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Commercial Information: The following organisation can offer advice: Victorian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Employers’ House, 196 Flinders Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 (tel: (3) 8662 5333; fax: (3) 8662 5462; e-mail: webmaster@vecci.org.au; website: www.vecci.org.au).
Conferences/Conventions: Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city and gateway to the southern region, has convention facilities to match international standards – the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre is the largest exhibition space in the southern hemisphere with over 14,000 hotel rooms, 30 meeting rooms, 7300sq m of exhibition space and three state of the art theatres. The World Congress Centre, opened in 1990, also offers 28 meeting areas for up to 3500 delegates. A further exhibition complex linked by a walkway to the World Congress Centre, Melbourne, opened in 1996. Also, a casino-leisure complex, Crown Towers, opened in 1997. Major convention facilities include Dallas Brooks Conference Centre, Melbourne Hilton on the Park, Hyatt on Collins, the Radisson President Hotel and Convention Centre, Regent of Melbourne, Royal Exhibition Building and Convention Centre, Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne Park Tennis Centre and Victorian Arts Centre. For more information on conferences and conventions in Victoria, contact the Australian Tourist Commission or the Melbourne Convention and Visitors Bureau, Level 12, IBM Centre, 60 City Road, Southbank, VIC 3006 (tel: (3) 9693 3333; fax: (3) 9693 3333; e-mail: mcvb@mcvb.com.au; website: www.mcmb.net.au) or Melbourne Convention and Visitors Bureau (UK Office), 42a Packhorse Road, Gerrards Cross, Bucks SL9 8EB, UK (tel: (01753) 481 540; fax: (01753) 481 600; e-mail: 106465.556@compuserve.com).
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