Cairns Convention Centre

at 1 Wharf Street, Cairns , 4870 Australia

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Description

The Cairns Convention Centre, selected the World’s Best Congress Centre in 2014 and 2004, is a convention and entertainment centre in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.DescriptionThe centre has a floor space of 31,000 square metres on a 2.2 hectare site in the Cairns CBD, 10 minutes from Cairns International Airport. It has five halls, including the Great Hall, which caters to 2,330 theatre-style guests and can be divided into four separate rooms, and Hall Two, which holds up to 5,300. It has nine meeting rooms, six conference rooms, a media room and state-of-the art audio visual facilities. It is also home to the Cairns Taipans, an Australian National Basketball League team.HistoryThe Cairns Convention Centre is owned by the Queensland State Government and has been managed and marketed by AEG Ogden since1994. Stage one of the building opened on June 26, 1996 and a multi-purpose 5,300 seat hall was added in 1999. It was Australia’s first regional convention centre and the country’s first environmentally designed public building, and in its opening year it won the inaugural international EIBTM’s most environmentally conscious congress centre. It became home to the Cairns Taipans in 1999, the team’s first year in the NBL. The centre undertook a $12 million refurbishment in 2005 and a $6.3 million upgrade in 2011.Recent eventsIn 2014, the centre hosted the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting and the Australian Tourism Exchange conference, the first time it was held in a regional destination. Also in 2014, it held the World Buiatrics Congress, the 6th International Symposium on Fish Nutrition and Feeding, the Association of Financial Advisers Conference and Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects. In 2015, it hosted the Professional Bull Riding Cairns Invitational, adding 300 tonnes of sand to the floor of the Great Hall, the 25th Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry, World Congress on Larynx Cancer, Australasian Hydrographic Symposium, Prostate Cancer World Congress, Toyota Dealer Meeting and Hilux Launch and James Cook University Graduation Ceremonies. It has been selected to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games basketball heats.

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Summary

Cairns Convention Centre is Cairns based place and this enity listed in Convention Center category. Located at 1 Wharf Street QLD 4870. Contact phone number of Cairns Convention Centre: (07) 4042 4200