auckland.
New Zealand’s first ‘future of work’ festival RemoteTogether will be hosted in Queenstown from 8-13 March 2021.
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 will host the International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists conference in 2023.
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.
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 has been named the best meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions destination in Oceania at the inaugural World MICE Awards 2020.
A new annual subvention fund will be used to attract global conferences to the city.
Two new event facilities, The Millhouse and The Hub, have opened at Hobbiton Movie Set.
The New Zealand Police will host the International Association of Women Police’s annual conference in 2023.
Queenstown will host the new 12-day festival RemoteTogetherNZ festival this November.
A new date would be announced this week and all existing registrations would automatically be transferred.
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.
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.
CINZ’s Lisa Hopkins urges the Govt to distinguish between business events and mass gatherings.
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%.
Venture Taranaki’s CEO says the region is seeing above-average visitor spend but the lack of business travel is having a severe impact.
The Tourism Export Council of New Zealand has moved its annual Xmas Symposium in December to a new ‘Spring’ Symposium in September.
Heritage Queenstown has partnered with local professional event company HQ New Zealand to attract conferences to the resort.
Tourism Industry Aotearoa has cancelled this year’s New Zealand Tourism Awards because of the Covid-19 crisis.
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.
Crowne Plaza Queenstown has welcomed its first Covid era conference, ahead of schedule.