During the launch of Kenya’s inaugural MICE forum in East and Central Africa, cabinet secretary for East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism, Phyllis Kandie said, “For the first time, Kenya will host the 10th World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial conference in December 2015. We have also won the bids to host the world conference on PR forums in November 2015."
Zimbabwe has been awarded the African Rising Star Country Branding Award from Bloom Consulting, a Spain-based company that focuses on strategy consulting and specialises in nation branding.
Yokohama will host an event to promote a better understanding of people with reading and writing disabilities in June next year as a prelude to the 2020 World Dyslexia Forum to be held in Japan.
Se esperan 1280 personas especialistas del sector, provenientes de 156 países, a la Asamblea número 21 de la Organización Mundial de Turismo. El evento se realizará del 12 al 17 de septiembre en Plaza Mayor, Medellín.
BTR Liverpool, organisers of the increasingly popular Medicash Santa Dash Liverpool, was officially presented with the Santaz trophy on Monday, 17 August, by the organiser of the Great Santa Run in Las Vegas.
The Adelaide Convention Bureau, in advising its end of financial year result, has announced it has won the rights for Adelaide to host 119 national and international conferences valued at $150.6m.
Taipei is the select host city for the 2021 Rotary International Convention (RIC), an annually rotating Rotary International global event. It is expected that 36,000 Rotarians, including over 10,000 global attendees, will join the event.
More than 3000 members of the international space industry, agencies and academia are expected to converge on Jerusalem for the 66th annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2015 that will take place October 12-16th.
In Portugal, there are several national monuments accessible for holding events. And demand even led to the creation of the law decree nº8356/2014, which regulates access, informs the rules and indicates the rental value of each venue.
Interel’s Association Management Practice has achieved accreditation by the AMC Institute (the global trade association for the association management industry)- becoming one of only two businesses outside of North America to do so.
Aloysius Arlando, Chief Executive Officer of SingEx, the management company of Singapore EXPO Convention and Exhibition Centre and the first Asian to be elected to the AIPC (International Association of Congress Centres) board in 2012, has been named Vice-President.
On Friday 31st July in Kuala Lumpur a Swiss delegation team attended a meeting where the host city for 2020’s Youth Olympic Games (Y.O.G.) was announced… and Lausanne emerged victorious!
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