Year in Focus Delivering world-class events is what we do. Boosting visitation and strengthening the Territory’s economy is what drives us. Over the last 18 months we’ve seen the global events The latter part of 2020 was chaotic, with lockdowns industry go through change after change after change frequently imposed around the country. Despite this, due to COVID-19. Rather than take our foot off the we capitalised on our resilience and turbocharged our pedal,we went up a few gears. We assessed our event delivery model and business practices. strategy, refocused, accommodated new health and safety restrictions, and went full speed ahead. Our primary focus was our event guests, ensuring their safety and wellbeing, and that they had the best We led the way in Australia by delivering back-to-backexperience possible. We worked closely with multiple events, and we emerged stronger after each one. The stakeholders to ensure allevents were COVID-safe eyes of the nation – and sometimes the world - were and introduced a range of world-class risk-reduction on us as we delivered 8 main events and supported 32 measures to help festival goers at BASSINTHEGRASS events in 2020-21. attend safely. In short, it has been a year of accelerated growth for NTMEC and a coming-of-age as we continue to move forward on the road to transformation. 16