Cat Lovers Show forced to reschedule to 2022
Announcement from the Cat Lovers team
It is with great sadness to advise that we have had to reschedule the 2021 Cat Lovers Show again to Saturday 30 April and Sunday 1st May, 2022.
The Cat Lovers Show team has been working tirelessly over the past 6 months to develop a COVID Safe model that would provide our exhibitors, visitors and most importantly all the beautiful Cats, with a wonderful event experience within the current restrictions.
This morning the State Government announced that the Royal Exhibition Building and Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre will be acquisitioned to become COVID-19 vaccination hubs for the foreseeable future and this means our venue is no longer able to host the Cat Lovers Show in May. We were also unable to secure a permit to run the event with the number of visitors required to make it commercially viable in time, so for these reasons we had no other choice but to reschedule the event until next year.
The announcement has taken us by complete surprise and we first discovered this by reading the Herald Sun this morning so are extremely disappointed that we were not consulted prior to the decision being printed in the media. So many passionate cat lovers were looking forward to the 2021 event after the 2020 show was also cancelled due to Covid-19 and our Exhibitors and Sponsors are devastated they will not get to see your smiling faces again this year.
Shortly we will be announcing a Shop (for your kitty) Til' You Drop promotion that will be an 'online event' designed to help support our valued Exhibitors and Sponsors with a huge array of special offers on all the latest and greatest cat products and services to help you really spoil your puss!
Rest assured we will fight hard to keep the Cat Lovers Show alive, despite the ongoing challenges, and our team is more committed than ever to present an incredible show for all our fellow feline-fanatics in 2022.
We are also confident that the Covid-19 vaccine will have widespread penetration in the community by early next year and the State of Emergency will have been lifted so we can safely (and finally!) open the event on Saturday 30 April & Sunday 1st May, 2022.
We will be refunding the money for all tickets purchased to the 2021 event and ticketing refunds will be processed in the next 10 to 14 business days with tickets to the 2022 Show to go on sale in a few months.
Thanks in advance for your understanding and we hope you can continue to support Australia's favourite cat festival when it returns next year as it really has been a tough time for our clients, staff, suppliers, our business and the entire event sector here in Victoria.
Paws sincerely,
the Cat Lovers Show team