Tourism Industry Tradeshows
TTNQ attends industry tradeshows to promote our destination. TTNQ frequently shares the trade booth with its members or exhibits on the stand of Tourism and Events Queensland or Tourism Australia as a guest.
TTNQ attends industry tradeshows to promote our destination. TTNQ frequently shares the trade booth with its members or exhibits on the stand of Tourism and Events Queensland or Tourism Australia as a guest.
Next event: 10 – 14 May 2026
The Australian Tourism Exchange (ATE) is Australia’s largest annual travel and tourism business-to-business event hosted by Tourism Australia. The event brings together Australian tourism businesses, and tourism wholesalers and retailers from around the world through a combination of scheduled business appointments and networking events. It also provides international travel buyers with the opportunity to experience Australia’s tourism offering first-hand through pre and post-event familiarisations. Around 1,500 Australian seller delegates from approximately 550 companies, 650 key buyer delegates from over 30 countries, and 70 international and Australian media attend this global event.
Who attends: TTNQ’s CEO, General Manager of Marketing and Sales & Marketing Managers
TTNQ contacts: Katherine Cutler, Harriet Ganfield, Sam Sakamoto
Next event: 27 – 29 October 2025
Meeting Place is ATEC’s biggest trade event and takes place each year, usually in late October or early November. Meeting Place is a full three day program offering business-to-business trade engagement appointments, an insightful conference program, topical break-out sessions, buyer and supplier forums, extensive networking opportunities and gala celebration and recognition awards. The number one industry-delivered trade event on the inbound calendar, Meeting Place is a must-do event, delivering the all-important commercial opportunities that help grow your business.
Who attends: TTNQ Sales & Marketing Managers
TTNQ contacts: Katherine Cutler, Harriet Ganfield, Sam Sakamoto
Next event: March 2026
Location: TBC
The event features a new product workshop and welcome function in March, followed by a full day of B2B meetings and networking happy hour drinks.
Who attends: Sales & Marketing Managers
TTNQ contacts: Katherine Cutler, Harriet Ganfield, Sam Sakamoto
Next event: 17 -18 June 2026
ATEC’s Explore Far North Queensland 2025 is an annual Trade Engagement Event. Explore North Queensland will include welcome networking drinks, business to business (B2B) meetings between ATEC buyer and seller members followed by a delegate dinner on Daydream Island in The Whitsundays.
Who attends: Sales & Marketing Managers
TTNQ contacts: Katherine Cutler, Harriet Ganfield
Event dates: 15 – 17 September 2025
The event will be held at the Torrance Marriott Redondo Beach Hotel and is an opportunity for representatives from the Australian tourism industry to establish and maintain business relationships with key qualified travel agencies, wholesalers, travel advisors and tour operators from across North America. It includes two days of pre-scheduled appointments between buyers and sellers as well as networking opportunities.
High demand is anticipated for the event; seller oversubscription will be managed in line with the selection criteria and in conjunction with state/territory tourism organisations to ensure quality appointment schedules.
Who attends: Western Sales & Marketing Manager
TTNQ contact: Katherine Cutler
Event dates: TBC
Location: TBC
Who attends: Sales & Marketing Manager
TTNQ contact: Harriet Ganfield
Event dates: 21 – 26 September 2025
QIC, UK & Europe has two distinct activities, firstly a Product Manager (PM’s) event targeting UK, Northern European, German, Swiss, Austrian, Italian, Dutch and French PM’s. The PM event will commence on Sunday 21 September and conclude Wednesday 24 September 2025. This activity includes 40 x one on one appointments, team bonding and networking events.
The second activity comprises of two retail agents training events in Cologne, Germany on the evening of Wednesday 24 September and Manchester United Kingdom on Thursday 25 September 2025. QIC, UK & Europe concludes at check out on Friday 26 September 2025.
This activity is vital to support our various airline partner routes into Queensland and to engage and upskill the knowledge our key distribution partners have of Queensland, its regions and, most importantly, the Queensland export ready products.
Who attends: Western Sales & Marketing Manager
TTNQ contact: Katherine Cutler
Event dates: 30 July to 1 August 2025
Australia Marketplace provides representatives from the Australian Tourism Industry the opportunity to establish business relationships with key qualified travel agencies and tour operators from Southeast Asia, specifically Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
Who attends: TTNQ Sales & Marketing Managers
TTNQ contact: Sam Sakamoto
Event dates: 3 – 6 August 2025
Tourism and Events Queensland invites Queensland’s tourism industry to share the unmistakeable Queensland holiday feeling with our ley partners from Japan and South Korea at this event.
