Business, Events, Conferences and Retreats
Business Retreats Australia's highly personal, concierge style service, will make planning your next conference or event quick, easy, and stress-free.
Our extensive network of venues across the Asia-Pacific includes large and boutique hotels, resorts, conference centres, restaurants, private homes, and everything in between. And, we can assist with anything and everything else you need to make your event perfect – including catering arrangements, activities, speakers, equipment or furniture and styling.
Business Events
Our experience spans all types of business events, from product launches to workshops, seminars, awards nights, corporate events, exhibitions, marketing activations, fundraising events and more.
Celebrations
From corporate parties and dinners to hosting clients or investors, marking milestones and anniversaries, recognising achievements and end of year parties, we will find the perfect venue for your celebration.
Business Conferences
Whether you are hosting a conference for dozens, hundreds or even thousands, Business Retreats Australia will help you find the ideal venue with the facilities you need for your conference.
Business Retreats
Let us find you the ideal location, setting and venue to unite and strengthen your team, support strategic planning and innovation, boost morale and cohesion and improve wellbeing.
We save you time + money
No cost to you
Our service comes at no cost to you. As booking agents, venues pay us a commission. But rest assured, our commission is not added to the price.
We guarantee our pricing will always be the same or lower than booking directly with the venue. You see, our booking volume and strong relationships with venues often allow us to negotiate discounted rates on your behalf.
Responsive & timely service
As a boutique booking agency, we pride ourselves on providing a level of service care and attention that others simply can't deliver and promise a 24 hour or less response time.
We can promise this because of our intimate knowledge of locations and venues across Australia, New Zealand, and the Asia-Pacific, experience and the relationships we hold with providers.
About us
For more than twenty years, Business Retreats Australia has helped companies and organisations find and book the ideal venue for their events, conferences, retreats, and celebrations.
Owner, Katarina Cobain has been the face of Business Retreats Australia for over two decades and continues to work hand in hand with clients to plan their business events.
Having spent her professional life specialising in tourism, Katarina purchased Business Retreats Australia in 2002. Her care, attention to detail and passion have seen Business Retreats Australia become a highly regarded and trusted event partner of some of Australia’s largest and most recognised companies.
Client Stories
We have the pleasure of working with some Australia's largest companies and most well known brands.
Toyota
'The leg work is done. The team know the venues and they also know what we need. It makes everything easy, and the service is always excellent.'
AMP Services Ltd
'Business Retreats Australia provides essential, important groundwork for venue locations. A wealth of knowledge and options that we wouldn't have or would spend many precious hours finding what you already know about'
Australia Post
'Business Retreats Australia was very easy to communicate with, very accommodating and [were] able to comply with the brief of the client'
Toyota Australia
‘Business Retreats has greatly streamlined my venue selection process for meetings and private dinners. Whenever I need to find a suitable venue, I reach out to our venue genie, Katarina. With just one phone call or email, Katarina gathers all the necessary information about our requirements. In a matter of days, she provides me with a comprehensive spreadsheet listing available options, complete with their prices, website links, and photos. This efficient process has significantly eased my workload and ensured that we have a variety of excellent venues to choose from.’
Kubota Australia
‘I’ve been working with Business Retreats for a while now. They are reliable, fast, trustworthy and make the time-consuming search process seamless. They make sure the venue is fully equipped with everything we require, ensuring that all our needs for each event are satisfied for our meetings and conferences. They are keen to receive genuine feedback after each event to enhance their services and make future improvements to the venue.’
Belle Property Group
‘Business Retreats is on my and our events team’s speed dial for offsite events and conferences. We’ve booked many different venues with their help, from brand new hotels to luxury houses, and they have on many occasions saved us time and money. We love the personal and always-there human element of the service, even when we are asking for a last-minute bespoke dinner venue.’
Cengage Australia
‘As someone who is not a full-time events or meeting planner, we use Business Retreats because it saves us time – especially all of the back and forth emails to check pricing and availability with multiple venues to obtain three or more quotes to compare. Katarina always brings something new to the table, like a new venue we didn’t know existed or an off-site dinner venue idea I would have never thought of. I’m one of those horrible clients that after checking pricing in Melbourne will say “can we also check in Brisbane?” I can confirm her patience is infinite.’
Hunter Douglas
‘Katarina always found us a venue that caters for our needs helping facilitate to the success of our conferences.’
Let us help you plan your next business event
