Michael Matthews

Michael is Chief Executive Officer at the Canberra Convention Bureau (CCB) joining the organisation in October 2015.
Michael joined CCB from Canada, most recently as Executive Director for Meetings & Conventions Prince Edward Island (M&CPEI), a not-for-profit membership based organisation representing the Province for Marketing, Sales and Product Development. Previous roles encompassed hotel sales, operations and food and beverage in hotel brands that include Delta Hotels & Resorts, IHG, Marriott, Renaissance and Fairmont, in Canada, Australia and the UK.
Michael is Treasurer for Association of Australian Convention Bureaux (AACB) and has more than 25 years of industry experience including tourism education with an MBA from the University of Guelph, Canada (2006) and earlier Tourism studies at Ryde TAFE (1994). Michael’s MBA major paper studied the impact mega-events such as the Olympics have on the host cities lodging sector and tourism infrastructure.
He contributes via Tourism Leaders Forum (TLF) in Canberra and prior to commencing at CCB, Michael was part of the Executive with the Destination Marketing Association of Canada (DMAC) and has held several marketing, industry and curriculum advisory roles.
Active outdoors and a runner with several 100km under his belt, he’s in it for the long haul.