Who attends: TTNQ Sales & Marketing Managers
TTNQ contact: Sam Sakamoto
Event dates: 26 -27 August 2025
The events is an opportunity for representatives from Australian Tourism Industry to establish and maintain business relationships with key qualified travel agencies and tour operators from India.
Who attends: TTNQ Sales & Marketing Managers
TTNQ contact: Sam Sakamoto
Event dates: TBC 2026
This event provides a platform for Queensland destinations and products to engage and train influential New Zealand Product Managers from inbound and wholesale agencies, and retail agents (including Aussie Specialists). A total of five distinct events will be held with the aim to reach approximately 200 agents and product managers.
This activity is vital to support various airline partner routes into Queensland and upskill the knowledge our key distribution partners have of Queensland, its regions and, most importantly, the New Zealand ready Queensland products.
Who attends: Western Sales & Marketing Manager
TTNQ contacts: Katherine Cutler
Event dates: 9 – 11 February 2026, Melbourne
The Asia Pacific Incentives and Meetings Event (AIME), is the leading trade event for the meetings and event industry in the Asia Pacific region. Each year, members of Business Events Cairns & Great Barrier Reef (BECGBR) join the bureau team to meet with qualified business event buyers from Australasia, but also some from key international markets including Asia, New Zealand and the USA.
The AIME program includes a day of knowledge and exchange sessions, followed by two consecutive days of pre-scheduled trade appointments. The event expects to host 500 buyers from around the world and welcome 3,500 visitor buyers and over 400 exhibitors.
Who attends: Business Events Cairns & Great Barrier Reef team and stand partners who are active in the incentive market.
TTNQ contact: Natalie Johnson
Event dates: 1 – 3 December 2025
Hosted by Business Events Australia, Dreamtime is held every two years in a different Australian destination. The Dreamtime program consists of business-to-business sessions between Australian industry and international incentive agents.
Post the Dreamtime trade show, buyers from the USA delegation will travel to Cairns & Great Barrier Reef for a three-day educational to experience first-hand the incentive offering of the destination.
Who attends: Business Events Cairns & Great Barrier Reef team and stand partners who are active in the incentive market.
TTNQ contact: Natalie Johnson
Event dates: 7 – 9 December 2025, Christchurch NZ
The PCOA conference is held annually in a different Australian city. The event provides the opportunity for business events suppliers and buyers to participate in interactive professional development sessions, panel discussions with industry leaders and networking events to strengthen relationships with key industry stakeholders.
Who attends: Business Events Cairns & Great Barrier Reef team and industry representatives who are active in the business events market.
TTNQ contact: Natalie Johnson
Event dates: America 7 – 9 October 2025 / Frankfurt 19 – 21 May 2026
IMEX is a global exhibition event for incentive travel, meetings and events that attracts thousands of professionals internationally. Business Events Australia attends both IMEX America and IMEX Frankfurt tradeshows and hosts a stand for Australian convention bureaux and Convention Centres.
Who attends: Business Events Cairns & Great Barrier Reef and Cairns Convention Centre.
TTNQ contact: Natalie Johnson
Next event: March 2026
The Business Events Australia Greater China Showcase is Tourism Australia’s signature showcase event for the China business events market. The three-day program provides Australian industry with the opportunity to strengthen relationships with key international business events agents, corporate buyers and media, and helps them gain insights into the China market.
Who attends: Business Events Cairns & Great Barrier Reef
TTNQ contact: Natalie Johnson
Next event: 12 August 2025
The Society of Incentive Travel Executives is a global association representing the incentive travel sector. SITE ANZ hosts an annual conference for incentive meeting planners and suppliers offering professional development and the opportunity to share insights into incentive travel whilst networking with other professionals.
Who attends: Business Events Cairns & Great Barrier Reef and industry interested in the incentive sector.
TTNQ contact: Natalie Johnson
Next event: 27 – 29 August 2025
The Tropical Showcase travels to Sydney and Melbourne, bringing Business Events Suppliers to the city! The Bureau together with 20 of the region’s Business Events professionals meet with Professional Conference Organisers, Destination Management Companies, Corporates and Associations to showcase the breadth and capacity of the region to host Business Events.
Who attends: Business Events Cairns & Great Barrier Reef (America) and business events suppliers.
TTNQ contact: Natalie Johnson
The kind of place you dream about… then realise it’s real. Perched above South Mission Beach, @elandraresort offers front-row views to the Coral Sea and the islands beyond. Hands up if you have stayed here?
