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Sydney conference facilities, event venues and hotels

Sydney can boast an impressive range of sophisticated conference facilities and conference accommodation, suiting every business event meeting style and budget; and supporting groups of any numbers, from 100 up to 5,000.

Below is some information on Sydney's world-class event facilities, conference venues, conference centres, exhibition venues and conference accommodation.

Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre

The Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre is located on the water’s edge of Sydney Harbour, and is Australia’s premier venue for international incentives, conferences, exhibitions and special events.

Nestled in Darling Harbour with an undercover walkway to 980 hotel rooms, the Centre is adjacent to the central business district with shopping, restaurants, clubs and Sydney’s premier attractions right on the doorstep.

With its world-class facilities, the waterfront venue is perfect for events of any size. It has a reputation for attracting major international conferences and multi-national corporate events.

Events are individually catered for by a team of event management specialists, world-class chefs, audio visual experts and support staff who ensure a successful and memorable experience every time.

The Centre maintains state-of-the-art audio-visual and information technology facilities, with support services that include an onsite broadcast studio and video production team.

The Centre is committed to working with the industry to ensure an environmentally sustainable future. Through Ecowise – our innovative environmental program – we support event planners and guests in their endeavours to adopt eco-friendly measures at meetings and events to reduce their impact on the environment.

The Centre’s commitment to environmental awareness saw it become one of the first convention centres in the world to be awarded the Green Globe Silver certification.

Sydney Olympic Park

Sydney Olympic Park is a 640-hectare precinct west of Sydney’s CBD. Its development was tailored to meet the needs of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, but since then it has become a centre for business, sporting, cultural, educational and environmental meetings and activities.

In 2007, Sydney Olympic Park hosted more than 2,000 business events, including meetings, conferences and exhibitions. Features include:

• Parkland: 425 hectares, making it the biggest urban park in Australia
• ANZ Stadium: holds the world record in crowd attendance for an event, at 109,874
• Acer Arena: second only to New York’s Madison Square Gardens for gross ticket revenue

Sydney conference hotels and venues

Many hotels and venues in Sydney offer world-class meeting, conference and event facilities and can support many styles of functions, from board meetings to conventions and gala events.

Sydney’s conference facilities and specialty venues are supported by more than 30,000 accommodation rooms in the Sydney region; 21,200 of those in the central part of the city.