AUSTRALIA - The city-wide convention bureau, Business Events Sydney (BESydney), is to announce the details of an AU$7bn (US$7.08bn) infrastructure development programme at next week’s Asia Pacific Incentives and Meetings Expo (AIME) in Melbourne, 15-16 February 2011.
The major infrastructure development will be designed to attract the international conference, convention and incentive market. The major upgrades and creation of new infrastructure will centre on harbourside locations including the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Star City Casino and waterfront greening project, Barangaroo.
The programme is to be announced at 11am local time on Tuesday 15 February at the meetings trade exhibition. Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Chief Executive Officer, Ton van Amerongen; Barangaroo Delivery Authority Director of Communication and Marketing, Scott Maclean; and Star City Casino Managing Director, Sid Vaikunta, will come together to provide details of their respective multi-billion dollar redevelopments.
BESydney Chief Executive Officer, Jon Hutchison, will outline details of what these new developments mean to the business events industry.
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