Reed Travel Exhibitions has announced a global agreement designating oneworld® as its exclusive airline alliance partner for 19 events in 2016, including the Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo (AIME) in Melbourne, 23 – 24 February 2016.

From December 2015 visitors to AIME will be able to make flight reservations via www.oneworld.com/events for travel to and from AIME 2016 in Melbourne, Australia, and receive discounted fares for themselves and a companion. Visitors can fly on any oneworld member airline, including 15 of the world's leading carriers, serving more than 1,000 destinations in 150 plus countries.

Hosted by the Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB), the 24th annual AIME, will connect a global community of over 4,000 people for two powerful days of networking, education and business.

Ian Wainwright, Event Director – AIME, Reed Travel Exhibitions is delighted that this partnership with oneworld will bring significant benefits for visitors to AIME.

“This alliance will deliver a host of benefits for visitors to any of Reed Travel Exhibitions' 19 shows across the globe and will offer unprecedented opportunities for visitors from around the world to attend AIME 2016.

“Through this initiative, we are enabling a greater audience access to AIME, the largest event of its kind in Australia. Visitors to AIME have the opportunity to meet with a range of venues, suppliers, technology companies, agencies, convention bureaux and many more from across the globe - all under one roof.

“AIME is where inspiration begins, and an increase in international visitors will bolster global knowledge sharing, world-wide insights and support regional networking and development” said Mr Wainwright.

Members of any oneworld member airline frequent flyer programme will be able to take advantage of their usual privileges and benefits along the way – including earning miles/points and, for top tier cardholders and one companion each, the use any of the 650 plus airport lounges provided by the alliance's airlines the world over.

Booking codes for AIME via oneworld will be available via www.aime.com.au from December 2015.

Register to attend AIME for free. [https://www.infosalons.com.au/AIME16M/start.asp]

Tickets on the door are $25.

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Notes to editors:
Karen Bolinger, Chief Executive Officer, Melbourne Convention Bureau, and Ian Wainwright, Event Director - AIME, Reed Travel Exhibitions, are available for interview upon request via the media contacts listed below.

Asia-Pacific Incentives and Meetings Expo (AIME), 23 – 24 February 2016, Melbourne
AIME is where meetings, events and incentives industry decision makers meet for business adventures across Australia, Asia-Pacific and the rest of the globe. AIME is owned by the Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB), a business development organisation, with its core function to secure international and national conferences, incentive travel reward programs and other business events for the Australian state of Victoria.

AIME is managed by Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE), the world's leading provider of exhibitions in the travel and tourism industry, with a wide-ranging portfolio of 23 international events in 15 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa.

www.aime.com.au

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About oneworld
oneworld is an alliance of 15 of the world's leading airlines, committed to providing the highest level of service and convenience to frequent international travellers.  Its members include airberlin, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LAN Airlines, TAM Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Royal Jordanian, S7 Airlines and SriLankan Airlines, and around 30 affiliates.  As part of oneworld, they:

• Serve more a thousand airports in 150 plus countries, with 14,250 daily departures.
• Carry some 515 million passengers a year on a combined fleet of nearly 3,500 aircraft.
• Generate more than US$ 140 billion annual revenues.

oneworld member airlines work together to deliver consistently a superior, seamless travel experience, with special privileges and rewards for frequent flyers, including earning and redeeming miles and points across the entire alliance network.  Top tier cardholders (Emerald and Sapphire) enjoy access to more than 650 airport lounges and are offered extra baggage allowances. The most regular travellers (Emerald) can also use fast track security lanes at select airports.

oneworld is the world's most highly prized alliance, as the current holder of seven of the leading “best airline alliance” titles available in the various industry award schemes, including FlightStats' On-Time Performance Award 2014 for the second time running, Skytrax's World's Best Airline Alliance 2015 for the third year running and Business Traveller's 2015 Best Airline Alliance, also for the second year running.

About oneworld events
oneworld events is aimed at conferences, conventions, exhibitions and special events targeting a minimum of 100 international attendees. Since its launch two years ago, it has won contracts from organisers of more than 200 events, conventions and shows, taking place in almost 100 different locations worldwide, with combined attendees totalling half a million.

For event and convention organisers, oneworld events provides:

• An efficient  and user-friendly centralised process, with one set of terms and conditions covering travel on all oneworld member airlines that can be ready for acceptance just days after submitting the online request form.
• Attractive discounts for attendees on flights on oneworld member airlines.
• The chance for organisers to earn and redeem travel credits for flights on participating oneworld member airlines.
• Simple online access to real-time management reports 24/7, when using oneworld's own online booking tool, to help meet attendees' travel needs.
• A ready-to-use oneworld promotional toolkit to build attendee awareness.

For attendees, oneworld events offers:

• Attractive discounts on flights for attendees and one travel companion each.
• A user-friendly booking tool that displays the most convenient flights and multiple fare options from hundreds of departure points all over the world to the event or convention location.
• Travel on a collection of some of the world's leading airlines.
• Round-the-clock support, when booking via oneworld's own online booking tool, with the oneworld events helpdesk ready to help via email or phone.
• All the usual privileges and benefits afforded to members of any oneworld member airline frequent flyer programme.

For more details, see oneworld.com and oneworld.com/events