The Aotearoa Resort Trade Convention and Exhibition (AHICE), the most important and most influential lodge funding and operations summit within the nation, returns to Christchurch on Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 August 2026, as New Zealand’s lodge sector enters considered one of its most dynamic intervals of progress, funding and growth.
Hosted by HM Journal and Resort Council Aotearoa (HCA), AHICE Aotearoa 2026 will happen at Te Pae Christchurch Conference Centre, drawing over 500 of Australasia’s main lodge homeowners, operators, consultants, and suppliers for 2 days of networking, panel periods, hotelier Q&As and keynote discussions shaping the way forward for New Zealand’s lodge business.
In a present of main endorsement for the occasion, AHICE Aotearoa 2026 has the help of over 75 sponsors and supporters – headlined by Principal Companions Accor, Agilysys and EVT and Supporting Accomplice Tourism New Zealand – and the occasion has attracted sponsorship from main world and native lodge chains and suppliers alike.
HCA Strategic Director, James Doolan, stated the convention has earned its place because the important gathering for New Zealand’s lodge sector.
“AHICE Aotearoa has turn into essentially the most influential convention for the lodge sector, protecting funding, operations and coverage,” he stated.
“The connections made right here have actual penalties for New Zealand’s lodge sector and the tourism business as an entire.”
The convention will characteristic keynote addresses from distinguished leaders and specialists, panel periods protecting subjects corresponding to traders and builders outlook, regional progress, white-label administration, business tendencies, design improvements, lodge expertise and extra.
“New Zealand’s lodge sector is at an inflection level with new provide and renewed investor confidence and we sit up for bringing the business collectively at Te Pae Christchurch to sort out the alternatives and challenges that can affect the subsequent chapter for New Zealand tourism,” stated AHICE World Conferences Group President, James Wilkinson.
“We now have a improbable speaker line-up led by world and native executives, with executives flying to Christchurch from Singapore, Auckland, Sydney, Wellington, Brisbane, Queenstown and extra, and the occasion guarantees to supply the lodge business with the most recent knowledge, tendencies, evaluation and what to anticipate for 2026 and past.”
The fifth annual AHICE Aotearoa builds on the success of earlier occasions, establishing itself because the premier gathering for the nation’s lodge business.
It’s an extension of the Asia Pacific occasion held in Adelaide, which was attended by a file 1,600 delegates from over 50 nations, making it the most important lodging business occasion within the APAC area.
A restricted variety of tickets and sponsorships are nonetheless out there for AHICE Aotearoa, nonetheless the occasion is already near promoting out.
