Tourism NZ looks to get billion-dollar business events sector back on track

Tourism NZ looks to get billion-dollar business events sector back on track
Wellington's new conference centre, Tākina, has positive bookings. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Brent Melville
Tourism New Zealand is targeting $135 million worth of international conferences across 90 events over the coming financial year.That would follow the 84 successful bids valued at $120m for the year ended June 2023. The biggest of those would include the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education planned for November 2025, which could attract 3,000 international delegates to Auckland’s NZ International Convention Centre. Then there's the 22nd International Sedimentological Congress, to be held at Tākina in Wellington i...

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