Entries open for the 2017 NZ Event Awards

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1 June 2017

New Zealand Events Awards 2017 now open for applications

New Zealand’s annual Events Awards open today for all 2017 applications as they look to celebrate another amazing year of success and innovation in a dynamic industry.

The Award’s organisers New Zealand Events Assocation (NZEA) Chair Andrea Scotland says that the Awards have seen year upon year growth creating an intensely competitive forum nationally that recognises and promotes excellence within the events sector.

“The purpose of the New Zealand Event Awards is to celebrate the boundaries pushed, the new benchmarks set and innovations we can share. We have world-class events and organisers in New Zealand, this is proven in the incredibly high calibre of applications we receive yearly and the feedback from our independent panel of judges.

“Last year entry application numbers doubled nationwide when compared to the 2015 submissions. This significant growth pattern illustrates that these Awards are truly an opportuntity for events of all types and sizes, their organisers and organisations, from all aspects of the industry, to be held up as the best of the best.”

The 2017 Awards introduces this year five new catagories to further celebrate and recognise New Zealand’s world class events indusry. Four of these catagories focus on sponsorship professionals and sponsors inviting them to showcase their work and success. And a fifth category has been established to showcase the providers and creators of Business to Business events of varying scale – Conferences, Incentive group travel programmes, tradeshows or other B2B styled activity which are crucial for many New Zealand industries in terms of growth and new opportunities.

Last year’s Award winners included Pop-Globe Auckland, Air New Zealand Queenstown Marathon, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Christmas in the Park Turangi.

Based on the success of last year’s sell out Award’s evening and feedback from Sponsors this year’s Awards will be held again in Auckland on 11 October at SKYCITY.

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New Zealand Events Association (NZEA), formerly known as New Zealand Association of Event Professionals, was formed more than a decade ago and now has over 1100 members. The Association represents the ever-increasing breadth of the New Zealand events industry. Its purpose is to advocate all aspects of events nationally; their economic outcomes and social benefits, and the people who work and volunteer in and around this unique industry in New Zealand

2017 Award Categories:

· Event Professional of the Year

· Emerging Event Professional of the Year

· Best Community Event of the Year

· Best Regional Event of the Year

· Best National Event of the Year

· Best International Event of the Year

· Best Industry Supplier for an Event

· New Zealand’s Favourite Event

New for 2017:

· Best Business Event of the Year

· Event Sponsorship Professional of the Year

· Best CSR or Community Event Sponsorship of the Year

· Best Arts or Cultural Event Sponsorship of the Year

· Best Sports Event Sponsorship of the Year

The qualifiying period: All events or exhibitions entered for the New Zealand Event Awards must have taken place (either started or concluded) between 1 March 2016 and 31 March 2017 inclusive (13 months)

For further Award and categories information please visit: http://nzaep.co.nz/awards/

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