RACV MARINE 2020 MELBOURNE BOAT SHOW CANCELLED

RACV MARINE 2020 MELBOURNE BOAT SHOW CANCELLED
Updated: 30/03/2020 1:30 pm

With regret, the Board and Staff at BIAV advise that for 2020 the RACV Marine Melbourne Boat Show will not take place.
 
This, as you will all be well aware, follows several weeks of close monitoring of the COVID-19 situation, extensive consultation with industry, and also with government and our venue MCEC.
 
We thank everyone for their support of the Show over many years including this year, and for your patience as this decision process played out. For the Show’s 60th iteration however, we will have to look forward to celebrating that in 2021.
 
Meanwhile BIAV will –

  • Refund all exhibitor deposits and payments in a timely manner. Please complete and submit the Melbourne Boat Show Refund Form to help expediate this process. 

  • Help members to source and secure financial support to assist them through this crisis. Click Here to see a list of Federal and State Government Stimulus Packages on the BIAV site.

  • Work with government authorities to decipher what must be kept functioning from a marine infrastructure perspective, and as the Shut-down stages progress, what is allowed, and indeed what is beneficial, in terms of recreational boating.

  • At the appropriate time do all we can to highlight the benefits of boating, the self and small group isolation virtues of boating, and do everything else possible to re-build interest in and demand for boating.

  • Anything else we can so as to support members and the boating community.

If you have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact CEO Steve Walker on stevew@biavic.com.au.

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