Hotel industry to reap benefit from convention centres

Monday, July 9, 2018

Tourism experts at a hotel conference last week stated that convention centres could garner huge amount and the sector was deeply seated into business that corporate events could bring.

The number of delegates attending meetings and seminars rose by 7 percent to 1.6 million in 2017 as per the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

Chief executive of Conventions and Incentives Sue Sullivan predicted that Queenstown could be the next city to have a convention centre. However, there were some challenges with the managing growth for the region like any other place.

A recent Colliers report brought forward that Queenstown saw growth of nearly 20 percent in its revenue per hotel room.

The upcoming two major convention centres are the $475 million convention centre in Christchurch and the Sky City convention centre in Auckland.

As per an official business events boosted other sectors within the tourism industry that included the hotels and the food and beverage sector.

Former chief executive of Ateed Brett O’Riley  said that they were beginning to see the industry recognise that business events yield higher returns for the tourism industry so it was evident to invest more in convention centres.

Countries like Singapore should be looked upon while hosting events where everyone collaborates from zoos, hotels and local businesses.

While the Site Hospitality managing director Dave Galvin stated that hotels should turn  hyper-local and focus on their restaurants independently of the main business.

Spatial planning should be taken into consideration and one should be visible. Fine dining is dying a slow death and one has to think beyond the brand standards to grow the food and beverage arm.

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