In Reply to: Travel expo Melbourne posted by gailo on Saturday, 7. January 2006 at 03:02 Bali Time:
following the November incident in Bali.
They had been organised by Air Paradise International.
Most of the Hotels and other Exhibitors felt that, due to the circumstances they would be best to stay at their respective properties/businesses and that it was probably not an appropriate time to hold Expos.
I'd love to see someone organise them again and think that late January would be highly appropriate. We were involved in the API Adelaide Expo in November 2004 and it was a brilliant success. In the 15 day "window of opportunity" to book and pay for "Expo Special Deals" my office generated in excess of $370,000 in new Air Paradise / Bali bookings.
I honestly think that, to a large degree, Kadek Wiranatha, owner of API was "banking" on the Expos in Brisbane and Melbourne (with Trade Expo in Sydney)being as successful as Perth and Adelaide were in 2004, generating instant forward bookings and much-needed cash-flow.