GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA, 17-19 August 2009  
   
Monday 17 August 2009
Business Events Tourism Forum
Facilitator
Adrienne Readings, General Manager, Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre
 
Prof Leo Jago, Director, Centre for Tourism and Services Research, Victoria University in the International Business Events Sector and Action Being Taken in Australia to ‘Plug the Knowledge Gap’
Mike Cannon, Executive Director, Assoc of Australian Convention Bureaux Inc
What are the Convention Bureaux of Australia doing to keep the Business Events industry buoyant in this Global Economic Crisis?
Linda P Gaunt, CEO, Meetings and Events Australia Workforce skills - when the economy recovers, will we face a skills shortage
Matt Cameron-Smith, General Manager, Trade Marketing, Tourism Australia
Clive Dwyer, Director - Business Development, Melbourne Convention Centre Green is not a luxury colour. Examples of Australian business benefiting from an affordable green approach
Trevor Goldstone, CEO, Townsville Enterprise Limited Attracting Regional Business Events and the Think Townsville campaign
Ruth Appleby, Conference Manager, Newcastle Convention Bureau Business Tourism in NSW – Newcastle : a Case Study
Martin Lack, Director, ConferenceIT
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