AIME Record results for BESydney
Image: Business Events Sydney Not to be outdone by the Melbourne Convention Bureau’s stellar events outlook, Business Events Sydney (BESydney) has announced their most successful calendar year on record at AIME this week.60,237 delegates visited Sydney for 91 events over a total of 244,453 delegate days in 2012, resulting in an additional AUD$220 million dollars for the NSW economy.Some of the large conferences delivered by BESydney in 2012 included: the Worldwide Chinese Life Insurance Congress with 3,400 delegates; the Tupperware Indonesia Incentive with 2,361 delegates; and the 16th International Congress on Dietetics with 2,270 delegates.64 events have currently been secured for 2013 expected to attract more than 50,000 business visitors and attracting an estimated economic impact of AUD$167.1 million to NSW.”We’ve hit the ground running this year. It’s been a great start to 2013 for us as well as for Sydney and NSW,” BESydney CEO Lyn Lewis-Smith said.Ms Lewis-Smith also discussed the success of BESydney in shifting the focus on business events in NSW to include both the visitor and knowledge economies, with the sector now considered a key factor in the State’s economic development platform.”It’s now understood at high and broad levels that business events are worth far more than the tally of tourism receipts,” Ms Lewis-Smith said.”Business events contribute to a healthy, global knowledge economy. The work we do to secure these events for NSW is now being embraced by the NSW Government as part of an aligned economic development strategy.”BESydney’s global Ambassador program will be expanded as part of the NSW Government’s ‘A Platform for Growth: The NSW Economic Development Framework’ which outlines how business and government can collaborate more effectively, invest in critical infrastructure and raise the global profile of Sydney and NSW.The bureau will also have a seat at the table to develop the Global Talent Hub initiative which will work with the Committee for Sydney, the NSW Government and leading businesses to leverage off the talent pool of international delegates at business events who may be interested in moving to NSW to study, invest, teach or conduct research.Source = e-Travel Blackboard: N.A.