CANBERRA TO WELCOME 4,000

CANBERRA is set to welcome 4,000 delegates for a series of business events to take place over the next month.

Nine conferences will be held, bringing delegates from across Australia and around the world, after being secured by the Canberra Convention Bureau.

The bureau’s chief executive officer Michael Matthews said he was proud of the bureau team for its work in growing the number of business events that will be held in the city.

“Just this month to mid-Dec, the conferences we’ve secured bring over $8.8 million in estimated delegate expenditure to Canberra,” he said.

The largest event on the calender has been the Sixth International Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control Conference which was held this week and attracted more than 700 delegates to the city.

The convention had a number of speakers from the ANU Medical School and the Department of Health.

Other big events include The Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists Conference in early Dec, which will bring 700 delegates, and the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference for 600 delegates later this week.

National Convention Centre Canberra gm Stephen Wood said the city’s knowledge economy positioned Canberra as a “vital anchor in delivering powerful content” for business events.