Can Sydney cope?
According to a recent Sydney Morning Herald report, Sydney’s business community will gain next to nothing from hosting the APEC Leaders Summit in September. This announcment does seem a little dramatic, given the certain windfall for hotels and security companies like Thales, not to mention the big business leaders who are actually invited to join the APEC discussions.
The concern, though, is for those small businesses directly affected by the lockdown of the CBD and the subsequent mass exodus during the public holiday in September.
Yet the biggest loser in all this is surely the meetings industry, which has been shut out altogether.
Instead of drawing on PCOs and meetings professionals, the APEC events are being handled entirely by the APEC 2007 Taskforce, a division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
We’d like to hear from you – will APEC be a good thing for Sydney? Would the meetings industry do a better job than the government taskforce or is this just another example of a major event bypassing our industry?
posted by CIM Magazine @ 5/15/2007 02:14:00 PM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
Perhaps the Government departments and taskforce have been speaking with MEA, who think it's a great idea to bring the management of their annual conference in house rather than outsource or tender to a PCO. Even our own industry representative body believes that they can do a better job themselves, so what hope do we have convincing a government body??
I am an in-house meeting manager in a federal government department and am disappointed that in-house meeting managers are continually not accepted as meeting professionals. Whilst I don't work for PM&C, I do know some members of the taskforce and they have extensive experience in the industry. We may be government and we may work in-house but we are also very active members of this industry and are as passionate about it as anyone else.
Perhaps anonymous with much to say about the Peak Body for Meetings & Business Events would like to contact the said body and ask for an understanding of the reasoning behind the in-house decision, before making what may be construed as an uneducated comment
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