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Port Moresby’s MICE sector experiencing vital progress with venue upgrades and expansions
Monday, February 17, 2025
Port Moresby’s Conferences, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) sector is experiencing vital progress, with venues enhancing their amenities to draw enterprise.
Alan Christie, CEO of Steamships Hospitality, notes that their meals and beverage income has doubled in three years, largely as a consequence of conferences and occasions.
The corporate plans a 15-month renovation of the Grand Papua Resort beginning in April and is upgrading convention amenities at Ela Seashore Resort & Flats and Gateway Resort.
Airways Resort & Residences has launched the Athena convention centre, accommodating as much as 200 company for cocktails.
Basic Supervisor Gizelle Moreno mentions focusing on non-profit organizations and authorities sectors to spice up room occupancy by way of occasions.
IHG Inns and Resorts is investing K30 million in renovating Vacation Inn & Suites Port Moresby and Vacation Inn Categorical to satisfy evolving MICE calls for.
Director of Gross sales & Advertising and marketing Hudson Mitchell highlights their distinctive providing of outside occasions at Cassowary Park and an initiative to offset carbon footprints by planting bushes for booked occasions.
Loloata Island Resort affords an island expertise for team-building actions, attracting outstanding shoppers looking for a singular setting. Basic Supervisor Alex Wilson emphasizes their numerous applications, together with kayaking, coral planting, and hilltop treks, all possible inside a day.
Hilton Port Moresby, opened in 2018, caters to large-scale occasions, with a banquet corridor capability of as much as 1,000 folks.
Business Director Robbie Turner factors out the conference centre’s distinctive design, impressed by conventional village assembly locations, offering native taste and suppleness for occasions.
The MICE sector’s enlargement is pushed by substantial funding initiatives in fuel, mining, and minerals, prompting venues to improve amenities to satisfy present and anticipated demand.
This progress aligns with the federal government’s give attention to infrastructure growth and financial diversification, as outlined on the official authorities web site.
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