ID Events Australia turns 49!
Back in 1973, before the Sydney Opera House opened and when tourists to Australia came in on the back of Paul Hogans “shrimp on the barbie” commercial… Bill Wright was pioneering a new business events idea… Identifying Incentive travel was lacking specific destination management services ID (standing for Incentive Development) was born. Fast forward 49 […]
Tassie experiential
I think Australians are accustomed to enjoying amazing scenery washed down with world famous food and wine experiences. Remember Tourism Australia had a whole campaign called Restaurant Australia not that long ago. Pre pandemic and all…
ID Events Guide to the Ultimate Hobart Corporate and Incentive Experiences
It’s a hard job, but somebody has to do it! Last month Dani visited Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, to take a first hand look at some of the latest incentive tourism ideas from our southernmost state. Although Tasmania is one of the smallest states in Australia, it punches well above its weight, boasting the […]
Pause with Paws
Getting Back Together… it sounds like we broke up. But that is what happened to our Business Events Industry… completely unintentionally, we broke up. Our industry is full of like-minded individuals, crazy, creative types – a social bunch who know the power of togetherness. We live the highs of achievement which is garnered via co-operation […]
Back to Basics: What do we want in our post COVID-19 world…?
Like many full-service Destination and Event Management Companies, COVID-19 has disrupted our workplace and slowed our operations down. The speed of change was rapid, suddenly we were all in this new reality working from home in lockdown. Quite quickly, we decided to take stock and evaluate what is important to us. Why is it we […]
MICIENET Industry article published February last year
What they do: The six-day event saw the delegation journey from Caims to Sydney, with a quintessentially east coast itinerary including a hot air balloon ride at Port Douglas, a visit to the Great Barrier Reef, dinner at Flames of the Forest, a Harbour Bridge climb, surf lessons at Bondi and an Opera House tour. […]
ISO… Life in Australia for a full service Destination Management and Events Agency
Like everyone around the world, the outbreak of COVID-19 presents, without a doubt, a major and evolving challenge. Suddenly, as Tourism Australia’s well executed video says “our world just got a whole lot smaller” (link to “with love from AUS video”). As we face the obstacles head on, and while we all wait for the […]
The Top 10 Incentive Travel Destinations in Australian for 2020
Thinking about planning your next Incentive Destination Incentive, Conference or Event in Australia in 2020 ….. and wondering where to go? Although Australia is the world’s smallest continent, it is actually huge! To give you some idea about just how vast it is, Australia is the world’s largest island, the 6th largest country in the […]
Volunteering at BlazeAid Braidwood
Earlier this month, some of our ID Events team had the privilege to work alongside other volunteers at BlazeAid, a volunteer-based organisation that works with families and individuals in rural Australia after natural disasters such as fires and floods. “The bushfires might be out, and the world focus turned to the impact of the COVID […]
IS IT SAFE TO TRAVEL TO AUSTRALIA AFTER THE 2019 BUSHFIRES?
Australia has been making headlines around the world after one of the worst fire seasons in its history. And understandably, many business travellers and tourists are unsure whether or not it is now safe to travel to Australia. The good news is that although bushfires are impacting some parts of Australia, thankfully many areas of […]
