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14th April 2016

Editor: Bruce Piperinfo@businesseventsnews.com.auwww.businesseventsnews.com.au

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Today’s issue ofBEN

Business Events News 

today has two pages of news,

plus a full page from AA

Appointments.

HERE’S a reason to y up thefront - as if you needed one.

A report released overnight inthe UK has found that it is moreexpensive (per mile) to travel onthe London Underground than totravel rst class from London toNew York.

It’s part of a statement from

Sadiq Khan, a candidate forthe current London mayoralcampaign.

Khan said the Virgin Atlanticroundtrip ticket from Londonto JFK costs about £2200 whichequates to 22 pence per mile.

By contrast a trip on thePiccadilly Line from SouthKensington to London HeathrowTerminal 3 costs £10.10 or 43p permile - almost twice as much.

Khan’s campaign includes apledge to freeze all Tube faresfor four years - in contrast toa proposed 17% hike by hisopponent which he said meant“a Tube journey could end upcosting more per mile than takinga private jet around the world”.

crumbs!

DMS going greenDMS Desnaon Management

Services has announced Moloney

& Kelly as its new partner in

reland, providing an opportunity

or “Irish charm and lyrical

eprechauns to truly incenvise

and take delegates on a magical

ourney”.

Moloney & Kelly is the country’s

argest privately owned DMC,

pecialising in incenve and

eisure travel for 45 years.

As part of the launch of the

new partnership Moloney & Kelly

have prepared a “show stopping

ncenve program” including

Dingle Peninsula, Dingle Town,

Kate Kearney’s Coage Pub and

ravel to Lahinch on the coast of

West Clare.

The sample program, along

with indicave costs for 70 pax

or 2017/18 is now available

on the DMS website at

desnaonmarkeng.com.au.

Vivid event packagesPACKAGES and opons for the

upcoming Vivid Sydney (27 May-

18 Jun) are starng to pop up.

The Australian Naonal

Marime Museum is oering

packages on new venue, The

Lookout, and onboard HMASVampire from $45 per person.

Catering is included with a

choice of six plaers, a one- or

two-hour beverage package,

cocktail furniture and event and

security sta are available on

certain days.

Fort Denison Restaurant is

also oering weeknight dining

packages for groups between 40

and 140 people during the fesval

of lights.

The three-hour experience ispriced from $150pp and includes

a three-course meal, a beverage

package and a mini tour of the

Martello Tower and Naonal

Park.

Luna Park upgradesLUNA Park has spent $100,000

upgrading its audio-visual systems

across a number of its venues,

including the Crystal Ballroom,

the Ted Hopkins Room and the

Sunset Room.

Four Points’ AV apptFOUR Points by Sheraton

Sydney, Darling Harbour has

appointed Staging Connecons

as the hotel’s onsite audio visual

(AV) and event services provider.The hotel is set to unveil its

waterfront convenon centre on

01 Jun, 2016.

AACB delivers new reportTHE Associaon ofAustralian Convenon

Bureaux has today

handed over what’s

being described as the

“most comprehensive

audit of future business

events aracted

to Australia ever

produced”.

AACB ceo Andrew

Heibl (pictured)

presented the AACBForward Calendar

report to the

Parliament in Canberra, with key

ndings including that 30% of

forward internaonal business

events are in the medical sector,

with an esmated 90,000

delegates.

Other sectors by percentage

of events included professional,

scienc and technical services

(17.9%), informaon media and

telecommunicaons (9.8%),administrave and support

services (8.4%), manufacturing

(7.1%), arts and recreaon

services (3.7%), nancial and

insurance services (3.7%) and

retail trade (3%).

Interesngly more than half

of the associaon meengs and

convenons include a trade

exhibion component.

“Business events are unique in

that they are the only tourism

sector that provides a vision ofconrmed future business,”

Heibl said.

“The report provides an

unparalleled forward vision of

meengs, incenves, convenons

and exhibions won by our

members.

“This intelligence can be

used by governments and their

departments to maximise the

beyond tourism benets that

these events oer,” he added.

A total of 296 business events

are conrmed for Australia

through to 2024, aracng a

total of almost 250,000 delegates

translang to more than one

million delegate days.

That will generate more than

$663 million in direct delegateexpenditure - 66% of it from

internaonal visitors.

Heibl said the Forward Calendar

report was the result of an

“unprecedented data sharing

exercise” between the naon’s

convenon bureaux.

AACB is calling on the federal

government to commit to a bid

fund to help secure even more

internaonal business events for

Australia.

“Such an investment bygovernment would directly target

industry growth and jobs of the

future,” he said.