📸 @permanentlywandering
#exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #thisisqueensland #seeaustralia @queensland @australia @cassowarycoastaustralia
ID: A tropical pool setting complete with palm trees, sun lounges and a view looking out the Coral Sea.
Is this as close to island perfection as you will find? We think so...let us introduce you to #FitzroyIsland 🌴🤿.
🎥 @amys.camera.lens
#exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #thisisqueensland #seeaustralia @queensland @australia @fitzroyisland @fitzroyislandadventures @sunloverreefcruises
ID Aerial footage of Fitzroy Island shows boats anchored in clear turquoise water, white-sand beaches backed by rainforest, and swimmers enjoying the water.
There’s cheese boards… and then there’s @mungallicreek cheese boards. Think creamy farm-made cheese, house-baked sweets, seasonal fruit and organic ice cream churned just metres from where it’s served. Pull up a chair on the verandah and settle in, this is what slow food looks like on the @athertontablelands.
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@australia
ID A couple visits Mungalli Creek Dairy. They browse the café’s cake display, order a large cheese platter, and enjoy it on the verandah overlooking the mountainous countryside.
Here at Etty Bay, the Southern Cassowary is part of the landscape but it’s also part of a much bigger story. These ancient rainforest guardians need our respect and protection to survive, so give them space, keep your distance and count yourself lucky if you see one.
📸 @helenapetryportfolio
ID A Southern Cassowary walks along the shoreline at Etty Bay, its striking black feathers and blue and red neck contrasting against the sand and ocean behind.
#exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #thisisqueensland #seeaustralia @queensland @australia
Low tide magic on the Great Barrier Reef Drive.
🎥 @kellerdiaries
ID Drone footage of the Great Barrier Reef Drive between Cairns and Port Douglas, featuring low tide sandbanks, winding coastal roads, turquoise waters and rainforest.
#exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #thisisqueensland #seeaustralia @queensland @australia @portdouglasdaintree
Wow! Can you feel the energy from this morning’s IRONMAN Cairns start?
It was next level… who else got goosebumps? Big congrats to young guns Bailey Tuddenham and Madi Toovey 🏊♂️🚴♀️🏃♂️ for taking out the IRONMAN 70.3. The full IRONMAN is far from over, so don’t miss a minute of the action on the Cairns Esplanade today 🎉🔥.
#exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #thisisqueensland #seeaustralia @queensland @australia @visitpalmcove 🎥 @ironman.cairns
ID A video showing the electric atmosphere at the IRONMAN Cairns start line. Athletes run into the water as the race begins, surrounded by cheering crowds, event flags and the early morning light over the Coral Sea.
Not a bad spot for a winter dip. Just saying.
📍Cairns Lagoon
📸 @myholidaycentre
ID Cairns Lagoon at sunset, featuring people swimming and relaxing in the water. The sky is painted in pastel pink and purple hues, with the iconic silver fish sculptures standing along the waterfront.
#exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #thisisqueensland #seeaustralia @queensland @australia
We know where we would rather be 😉. Trev’s out here road testing both ends of the thermometer, what’s your pick? Beanies or boardies?
🎥 @trevs_gone_outdoors
#exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #thisisqueensland #seeaustralia @queensland @australia
ID The video follows a man transitioning between two extreme landscapes, the tropical rainforest of Tropical North Queensland and the snowy mountains of southern Australia.
When the whales are this curious, you don’t need to chase the moment, it finds you 💙. Dwarf minke season has arrived, bringing the gentle giants of the deep back to the Great Barrier Reef.
Known for their calm nature and surprising curiosity, these sleek swimmers often circle boats and snorkellers, creating once-in-a-lifetime encounters you will never forget. The #GreatBarrierReef is the only place on Earth where you can swim with dwarf minke whales and it only happens for two months a year, right here in Tropical North Queensland.
Seen one? Dreaming of it? Tell us👇
🎥 @pablocogollos_photography and @oceanearthstudios via @gbrmarinepark
#exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #thisisqueensland #seeaustralia @queensland @australia
ID Underwater footage of a dwarf minke whale in the clear waters of the Great Barrier Reef.
Heli views, river crossings, red dirt, waterfalls, beach camps and one cracking sunset. Cape York, you’re a wild one and we love it!
📍Creb Track to the Tip
🚙 Pack the recovery tracks
🌴 Stay for a good time, not a long time
🎥 @_lanicooper_
ID A compilation of Cape York adventure scenes featuring 4WD vehicles crossing creeks, navigating muddy tracks and driving along red dirt roads.
