Tourism Australia launches WeChat Mini Program to attract Chinese event planners

London, UK - July 31, 2018: The buttons of the app WeChat, surrounded by Gmail, Google Drive, Google and other apps on the screen of an iPhone.

Tourism Australia has launched its first WeChat Mini Program dedicated to raising awareness and preference for Australia as a business events destination amongst event planners in Greater China.

The program, led by Tourism Australia’s dedicated business events unit, Business Events Australia (BEA), builds on the organisation’s existing digital presence in China including its WeChat channel and dedicated Chinese website.

WeChat Mini Programs are ‘sub applications’ within the popular social media channel which provide additional opportunities to maintain audience engagement with daily ‘push’ messaging, account subscriptions and two-way communication functionality.

The new Mini Program will see Tourism Australia as one of only two national tourism organisations with a dedicated business events Mini Program worldwide.

The BEA WeChat Mini Program will act as an information hub featuring inspiring content on key Australian business events destinations, experiences, products, program suggestions and success stories.

The Mini Program will provide business event customers with useful research and planning tools. It will also facilitate information sharing and conversations between Chinese event planners and the in-market BEA team.

“Tourism Australia’s new WeChat Mini Program builds on our digital activity in China,” said Penny Lion, executive general manager of events at Tourism Australia.

“It will be seamlessly integrated with Business Events Australia’s dedicated Chinese website, whilst extending awareness and preference of Australia as a business events destination by engaging with target audiences in a digital space they’re active in.

“Prior to the pandemic, Greater China was the largest business events market for Australia by spend, injecting around $470 million in 2019 alone. Keeping connected with the Chinese events industry is a key part of Business Events Australia’s COVID-19 recovery strategy.”

There are over 1.2 billion users on WeChat each month, spending an average of 90 minutes per day on the platform.

In addition to being an instant messaging app, WeChat provides opportunities for organisations to engage with audiences through daily push messages and account subscriptions.


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