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2018 EB Games and ZING! Pop Culture Conference
Event Venues: The Ville Resort-Casino, Townsville Entertainment Centre, Rydges Southbank Townsville and Elite Rodeo.
Accommodation Venues: The Ville Resort-Casino, Grand Hotel and Apartments Townsville, Mariners North Holiday Apartments, Oaks Gateway on Palmer and Oaks Metropole.
Delegates: 520 pax
Estimated Economic Impact: $1M
In September 2018, 500+ store managers, and regional and state team leaders from around Australia and New Zealand attended the 2018 EB Games and ZING! Pop Culture Conference, injecting nearly $1M into Townsville’s Economy. It was an opportunity for development, networking and for attendees to hear firsthand from gaming industry publishers on the upcoming game releases such as the highly anticipated worldwide launch of Red Dead Redemption 2.
2018 Global Eco Asia-Pacific Tourism Conference
Event Venues: Rydges Southbank, Townsville City Council, The Ville Resort–Casino
Accommodation Venues: Rydges Southbank, The Ville Resort–Casino
Delegates: 230 pax
Estimated Economic Impact: $302K
The Southern Hemisphere’s largest ecotourism conference was held in November 2018, focused on the Great Barrier Reef. The conference was first in Townsville in 2006, and its return in 2018 was a great outcome for the tourism industry. Having the premier event in Townsville allowed Townsville to showcase its outstanding environmental tourism experiences and facilities to the best ecotourism operators and tourism professionals in the world.
Additional MICE Events Townsville North Queensland has hosted
- NQE Conference
- Taxi Council Queensland Annual Conference
- Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference
- DestinationQ Conference
- Australian Society of Aerospace Medicine
- IPWEAQ Conference
- Hardware and Building Traders Conference
- ICTC Conference
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In the spirit of reconciliation, Townsville Enterprise and Townsville North Queensland acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout our region and Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
Townsville Enterprise a not-for-profit organisation and is the official Regional Tourism Organisation (RTO) and economic development body of the Townsville North Queensland region, extending from the Burdekin to the Hinchinbrook, west to Charters Towers, and including the central section of the Great Barrier Reef and its island communities of Magnetic Island and the Palm Island group.
