Spectacular Auckland welcome for business events industry visitors
After a two-year break, more than 500 business events industry buyers and media from Australia and New Zealand were welcomed to
Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, 2 June, for Business Events Industry Aotearoa’s MEETINGS exhibition.
The event opened at Auckland’s ASB Showgrounds with a mihi whakatau on the show floor, led by New Zealander of the Year theatre, film and television actor Jennifer Ward-Lealand CNZM. She gave a moving mihi in te reo Māori, before Ngā Rangatahi O Tamaki – a group of passionate youth selected from a variety of high schools throughout Auckland – who led a karanga, call of welcome, and a powhiri.
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New Zealand’s MEETINGS 2021 to open up to Australian visitors
Over 60 Australian business event organisers are set to arrive in Auckland on 1 June for Business Events Industry Aotearoa’s (formerly CINZ) two-day showcase MEETINGS 2021.
Before and after MEETINGS, hosted buyers from Australia and New Zealand can also choose to join one of five different regional familiarisation tours to Auckland, Rotorua, Wellington, Christchurch, and Queenstown.
As well as 60 hosted buyers and industry media from around Australia, 110 domestic event planners from across New Zealand will also join MEETINGS’ pre-scheduled appointment programme with 145 exhibitors from 18 regions at ASB Showgrounds.
BEIA chief executive Lisa Hopkins says the border opening last month provided much-needed international confidence for planners and organisers, and it is now driving future business opportunities.
Travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand from 19 April welcomed by business events chiefs
Australian and New Zealand residents will be able to travel between the two nations without having to quarantine from 19 April. The announcement, 6 April, of the opening of a travel bubble between the two countries was welcomed by the Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC) and by Business Events Industry Aotearoa (BEIA) in New Zealand.
New Zealand travellers have been allowed to enter most Australian states without quarantine for several months already, though this had not been reciprocated.
ATEC said the bubble would help to re-establish some of Australia’s long term travel relationships and mark the first step in reopening Australia’s export tourism industry to international visitors.