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!
The launch of the new Metropolitan Convention Centre in Quito has been officially announced. This is a strategic project for the Ecuadorean capital, which will give further impetus to the emerging “Parque Bicentenario” district, along with the Metro Station and the Amazonas Avenue Boulevard.
En el antiguo terminal del aeropuerto Mariscal Sucre, se realizó el lanzamiento oficial del proyecto del nuevo Centro de Metropolitano de Convenciones “Ciudad de Quito”, proyecto estratégico para la capital que potenciará a la nueva centralidad en la que se constituirá la zona del Parque Bicentenario, complementado con la estación Intermodal del Metro y el Bulevar de la Av. Amazonas.
The World Forum will be the location for the European trade fair ‘The Unmanned Systems Expo’ (TUSExpo) once again next year. The second edition will be held from 2 to 4 February 2016 in The Hague.
Brisbane is proving to be a popular business events destination for Australian associations after two peak industry bodies announced they would stage their 2016 national conferences in the city.
For the first time ICCA publishes country and city rankings by estimated total number of participants in 2014, as part of its public abstract of the ICCA statistics report, aimed at international associations.
La Cité Nantes Events Center has produced a new promotion film to present the Nantes destination and its congress centre to event organisers at regional, national and international level.
A well-known Indonesian insurance company incentive group of 1,150 participants visited Tokyo May 13-17, 2015 to enjoy the traditional and modern spots of the Japanese capital, as well as local cuisine and shopping at world-famous districts.
In this issue: a portrait of the the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), a focus on the latest ICCA statistics, an in-depth interview with Nikki Walker, from MCI, the UIA's thoughts on New Membership Models... and more.
Since July 8 major events organisers and promoters planning events in Auckland from 2016/17 onwards have an opportunity to apply for sponsorship with an annual application window.
Meet Puerto Rico has been awarded for the third time with the Destination Marketing Accreditation Program (DMAP) seal by Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI), in recognition of the destination marketing organization's (DMO) commitment to industry excellence and meeting the industry standard for performance and accountability of DMOs around the world.
In October, Ibiza will hold the 2nd International Nightlife Congress, bringing together business people from all over the world to give night time leisure activities a more professional status by sharing performance protocols and experiences which will help to improve the sector's image.
La Asociación Internacional de Ocio Nocturno celebrará en Ibiza el II Congreso Internacional de Ocio Nocturno.re el planeta que tiene como objetivo profesionalizar el ocio nocturno y compartir protocolos de actuación y experiencias que ayuden a mejorar la imagen del sector.
The United Nations General Assembly welcomed on December 2015 the offer by the Government of Ecuador to host the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), and decided that the conference will be held in Quito starting October 17th 2016.
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