AIME partners with Ozaccom Plus to offer new booking portal

2 Dec 2011

MEDIA RELEASE

AIME partners with Ozaccom Plus to offer new booking portal

2 December 2011: Organisers of the Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo (AIME) have launched a partnership with Ozaccom Plus, allowing AIME attendees travelling to Melbourne to compare a range of preferable hotel and flight rates via a simplified online booking tool.

AIME attendees will now be able to easily book their flights and accommodation via a link on the AIME website. The site will display the preferable rates arranged for attendees by the AIME team as well as the best online rates being offered that day so that they can compare and book all on the one site.

Sally de Swart, Reed Travel Exhibitions Director for AIME, says the new initiative is an exciting step forward for AIME and is thrilled to be able to offer this easy service to attendees.

“Exhibitors and visitors to AIME 2012 will appreciate how easily they will be able to book their travel to Melbourne through the Ozaccom Plus system. It takes the guess work out of travel planning and means our attendees don’t need to spend their valuable time trawling different booking websites,” Ms de Swart said.

The site will include preferable rates from Australian Hotel Association (AHA) properties, as well as three additional properties, with more hotels to be added up until December.

Liza Watt, Principal of Ozaccom Plus, is excited about partnering with AIME to offer its new accommodation booking system which is believed to be the only one of its kind in the world.

“This approach for booking accommodation and travel to an exhibition of this nature has never been provided before, and as Reed Travel Exhibitions and Ozaccom Plus are both forward thinking organisations it is the perfect partnership to introduce Australia’s business tourism industry to the future of accommodation management for exhibitions and meetings,” Ms Watt said.

For more information visit www.aime.com.au and www.ozaccom.com.au

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Notes to Editor

Reed Travel Exhibitions

Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE) is the world’s leading provider of exhibitions in the travel and tourism industry. Its wide-ranging portfolio of events around the globe covers leisure travel, luxury travel and the meetings and incentives industry.

The 12 events are; World Travel Market (WTM), Arabian Travel Market (ATM), International French Travel Market (IFTM), La Cumbre, International Golf Travel Market (IGTM), International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM), International Luxury Travel Market Asia (ILTMA), Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo (AIME) (owned by Melbourne Convention + Visitors Bureau), Exhibition for the Incentive Business Travel Market (EIBTM), Gulf Incentive Business Travel Market (GIBTM), Americas Incentive Business Travel Market (AIBTM) and China Incentive Business Travel Market (CIBTM).

RTE is a business unit of Reed Exhibitions. In 2010, Reed Exhibitions held more than 460 events in 36 countries bringing together more than seven million people from around the world generating billions of dollars in business.

Reed Exhibitions is owned by Reed Elsevier, the world’s leading provider of professional information and online workflow solutions.

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AIME 2013 Dates
Tuesday	26 February	10am - 6pm
Wednesday	27 February	10am - 5pm