Trade Events

Where: Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, USA
Timing: 7-10 October 2024

IMEX America is the USA’s largest meetings industry trade show. It is a global exhibition event for incentive travel, meetings and events that attracts thousands of professionals from the USA and internationally. With more than 3,000 hosted buyers attending, IMEX America provides opportunities for business, networking and education.

2025 dates are 6-9 October 2025.

Where: Barcelona, Spain
Timing: 19-21 November 2024

IBTM World - the live show will take place from 19 to 21 November 2024 and will incorporate one-to-one meetings between exhibitors and buyers, as well as a knowledge program, with a range of targeted education sessions. 

Business Events Australia is not attending in 2024.

Where: Toronto, Canada followed by Minneapolis, Des Moines and Dallas, USA
Timing: 13-19 March 2025

The Business Events Australia North America Roadshow will visit four cities in North America to promote Australia’s offering to the corporate/incentive and association business planners community in each destination. 

The Roadshow aligns with the Smart Meetings University (SMU) trade event in New York, which runs from 10-12 March 2025.

Registration will open in mid-October 2024.

Where: Xiamen, China
Timing: 24-26 March 2025

The Business Events Australia Greater China Showcase will return to China for the first time since 2019, and will be held in Xiamen, China. During the Showcase, Chinese buyers (incentive agents and corporate customers) will meet face to face and engage with Australian sellers via one-on-one appointments.

There will also be a seminar for Convention Bureaux representatives only to follow in Singapore on 28 March 2025.

Where: Hong Kong
Timing: First edition scheduled for March 2025 and is no longer going ahead

Where: Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Timing: 16-17 April 2025

The Meetings Show Asia Pacific, organised by Northstar Travel Group, is the premier trade show gathering event organisers and suppliers to connect, contract and forge new partnerships within the global business events industry.

Discover leading destinations, venues, hotels and other key business events suppliers, complemented by an exclusive hosted buyer programme, bringing senior meetings, conventions, events and incentives buyers to a bustling tradeshow floor. 

At this stage, Business Events Australia is not attending in 2025.

Where: Frankfurt, Germany
Timing: 19-22 May 2025

IMEX Frankfurt is a key business events exhibition where international planners from the conference, convention and corporate events industries gather to do business. IMEX gives the Australian business events industry the opportunity to meet influential international buyers responsible for organising corporate meetings, incentive travel programs and association events.