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MELBOURNE – Reed Travel Exhibition (RTE) has announced the winners of the AIME 2008 Awards on the second day of the event in Melbourne.
Elizabeth Rich, Executive Director of the Business Events Council of Australia, won the Industry Person of the Year Award for the Asia-Pacific region.
Rich’s 30-year career in the meetings industry has included the management of two of Australia’s leading industry associations, the establishment of industry education programs and lobbying of successive governments on the value of the business events industry. Ms Rich also manages the AIME Business Events Forum and ICCA Youth Forum at AIME.
The AIME Award for the Industry Person of the Year in the International category went to Martin Lewis, managing editor of UK-based Meetings & Incentive Travel magazine.
In presenting the award, Paul Kennedy, RTE Group Exhibition Director, described Lewis as a true internationalist, an outspoken commentator on industry affairs, a speaker and presenter whose body of work over the last 20 years has gone beyond his company’s self interest.
The AIME Awards also included five categories of stand awards including a new environmental stand award and an award for the Best Environmental Supplier. The awards went to:
Best Single Exhibitor Stand
Flemington – The Event Centre
Best Multi Exhibitor Stand
Northern Territory Convention Bureau
Most Creative Stand Design
Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority
Best New Exhibitor Stand
Tourism Australia
Best Environmental Stand,
Intercontinental Hotels Group, New Zealand
Best Environmental Supplier
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC)
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