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Vivid Sydney 2024: A boost for local businesses

A record-breaking 201 businesses, from The Rocks to Hollywood Quarter, have registered their special Vivid Sydney experiences, menus, packages, and tours through the Vivid Sydney Local Business Program.
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The Local Business Program offers businesses a chance to join the festival’s vibrant community and benefit from the increased visitation brought by Australia’s largest festival. The program encourages festival-goers to visit, shop, or dine locally and supports businesses with promotion on the Vivid Sydney website and professionally installed assets to attract customers.

As part of the NSW Government’s commitment to supporting the local business community within the event footprint, the Vivid Sydney Local Business Program has helped vividsydney.com generate over 380,000 industry and event partner leads during the 2023 festival campaign period.

Vivid Sydney 2024 Local Business - Copyright Destination NSW - Patrons enjoying a night out at Machine Hall during Vivid 2024
Vivid Sydney 2024 Local Business - Copyright Destination NSW - Patrons enjoying a night out at Machine Hall during Vivid 2024

Participating businesses providing unique experiences for Vivid Sydney newcomers and returning visitors include:

  • Sydney Harbour Kayaks: Offering evening kayaking tours to view the Vivid Sydney lights from the water.
  • Hickson House: Featuring illuminating projections, exclusive gin tastings, and an immersive dark room experience on Friday and Saturday nights.
  • Disco Peeps Au: Leading guests on a singing and dancing walking tour through installations in Darling Quarter, Barangaroo, and Circular Quay.
  • Mutha Runner: Hosting ‘Run Vivid,’ a 6.5km social run club that forms a moving light installation with participants wearing neon-colored running vests.

This program exemplifies the NSW Government’s dedication to bolstering local businesses and enhancing the Vivid Sydney experience for all.

Find more details on the Local Business Program and exclusive deals during Vivid Sydney 2024 at vividsydney.com.

Steve Cox and Mikey Enright declarations

Vivid Sydney brings hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city from across Australia and around the world to experience the Southern Hemisphere’s largest festival of light, music, ideas and food.

I am so pleased more than 200 businesses have registered to work with Vivid Sydney to ensure their business shines brightly to so many potential customers visiting the festival to have an unforgettable experience.

Vivid Sydney plays a key role in driving visitation to Sydney and supporting the NSW visitor economy and we want to ensure all our visitors enjoy their Vivid Sydney experience and leave wanting to return for even more of Sydney’s hospitality.

Vivid Sydney attracts huge crowds of consumers to the Rocks precinct. Hickson House has had great exposure through the Local Business Program and we’ve been able to elevate the experiences to them.

About Vivid Sidney

Vivid Sydney is Australia’s largest festival celebrating creativity, innovation and technology, and transforms Sydney into a kaleidoscope of colour and events for 23 nights. Staged for its 14th year in 2024, Vivid Sydney will bring together mesmerising displays from the world’s brightest light artists, exhilarating live music performances, deep-dive discussions with thought leaders, and innovative experiences from food creatives. Vivid Sydney is owned, managed and produced by Destination NSW, the NSW Government’s tourism and major events agency.

About Destination NSW

Destination NSW is the champion and voice for the visitor economy within the NSW Government. Spearheading a whole-of-government approach to visitor economy growth, Destination NSW influences and shapes the visitor economy through strategic research, policy and thought leadership, stakeholder engagement and consultation, commercial partnerships and investment in visitor experiences, business support, marketing and events. Destination NSW is also the major investor in Business Events Sydney (BESydney) for the purpose of securing more international and domestic conventions, incentive travel reward programs, corporate events and exhibitions.

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