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If you arelooking for anMC for your nextconference or aspeaker/traineron presentationskills or pitchingskills, email andrew@lunch.com.au or visit his website atwww.andrewklein.com.au.

Andrew Klein, professional MC and presentationskills speaker and director of SPIKE Presentations, presents his front

line observations on conferences in a regular feature in BEN .

Taking the Piss out of ConferencingIN THIS age of technological advancement,

video-conferencing, Apps and social media,

I’m often asked my thoughts on the future

of the conference industry.

“What is the value in ying hundreds

of people to a conference destination,

accommodating and feeding them - and placing them in a room to listen

to presentations when we could just as easily use video-conferencing or

place the presentation on YouTube, where people could experience it all in

the no-cost comfort of their oces and homes?”

Put simply, do we need to bring everyone together to one place when we

can, using relatively inexpensive technology, do it all remotely?

That question and the real value of conferences was answered for me

quite succinctly last week at the urinal of a Gold Coast Convention Centre

toilet. Stay with me here, this is all above board.

I was one of 3 blokes standing next to each other at the urinal, all

simultaneously looking straight-ahead at a blank toilet room wall, as we

do. The guy at the end, let’s call him Wee 1, asks the guy next to him (Wee

2) whether Wee 2 has found any value in the company’s new ‘Mobile Me’

App which had been the subject of the previous presentation. In the short

time we stood together, it became clear that Wee 1 was sceptical while

Wee 2 was a huge fan of Mobile Me and was evangelical in his attempts to

convince Wee 1 to persist as it would denitely help his business.

As our meeting moved from the urinal to the hand-dryer units, it became

clear that Wee 1 (from Bunbury) and Wee 2 (from Dubbo) did not know

each other, they introduced themselves and shook their now germ-free

hands and I then observed them continue their animated Mobile Meconversation, as they joined the lunch buet queue.

As a Conference MC and trainer, I am focussed on ensuring that what goes

on inside the conference room is as engaging and educational as possible.

But it is outside the conference room where the true value and benet of a

conference happens.

The networking, the informal learning between delegates, the ability of

one delegate to “teach” a colleague some tips and tricks and the fact that

people like Wees 1 and 2 may now bounce ideas o each other moving

forward. This invaluable, informal learning opportunity simply could not

take place as eectively via video or online. Even in advanced 2016, an

online company chat forum or discussion App is nowhere near as eective

as a face to face old-style screen-less conversation.

I hope I’m not pissing into the wind(pun intended) preaching to the

converted BEN bunch, but to anyone

doubting whether it’s worth the

trouble and expense of staging the

group conference again next year, or

claiming that conferences are just one

big piss-up (pun again intended) take

my advice and go and loiter in the

Convention Centre toilets (for research

purposes) and listen to the stream of

conversation (painful pun intended).

Confessions of a compulsiveconference-goer

Buyers explore the Nth Island

A GROUP of buyers

experienced some of the

Hamilton and Waikato treasures

on a pre-Convene 2016 famil.

Parcipants checked out

Zealong Tea Estate, Hampton

Downs Motosport Park and

Hamilton Gardens before seling

n for a three-course dinner inside

MG Stadium Waikato’s mediaommentary box.

Prior to dinner, the buyers

embarked on a tour of the

tadium, posed for a team photo

nd were surprised by an on-eld

apa haka performance.

The pre-Convene famil group

s pictured above alongside sta

rom H3, Hamilton & Waikato

Tourism and Montana Catering.

Corp Travel SummitTWO speakers have been added

to the line up for the Melbourne

Corporate Travel Day Summit on

27 Apr.

Anoop Raan, consulng

manager at American Express

Global Business Travel, APAC has

been named as a keynote speakerwhile Ma Coviello, program

manager – Corporate Travel (Asia

Pacic & Middle East) for BP

Indirect Procurement will be part

of the panel discussion.

For more informaon, head to

www.capaevents.com.

Syd events a big dealMORE than 46% of the one

million people who aended

this year’s New Years Eve in

Sydney travelled from overseasspecically for the event,

Stollznow research shows.

In addion, almost 90% of these

were repeat aendees.

Sydney’s Chinese New Year

Fesval this year drew more than

a million visitors, who collecvely

aended more than 70 events

over 16 days – an increase of 67%

on 2015.

Global Meetings DayTODAY is the rst GlobalMeengs Industry Day, with

convenon markeng bureaux

around the world promong

he importance of face-to-face

contact and business events.

BESydney is today running a

digital campaign on LinkedIn and

Twier aimed at highlighng why

meengs maer.

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