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CLIA Australasia’s Cruise360 heads to Brisbane next yearCLIA Australasia’s Cruise360 heads to Brisbane next year

The Southern Hemisphere’s biggest annual cruise industry event, Cruise Lines International Association Australasia’s Cruise360, will be held in Brisbane on September 7, 2023.

Helen Hutcheon, Australasia correspondent

December 7, 2022

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This will be the first Cruise360 held outside of Sydney since the inaugural event in 2014.

It had been scheduled for Brisbane in 2020, ahead of the opening of the Brisbane International Cruise Terminal at Luggage Point, but was postponed in the early stages of the pandemic.

CLIA Australasia MD Joel Katz said Cruise360 ’23 will bring together hundreds of industry representatives from across the CLIA community, including travel agents, cruise line executives, ports and destination authorities and ships’ suppliers.

International cruising hub

‘Queensland has become one of our region’s most popular cruise destinations and the opening of the new Brisbane International Cruise Terminal has made the city an important international cruising hub within the South Pacific,’ Katz said.

Queensland Tourism Minister Stirling Hinchliffe said the state has more ports and anchorages than anywhere else in Australia.

A$1b to economy

‘Before COVID, cruise ships contributed around A$1b to our visitor economy and we are keen to see that grow as more ships commit to homeporting and local provisioning in Queensland,’ Hinchliffe said.

Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said attracting the conference reflects Brisbane’s status as a premier cruising hub in the South Pacific.

In hot demand

‘Brisbane has been in hot demand since cruising returned,’ Schrinner said. 

‘The Port of Brisbane’s new International Cruise Terminal is expected to welcome more than 80 cruises next year.'

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About the Author

Helen Hutcheon

Australasia correspondent

Helen Hutcheon did her cadetship on a shipping magazine and worked in P&O’s Sydney office for seven years as a public relations journalist.

For 19 years she was deputy editor of Travel Week, which was Australia’s leading trade newspaper that covered major local and international industry events.

In 2008 the late legendary Rama Rebbapragada presented her with an award from Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd ‘in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the cruising industry.’

In 2010 she won the Neil Frazer Award for ‘outstanding contribution to the cruise industry,’ elevating her to CLIA Australasia’s hall of fame.

She has been the Australasia correspondent for Seatrade Cruise Review since 1997 and for Seatrade Insider (now Seatrade Cruise News) since its launch in 2000.

 

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