INTRODUCING BUSINESS TRAVEL AT AIME

Now in its 21st year, the Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo (AIME) is recognised as a leading event in the Asia-Pacific region for event organisers and more recently, corporate travel managers.

Industry professionals and exhibitors from all over the world will meet in Melbourne for AIME 2013 and will experience two days of business connections, valuable networking and an extensive Education Program.

Showcasing destinations, airlines, venues and a wide range of products and services from all parts of Australia, the Asia-Pacific and internationally, AIME 2012 welcomed close to 800 exhibitors from 44 different countries and held close to 13,000 business appointments over the two days.

Benefits to exhibiting

• Meet with over 550 qualified Hosted Buyers and over 3,300 industry visitors
• Over 13,000 pre-arranged meetings between exhibitors and Hosted Buyers take place over two days
• Join over 800 exhibitors from around the world
• Attend the high level ACTE conference co-located at AIME
• 42% of Hosted Buyers organise Business Travel

For more information click on http://www.aime.com.au/businesstravel

City of Sydney: We're Officially a World Leader in Throwing Parties

The City of Sydney executive manager of culture, Rachel Healy said that per capita the city has more festivals than the world's other major metropolises.

"During the Olympics, the mayor of London hosted a world cities forum, which was the culmination of research conducted from 12 cities around the world to map the cultural activity of each one," Ms Healy said.

"Of those 12 cities, Sydney has per capita the highest number of festivals."

The City of Sydney backs eight annual festivals.

Ms Healy said demand from locals and visitors for more public events led the city to keep expanding the number.
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"People want to be out and about with other people, to hear for themselves and to live in the moment and see people in the flesh and I think that is a wonderful part of Sydney's psyche," Ms Healy said

"Even in winter, the Vivid Sydney festival and celebration of light is an amazing way to get people to interact with their surrounding and their city. They all rug up and still make it out for the event."

Ms Healy said that making full use of all of Sydney's surroundings has been the key to the continued success of the festivals.

"There are still hidden places we are discovering and sensible festival directors are working to find ways how people can experience these venues and take in these wonderful locations and that is why our festivals are so successful," she said.

There are also a number of community festivals that occur throughout the year in the CBD and surrounding areas.