ADELAIDE PLANNER’S GUIDE 2017/18 adelaideconvention.com.au 1 CONTENTS ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA 3 ADELAIDE’S RIVERBANK 9 DELEGATE EXPERIENCE 20 Your Official Invitations 2 Australia’s Best Connected Business, Adelaide – Walk in the Shoes of a Conference Delegate 19 Events and Entertainment Precinct 8 Strategic Partners 3 Getting Here and Getting Around 20 Be Surprised 4 The Conference Experience 21 5 Great Reasons to Select Adelaide 5 The Touring Experience 22 Delegate Touring Booking Portal 23 Incentives Adelaide 24 EVENT SUPPORT & SERVICES 28 DIRECTORY 37 MAKE AN ENQUIRY 65 Experience with Major Conventions 27 CBD Venues 36 Adelaide Convention Bureau’s Free Services 28 CBD Venues with Accommodation 42 Conventions Adelaide Program 29 Regional Venues with Accommodation 51 Come and Visit! 30 Event Services and Delegate Experiences 57 Events Calendar 31 2 ADELAIDE, Dinner on Glenelg Beach SOUTH AUSTRALIA Adelaide, South Australia is an inspiring and innovative destination which is set to surprise with its connected precincts, celebrated food and wine and pristine natural wonders. 3 Vardon Avenue, Adelaide YOUR OFFICIAL INVITATIONS “Adelaide is a fantastic part of the world. Lonely Planet has rated us as “Adelaide is a friendly and inviting multicultural city nestled in between top 5 regions in the world this year, and we have just opened the world’s golden beaches and three of the world’s best wine and tourism regions.” newest Convention Centre.” — Martin Haese — Leon Bignell MP Lord Mayor, City of Adelaide Minister for Tourism Leon Bignell MP Welcome Video Martin Haese Welcome Video 4 STRATEGIC PARTNERS Strategic Partners meet regularly to discuss opportunities for Adelaide, The destination is committed to a ‘Team Adelaide’ approach South Australia as a business events destination. Team Adelaide to hosting business events. consistently demonstrates a complete and unified solution to event organisers and delegates. The Strategic Partners of the Adelaide Convention Bureau are listed below. 5 Adelaide Cityscape BE SURPRISED The city’s ease of access and convenience between the airport, hotels Prepare yourself to be surprised by vibrant, clean and safe and its Riverbank Precinct, arguably Australia’s best connected business, Adelaide, South Australia, with its unprecedented level of events & entertainment precinct is unique to Australia. The $5bn Riverbank development project includes the largest BioMed City in the Southern infrastructure and development under way. Hemisphere, the new Adelaide Convention Centre and Festival Plaza redevelopment. This will be supplemented with an increase in hotels like the Sofitel planning to be developed in the near future. This level of infrastructure coupled with South Australia’s iconic food and wine will continue to surprise business events delegates and incentive groups for years to come. 6 Adelaide’s Riverbank 2 1 SUPERB ACCESS, EASE AND VALUE 5 GREAT REASONS AUSTRALIA’S BEST CONNECTED Adelaide has one of the fastest airport to city transfers anywhere in the world (just BUSINESS, EVENTS AND 6kms) with regular direct international and to select Adelaide ENTERTAINMENT PRECINCT domestic flights. Adelaide ranks as the most affordable capital in Australia as well Be surprised with Adelaide, South Australia as being undoubtedly the most walkable, Vibrant Adelaide is globally renowned for its as it completes an unprecedented level of meaning delegates and organisers will new infrastructure further enhancing the innovation, world class facilities, ease, value, enjoy exceptional ease and value during city’s ‘ease of use’ functionality and services their event. safe clean surrounds and superb climate. to the business events sector. A bold vision for the city’s infrastructure has resulted Within the CBD delegates can really in business events and entertainment experience the feel and culture of the city precincts only minutes’ walk from each from their doorstep, with the Adelaide other. Hotels are intermingled across the Convention Centre, shopping malls, city leaving delegates with a short walk sporting and entertainment venues, between business and entertainment beautiful parklands and hundreds of cafes, opportunities. restaurants and laneway bars only minutes away on foot. All of this is under the cloud of free Wi-Fi which is located across the city, ensuring Adelaide is also the gateway to the regions delegates are always connected during where stunning beaches, native wildlife and their stay in Adelaide, South Australia. world class wineries all within a short drive. 