TRENZ
Monday 7 May – Thursday 10 May 2012
Queenstown Events Centre, Queenstown
TRENZ is your annual opportunity to dazzle top international travel Buyers with your uniquely New Zealand experience and product. Together we’ll showcase the very best that New Zealand has to offer travellers, packed into one fantastic place, across four exciting days.
TRENZ 2012 will be your chance to meet and mingle with some of the most important people in the business. A full appointment book means established relationships strengthened and new opportunities kindled.
It’s a cost-effective opportunity to meet more than 260 influential travel buyers from around the world. But don’t take our word for it. Here’s what TRENZ 2011 delegates told us:
- It was the best TRENZ yet.
- This event was a goldmine of information and ideas, not to mention the chance to discover just how many great things are going on in our tourism industry – big and small, north and south, east and west.
- The event proved to be an outstanding success for us. We made many new contacts as well as signed new contracts, plus connected and reconnected with many tourism industry professionals from around the globe.
- It’s been a phenomenal week which has given Queenstown unprecedented exposure to some of the world’s top buyers and travel media.
- The morning talks at TRENZ were interesting, educational and inspiring. A great way to start my day.
|
TRENZ 2011 in numbers
|
Important dates and deadlines click here
- More opportunities to learn from experts:
- Educational workshops on hot topics in the tourism industry
- More breakfast speakers offering insights into current tourism trends
- Informative media briefings will be open to all delegates
- New and creative ways to highlight your product to TRENZ buyers and media before the event
- Added depth to your TRENZ experience through innovative use of social media and mobile technology
- New function venues and formats
- Fresh opportunities to experience fantastic Southern Lakes visitor experiences at first-hand
Successful elements of TRENZ won’t change. There will still be plenty of opportunities for business to business meetings and networking, including:
- focused 15 minute appointments, allowing you to hear about the range of premium quality New Zealand tourism products on offer
- free appointment times to catch up with Buyers you don’t have formal appointments with
- networking and social events at venues throughout Queenstown, just minutes from the TRENZ exhibition.
TRENZ focuses on delivering the very best New Zealand has to offer, to showcase our unique destination and drive future business. For New Zealand tourism operators, TRENZ is a cost effective opportunity to meet more than 260 influential travel buyers from around the world. TRENZ provides an important forum to showcase product, forge relationships with key buyers and write business for the seasons ahead.
Meet who you want to meet with
Focused appointments of 15 minutes allow Exhibitors to brief Buyers on their product. Exhibitors and Buyers get to select who they want to see, to ensure they get maximum benefit from their appointments.
Grow New Business
As well as experienced Buyers from established companies new Buyers from new and emerging markets are being invited to the event.
Plenty of networking opportunities
A number of functions across the TRENZ week will offer extra opportunities to network with Buyers, Media and fellow tourism operators. Based on your feedback we are exploring opportunities for new venues and formats for functions.
Communicate with a wider domestic and international target audience
Improvements to the media programme to increase opportunities for operators to showcase product to international and domestic media. Delegates will also have the opportunity to sit in on open presentations to the media from high profile individuals and companies
Activities
The 2012 programme allows delegates additional networking opportunities and the chance to experience the best of Queenstown and a half day has been allocated for delegate famils of some of the region’s iconic tourism attractions.
Keen to apply?
Companies wishing to exhibit at TRENZ 2012 must fit the Exhibitor criteria and submit an online application form. By submitting the application form the named applicant agrees to the Exhibitor terms and conditions.
Core to TRENZ is 51, 15 minute appointments for Buyers and Exhibitors to participate in. Exhibitors will also have the opportunity to schedule appointments with Media.
The 2012 programme is broadly:
Monday:
Registration for all delegates
Exhibitor booth set-up
Southern Lakes Welcome function
Tuesday:
Full day appointments
Media programme begins
Regional Rendezvous function
Wednesday:
Morning appointments
Southern Lakes famil activities for all TRENZ delegates
Free evening
Thursday:
Full day appointments
Farewell function
For a more detailed programme, click here.
