List your event on visitvictoria.com today

The benefits of listing with visitvictoria.com

Events Victoria is a centralised database to collect, store and distribute event listings for tourism, community and business events occurring in the state of Victoria. An event listing is self-authored – anyone can create a listing for their event.

Be found in more places.

Enter your event details once and your event listing will appear on many websites including Regional Tourism sites, accommodation providers, Local Government and attractions.

All event listings created on www.eventsvictoria.com must meet National ATDW Content Standards. When creating a listing please follow these guidelines

How much does it cost to list an event on visitvictoria?

Events – FREE

Eligible Events:

Events Victoria collects and distributes event listings for tourism, community and business events occurring in the state of Victoria.

Events Victoria does not publish events that may be perceived as favouring one side of a political issue, organisation or

person. These events could be protests, rallies or marches.

Further, a Leisure/Tourism event listing receives the extra benefit of being displayed on approximately 50 websites through the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse network (ATDW) www.atdw.com.au

Note: Business and Community events are only displayed through the www.eventsvictoria.com network.

If you have any questions about these guidelines or your listing, please contact the Support Desk on 1300 306 366 or

Email onlinecomments@tourism.vic.gov.au

Creating an event listing

Creating an event listing is easy and fast. Enter your event details on one screen and be finished in just a few minutes.

Event Description:

1. Use the example description as a guide.

2. The description should focus on the Event.

3. Use the event name in the first paragraph.

4. One idea per paragraph – space out your text.

5. No abbreviations or acronyms.

6. Use capitals for names only, such as Victoria or Bath Street, not for entire words like “FREE”

7. No special characters: @ # % * ( ) _ + >< … or any copyright, trademark or registered character.

8. Write in the Third Person. Do not use: I, me, my, we, our or us.

9. If available, include information about event time or entry cost. 10. Do not include venue address, dates, phone, website or email details in the description. These should go into their own fields.

Event Image:

1. Load images in their original format – the bigger the better. Images are automatically resized so don’t worry about adjusting them yourself.

2. Landscape format are best

3. No text/ writing over the photo

4. No collages (more than one photo merged into the one file)

5. No banners, logos, posters or flyers

6. No white background

7. Images must be in focus

8. Images must have good lighting

9. Images must have no copyright restrictions

Latest News

(March 2016)

my.visitvictoria.com has moved to www.atdw-online.com.au

All existing visitvictoria.com business and event listings have been migrated to www.atdw-online.com.au.

www.atdw-online.com.au is operated by the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse (ATDW). All State Tourism Organisations in Australia have moved to this new website.

CLICK HERE TO UPDATE OR CREATE A LISTING

Tourism Victoria will no longer refer to business and event listings as “visitvictoria.com listings”, instead these are now called “ATDW listings“.

ATDW listings will continue to appear on www.visitvictoria.com and all other ATDW distributors such as Regional Tourism Organisation websites.

All existing listing fees will continue. If you receive a visitvictoria.com listing through a membership with your Regional Tourism Organisation this will continue.