7 Adelaide Hills Dining 4 CELEBRATED WINE, CUISINE, FESTIVALS AND NATURAL WONDERS… 3 THE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE GLOBAL LEADERS OF INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION… ENGAGED FOR Adelaide, South Australia prides itself 5 in being the premium food and wine YOUR EVENT destination of Australia, with 74% of South TEAM ADELAIDE… Australia’s premium wine being exported. South Australian industry is diverse, SUPPORTING YOU AS ONE Visiting delegates and guests can enjoy innovative and powerful. The state boasts superb cuisine and celebrated wines Industry partners are committed to a global leaders across a number of key against the backdrop of unique and vibrant ‘Team Adelaide’ approach to securing specialty sectors including; health and festivals and events. major business events. Team Adelaide medicine, bioscience, minerals, energy, consistently demonstrates a complete and agriculture and agribusiness, water, Renowned wine regions such as the unified solution to event organisers and defence, aerospace, education, advanced Barossa are just a stone’s throw from delegates, with each element presented in manufacturing and sustainability. Adelaide and home to major brands such a collaborative fashion. as Penfolds and Jacob’s Creek. For unique The Adelaide Convention Bureau’s and accessible wildlife, the beautifully Senior executives of the Bureau’s strategic ‘Conventions Adelaide’ program offers a preserved Kangaroo Island plays host to partners meet on a regular basis to discuss network of over 75 Ambassadors who are kangaroos, koalas, sea lions, penguins, opportunities and plan for specific events, leaders across these key sectors and are platypi and all manner of fauna. Whilst Port this provides the ideal platform for a committed to a successful convention Lincoln is home to the Great White Shark, successful event and can only occur in program. Southern Bluefin Tuna and Coffin Bay a small city with big infrastructure, like Oysters. Adelaide, South Australia. 8 ADELAIDE’S Adelaide Footbridge RIVERBANK The Adelaide Riverbank is one of Adelaide’s iconic public spaces, offering panoramic views across the River Torrens and surrounding parklands. 9 Adelaide’s Riverbank AUSTRALIA’S BEST CONNECTED Business, Events & Entertainment Precinct This area is developing as a world-class business, events and Central to the phase of exciting new infrastructure is the entertainment precinct creating a lively and highly connected riverside re-development of Adelaide’s Riverbank — home to Adelaide space for delegates to meet and do business by day and be entertained Convention Centre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide by night. Complementing these developments is a world leading health and Casino, BioMed City, hotels and surrounding plazas. biomedical research hub featuring pioneering research institutes and one of the world’s most advanced hospitals, cementing Adelaide’s reputation as a destination for related conventions. 10 Adelaide Convention Centre ADELAIDE CONVENTION CENTRE The first stage was opened to the public in March 2015. This wing has A $400 million 2-stage redevelopment of the Adelaide expanded westwards over the railway lines and now sits over the road Convention Centre is significantly increasing capacity from Adelaide’s BioMed City. Stage two of the redevelopment replaces the original Plenary Building (home of the first convention centre in Australia in and flexibility with the end result being three distinct 1987) with a multi-purpose, state-of-the-art facility with plenary capacity of interlinked buildings. up to 3,500 seats and opens September 2017. This redevelopment positions Adelaide Convention Centre as one of the most versatile, technologically advanced and appealing event spaces in the world. 11 Artists Impression – Adelaide Festival Centre Redevelopment ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE & PLAZA The outcomes of the project will enable the Adelaide Festival Centre to Adelaide’s iconic Festival Centre has commenced a $90 continue to attract the biggest and best shows and events to Adelaide. million re-development with improvements to the building’s The redevelopment will better support presenters and reward patrons with exterior and an internal technical upgrade. the best arts and entertainment attractions within Adelaide’s Riverbank. A further significant commitment relates to the exciting redevelopment of Festival Plaza. The Festival Centre sits at the heart of the Plaza and will be a key part of this transformative project that will enhance the arts and entertainment attractions in the Riverbank precinct. 12 Artists impression – Adelaide Casino Expansion ADELAIDE CASINO The Adelaide Casino has already embarked on the next phase of its The Adelaide Casino has recently undergone a multimillion redevelopment, a $50 million investment to a luxury complex, offering dollar refurbishment, making it a world class entertainment services for the high end consumers. The award-winning contemporary dining of Sean Connolly’s New York Brasserie inspired restaurant,