Organisers of the Australian Event Awards and Symposium have signed a three-year deal with the City of Coffs Harbour. The destination will host the annual gathering of the Australian events industry from 2025 to 2027. The regional City on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales is equidistant from Sydney and Brisbane and has direct flights from Australia’s four largest cities on the eastern seaboard – Sydney, Melbourne Brisbane and Canberra. “It has always been important to us to take the awards and symposium to areas of Australia that can benefit from exposure to the wider events industry and from which the industry can also benefit. We were looking for a destination that can help us to grow the industry while simultaneously leveraging Australian events to benefit the destination. I think we've found a great fit here with Coffs Harbour,” Ian Steigrad, Managing Director, Event Awards and Symposium The partnership between Coffs Harbour and the Australian Event Awards and Symposium comes at a time when the destination is benefitting from new and upgraded accommodation and event spaces.
In addition, the recent Urbis Consultancy report, created on behalf of the State Government body Destination North Coast NSW, identifies sites in Coffs Harbour that have been selected as two of four suitable locations for a potential North Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre. The destination already hosts a vibrant year-round calendar of sporting and cultural events, festivals and conferences. “We’re excited to be taking the Australian Event Awards and Symposium to a regional location,” said Ian Steigrad, managing director of the Event Awards and Symposium. Over the next three years, both the Australian Event Awards ceremony, attended by the best of the best in the Australian events industry, and the Australian Event Symposium, an opportunity for the entire industry to learn, network and collaborate, will be held in tandem in Coffs Harbour during October. Comments are closed.
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