Lisa Hopkins: Business Events Industry Aotearoa on overseas investors visiting for the Business Events trade show 'Meetings'

Yesterday saw the beginning of New Zealand’s largest business events trade show. 

‘Meetings’ connects overseas investors to domestic industries, highlighting what we have on offer in New Zealand. 

Over 1000 business events professionals are gathering in Rotorua’s Energy Events Centre over the next few days. 

Business Events Industry Aotearoa CEO Lisa Hopkins told Mike Hosking that New Zealand is in a really strong position to do very well. 

She said that overseas investors understand that New Zealand is open for business and when they visit, they aren’t just coming into Rotorua, but rather visiting other parts of the country and getting a really strong sense of what we have to offer. 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Very usual developments in Italy. A direct election of the
Italian Prime Minister has been ticked off by the Senate,
so change is coming. Joe mckennaon on that shortly meantime
back home, country's largest business events trade show. It's underway.
It's called Meetings. It connects overseas investors with domestic industries,
and by god, do we need some of that going
on at the moment. The boss of Business Events Industry,
Lisa Hopkins, is with us on all of this. Lisa, Morning,

(00:24):
good morning, night. So it's been held in, wrote a Ruer,
give me your vibal sense of wrote to Rua's ability
to host and bounce back and provide a good vibe
given all that's gone on with emergency housing and stuff
in the last couple of years.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Well, I guess what I can do is I can
tell you. I can give you some direct quotes from
some of our international visitors to say that they have
been blown away by the warmth and hospitality of everything
that they've seen down here. In is an underestimation or
an understatement of what's been going on. There is absolutely

(01:04):
you know, this is a city that's really come together.
This is a city that really understands how to take
care of visitors and they have done an exceptional job.
It's been it's been outstanding. It's just an exceptional.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Event, fantastic. Who are these people, what sort of money
do they have and what are they looking for?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
So a lot of these people are either they're what
we call intermediaries. They are working on behalf of a
number of different customers from across a broad spectrum of
different organizations who are either looking to hold their association
conference here in New Zealand or bring their customers to

(01:46):
New Zealand to hold an incentive or another big conference.
And look, you know, the value of this industry globally
goes into the trillions of dollars. It's a huge, huge industry.
And you know, in New Zealand, with all of its assets,

(02:08):
including the new convention centers, we stand at a really
strong position to do very well.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Good good good Luckson's been out there, you know, talking
about being open for business. These people understand we are
open for business.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Here one one hundred percent. And they aren't just coming
into Rotorola. They're also while they're down here, they're also
going into different parts of the country. So you know,
opened well into christ Church, over into Queenstown as well.
They're getting a really really strong sense of what New

(02:42):
Zealand has to offer.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Fantastic Lisa good Insight. Thank you for that. Lisa Hopkins,
Business Events Industry out here, I CEO with us This Morning.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
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