The Natural Place to Meet
Cairns & Great Barrier Reef is a tropical region encouraging genuine connections to nature and each other. Five-star hotels and resorts line the waterfront of Cairns, Palm Cove, Port Douglas, and our tropical islands. Create great moments in the oldest rainforest, choose your own adventure on the largest coral reef and learn from two indigenous cultures.
CONNECT GREAT. LEAVE GREATER.
Latest News
Keep up-to-date with the latest news, articles and media releases from the Business Events Cairns and Great Barrier Reef Industry.
Planners introduced to sustainable Cairns events
Australia’s leading event planners have been gifted a tree to increase the habitat of tree kangaroos on the Atherton Tablelands in Tropical North Queensland as a thank you for attending the Cairns & Great Barrier Reef Business Events Regional Showcase in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this week.
Cairns showcases a week of business events
A conference for one of Australia’s leading event management companies is kicking off a bumper week of business event activities in Cairns from Monday (March 27) showcasing the destination’s capability to host sustainable meetings, conferences and incentives.
Cairns & Great Barrier Reef – the home of sustainability
Cairns & Great Barrier Reef is in an enviable position. Gateway to two World Heritage-listed icons – the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest, and a regional city, local business events professionals and companies that are acutely aware of their responsibility for the ongoing sustainability of not just the Tropical North Queensland environment but those who call it home.
Sustainable events made easier in Cairns & Great Barrier Reef
A carbon offset program for business events and online hubs designed to make sustainable and accessible travel easy to access are among the new initiatives to be revealed by Business Events Cairns & Great Barrier Reef at AIME 2023.
Sustainable Travel Hub launches in Tropical North Queensland
Travellers can easily find interactive conservation projects, immersive cultural experiences and eco-certified operators with the launch of the Tropical North Queensland Sustainable Travel Hub today (February 3).
Australia’s first offshore nursery gives birth
Corals grown in Australia’s first offshore coral nursery at Fitzroy Island off Cairns have spawned for the first time after being planted on the Great Barrier Reef four years ago.
Nurturing Nature & Delegates
Business events can reduce their environmental impact, ensure events are staged with a greater purpose, and provide a sense of achievement for delegates who attend.
Beer that helps the Great Barrier Reef
Cairns & Great Barrier Reef is the natural place to meet… and eat and drink! Ask anyone who’s visited, and they’ll tell you discovering our reef and rainforest is thirsty work.
Introduce your delegates to the world’s oldest rainforest
Skyrail Rainforest Cableway is an experience through Australia’s most famous rainforest, the Wet Tropics, whose ancestry predates dinosaurs and is home to 15 of the 26 families of ancient flowering plants in the world, just to name a few accolades.
Minimise the impact of where your delegates lay their head
As Crystalbrook Collection expands across Australia, their three Cairns-based properties lead the way on their mantra “travel with a lighter footprint”.
Delegates contribute to reef health
As a natural delegate booster, it’s hard to go past the world’s most extraordinary reef; the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef.
Whatever the weather, Cairns is the natural place to meet
Cairns & Great Barrier Reef is a full sensory experience for delegates. Our seasons deliver warm days all year. Regular rainfall over summer and autumn keeps the landscape a rich green; the rainforest is at its most lush and waterfalls are full and spectacular for pre and post-touring adventures.
@tropicalnorthqueensland
Did you know that the southern cassowary is only found in parts of Papua New Guinea and the north-east of Australia, so there`s nowhere better to try spot a cassowary in the wild than Tropical North Queensland 🌴✨
It ain’t called the @cassowarycoastaustralia for nothing!
📸 @islandhoppas #exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #thisisqueensland #seeaustralia #cassowarycoast

Views from the top of Mount Tyson in Tully Gorge National Park 🌿✨
🎥 @rollwithbeck #exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #cassowarycoast

If you look closely, you might spot some crocs on Hinchinbrook Island (Munamudanamy) 😉🌴
For all the avid hikers out there, this is the place for you! This 4-day, fully self-sufficient hike will take you on an epic journey across mangroves, eucalypt woodlands, rainforests, refreshing swimming holes and waterfalls, rugged ranges and secluded beaches. Remember, you’ll need to plan your trip in advance as the number of hikers is limited to a maximum of 40 people on the trail at any one time 💚
📸 @jilarapearl #exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #thisisqueensland #seeaustralia #cassowarycoast

Some say these guys are the lego of the ocean, we say stonefish are just masters of disguise…just don’t step on them 🐠
🎥 @pablocogollos_photography #exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR

Forget flop & drop island holidays, set your alarm and catch the sunrise from the hilltops 😍✨
📍 Cooks Lookout, Lizard Island
🎥 @ashleighbridget #exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #CapeYork

Welcome to the tropics, enough said, just watch 😉🦋
🎥 @cairns_tours #exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR

Come with us on an outback adventure to @cobboldgorge 🧡🌴 #exploretnq #explorecairnsgbr #gulfsavannahoutback

You’ll be falling for the tropics after a day of waterfall chasing on the @athertontablelands 🦋🌴
Nature plays such an important part in our mental health and well-being, so this RUOK day, we`re challenging you to get out and explore the great outdoors - it`s called great for a reason! Head to our bio link to read about some of our favourite places to get back to nature 💛
📸 @lilandjake #exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #thisisqueensland #seeaustralia #athertontablelands

You might be surprised to find out that #GreenIsland is actually a sand cay! This means the island gradually grew over the past 6000 years or so as the ocean collected sand, rubble and other reef debris into a pile that later grew plant life and began it’s journey to being one of our favourite tropical islands 🪸🏝️
🎥 @greatadventurescruises #exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #thisisqueensland #seeaustralia

Quick question: when you think rainforest, what do you think of? If your answer wasn’t the Daintree Rainforest, then you’re wrong 😌🌿
The @wettropicsworldheritage rainforest is one of the oldest surviving rainforests in the world, around 30 million years older than the Amazon Rainforest 🤯 It’s home to 20 Indigenous language groups and a large portion of Australia’s plant and animal species!
Did you know that there are more tree species found in 1 hectare of the Wet Tropics Rainforest than in the whole of the United Kingdom 🌴🌴
📸 @Queensland #exploreTNQ #explorecairnsGBR #thisisqueensland #seeaustralia #portdouglasdaintree
