The Montréal aerospace industry contributes to the city’s reputation as a premier business destination through major events held at the Palais des congrès de Montréal. In the last five years, the Palais has hosted 16 regional, national and international aerospace events, which have attracted 18,500 delegates to the city.
Singapore is well known for its world-class facilities, political stability, efficient infrastructure, and a vibrant business environment, making it second easiest place to do business in, according to the World Bank. Apart from its culture of efficiency, what makes Singapore unique as a MICE destination is its cutting-edge innovation and creativity as well as a strong presence of thought leadership in a knowledge-intensive environment.
Tshwane blends – perhaps like no other African destination - the depth of local culture and character with world-class technology and infrastructure – all against a beautiful backdrop of natural splendour and architectural diversity.
From March 5 to 7, the Riga Tourism Development Bureau and the Latvian Investment and Development Agency’s Tourism Department will organize the largest ever international Meetings industry forum ever to be held in the Latvian capital - MCE Central & Eastern Europe Forum. Participating in the forum will be 125 business tourism representatives from 17 European countries.
According to the Czech Statistical Office data, Prague welcomed 4,426 conferences in the collective accommodation establishments in 2016 which is one-third of all events held in the Czech Republic.
The Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) today launched a new campaign titled, “MICE Magnificent Themes” to promote Thailand as a unique destination for incentive travel for the fast-growing Oceania market.
The Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre’s focus on the Australian market is bearing fruit with five Australia-linked clients choosing the Centre as their ‘venue of choice’ this year.
The Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) has retained its 5-star status after receiving the highest grading by the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa for a meetings, exhibitions and special events (MESE) organisation. The centre received an overall score of 98%.
The Centre has already successfully received its ISO9001 Quality Management, ISO22000 Food Safety and ISO14001 Environmental Sustainability certifications, making it the only convention centre in Africa to hold all four of these certifications
Repeated events have grown to represent 46.4% of the total number of events and 57% of turnover, a clear indicator of a successful strategy and an even brighter future.
In conjunction with World Cancer Day 2017, the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre is honoured to announce that it will be the venue of choice for the Union for International Cancer Control’s (UICC) World Cancer Congress 2018. Themed “Strengthen. Inspire. Deliver” and hosted by the National Cancer Society Malaysia (NCSM), the Congress will take place from 1 to 4 October 2018 and is expected to attract 3,000 cancer and health professionals from over 135 countries.
In preparation for the Shenyang New World EXPO soft opening on March 1st, EXPO's senior staff completed final training at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center in December.
“Last year showed that the measures we took in the Asiatic region in association with the German Convention Bureau and the Frankfurt Convention Bureau are working,” says Johann Thoma, Vice President of Guest Events of Messe Frankfurt since 2016. In 2015, Congress Frankfurt only welcomed one Asian event organiser whilst, in 2016, there were nine conferences with an Asian background. They came from China, Korea and Thailand.
Radisson Golf & Convention Center Batam has opened its doors and is one of the first international hotel brands to launch a convention center and golf course in Batam Center.
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