Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (BCEC) General Manager, Bob O’Keeffe was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in this year’s Australia Day Awards for outstanding services to tourism and business in Queensland.
On Thursday 28 February and Friday 1 March 2019, international association professionals will meet for the European Association Summit. It will be held in Brussels, Europe's top conference city. The theme of the EAS this year is share and co-create.
Team FMCCA very proud with the achievement of its CCO Anja Stas
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Only four years after joining the meeting industry Anja Stas, CCO of Flanders Meeting and Convention Center Antwerp, joins the ICCA board as co-chair for the Sector Venues. She was elected with a vast majority of the votes.
Innovative, accessible, multi-functional, modular: the new exhibitions park and convention centre of Toulouse (France) is worthy of a name that matches the quality of its facilities.
More than 60% of waste was saved at the first completely sustainable event which took place at the Prague Congress Centre (PCC) to the occasion of awarding the “TOP Responsible Company”.
Basel is Switzerland’s prime location for exhibitions and conferences with state-of-the-art infrastructure by architects Herzog & de Meuron. In 2019, Basel will be further strengthening its role as an international congress destination.
SingEx Venues, the venue management company operating Singapore EXPO Convention and Exhibition Centre and its convention wing MAX Atria since 1999, has won the tender bid to continue operating Singapore’s largest Meetings, Incentives, Convention and Exhibition (MICE) venue for up to 10 years, starting from January 2019.
Australia’s premier convention, exhibition and entertainment venue first to launch a Reconciliation Action Plan alongside prestigious artwork commission
The Malaysia International Trade & Exhibition Centre (MITEC) and Guangdong Tanzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center (GICEC), China sealed an exclusive collaborative partnership to further contribute in creating an economic impact through the business events industry.
The CCD will host the European Congress of Immunology (ECI) in Dublin in 2024. Dublin, as an exciting and accessible destination, with an active Irish association – Irish Society for Immunology (ISI) - and a tradition of immunology research, proved to be a prime location for ECI 2024, having beaten off competition from Madrid, Florence, Prague and Geneva.
The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) announced today that it is to host Thrive Festival, Ireland’s newest premier health and lifestyle event on 30 and 31 March 2019.
From putting finishing touches on its $397 million redevelopment to welcoming record numbers of visitors through its doors and playing host to some of Adelaide’s largest ever business events, it’s been a milestone year for the Adelaide Convention Centre (ACC).
International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) is committed to delivering positive impacts for its community. Its partnership with the Exhibition and Event Association of Australasia (EEAA) to present the second annual 2018 Global Exchange Oration demonstrates its commitment to supporting local industry knowledge exchange.
Over 250 Engineering and Product Design specialists will meet at the Technology and Innovation Centre in Glasgow to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the International Conference on Engineering & Product Design Education.
The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) has been chosen to host the International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC) in 2026. Organisers successfully bid against Moscow and Brisbane to bring the conference to Dublin. It is expected to attract up to 1,500 delegates to the city.
HQ discusses with Simon Burgess, General Manager, Adelaide Convention Centre & Gavin Robertson, Executive Chef, Adelaide Convention Centre about the venue's new campaign Honest Goodness.
International Convention Centre Sydney’s (ICC Sydney) Culinary Services reaped praise overnight at the New South Wales Savour Australia Restaurant & Catering HOSTPLUS Awards for Excellence. The venue took home the 2018 Sydney Metropolitan Function/Convention Centre Caterer as well as the highly coveted, Sydney Metropolitan Caterer of the Year.
Dubai Association Centre (DAC), a joint initiative of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) and Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), is to host the city’s first-ever Association Leaders Getaway.
In a bidding process spanning all of the European Union, Italian furniture manufacturer Poltrona Frau has won the contract for supplying the fixed seating for Auditoriums 1 and Z in the new CCH – Congress Center Hamburg.
International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) has today announced more than a million plastic water bottles have been saved through its partnership with Sydney Water, reflecting the venue’s ongoing commitment to reducing its ecological footprint.
The new event space is anticipated to generate an additional 74,000 international visitors annually, resulting in an annual $167 million boost to the Victorian economy.
The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) has retained the title of ‘Europe's Leading Meetings & Conference Centre’ at the 25th annual World Travel Awards in Greece.
Malaysia prepares to welcome the World Federation of Hemophilia Congress 2020
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Malaysia will be the focus of the medical industry again in two years, as the country prepares to welcome the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) Congress 2020. Leading healthcare experts from 125 countries are expected to gather at the WFH Congress 2020 from 14 to 18 June 2020 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.
Hamburg and the CCH – Congress Center Hamburg – have won the bid to host the 2021 annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).
In conjunction with World Environment Day 2018, close to 60 of theKuala Lumpur Convention Centre’s team members spent the morning planting a variety of flora around the venue. In line with this year’s theme, ‘Beating Plastic Pollution’,the planting materials used were made from recycled plastic.
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