Without a doubt, Japan has been hot these days, and so has Sapporo. The city’s announcement of its intention to bid for another Winter Olympics came as no surprise, with the country’s popularity constantly rising.
The Calabar International Convention Centre [Calabar ICC] continued to register milestones in the international meetings industry when the ICCA board, sitting at the Headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands, formally approved the application of Calabar ICC to join ICCA.
FIEXPO 2015, 8th edition of the Latin American and Caribbean Meetings and Incentive Exhibition, took place from June 1st to 3rd in Lima, Peru. The show gathered Convention Bureaus, Conference Centres and Tourism Boards of most countries in Latin America.
The 15th World Conference Cities and Ports is set to be held in Rotterdam in 2016. The conference, organised by the AIVP (Association Internationale Villes et Ports), is concerned with the transformation of old ports and the social issues that face many of today’s port cities.
Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre (Suntec Singapore) was recently awarded the UFI 2015 Award during the UFI London Catering Tour in April 2015.
Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC) hosted a meeting of its potential associations, corporate clients and trade press on the sidelines of IMEX Frankfurt 2015.
IFEMA acaba de iniciar la comercialización de la 14º edición del Salón Internacional de Equipos, Productos y Servicios Dentales, EXPODENTAL 2016, organizado en colaboración con la Federación Española de Empresas de Tecnología Sanitaria, FENIN, y que tendrá lugar del 10 al 12 de marzo de 2016, en la FERIA DE MADRID.
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Continuous education is of paramount importance in our industry. The problem is that trainings can be pricey. That’s why the publisher of Headquarters, MIM Europe Magazine and www.meetingmediagroup.com recently launched the Meeting Media Group Foundation.
The new Florence Convention Bureau website has been launched. The main innovations are the new layout that improves usability and the new approach to the presentation of Members’ competencies. The new website has been realized by a member of the Florence Convention Bureau, Uplink Web Agency specialized in providing web services.
Sunny weather, conveniently located conference venues, famous museums and elegant stores… Few cities can boast such suitable conditions as Madrid for hosting professional meetings, conferences, conventions and incentive trips. A business trip to Madrid seems less like hard work than most.
Just 39 per cent of event planners are creative thinkers despite the majority believing they have a creative approach to their work, according to new research released today by London & Partners.
In order to encourage organisers of international multi-day conferences to choose Holland as their destination, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, NBTC Holland Marketing, and some twenty partners from the convention industry set up the Pre-financing & Guarantee Fund (VGF) in the late 1980s. The VGF fund helps conference organisers to cover pre-conference expenses, and other financial risks.
Working for an organisation that carries the slogan ‘collaborating for a smarter world’, it will come as no surprise that I strongly believe in the importance of creating innovation synergies though partnerships.
ECM Vice-President for the Meetings Industry, Heike Mahmoud, explains the virtuous circle that European Cities Marketing members and the meetings industry create together.
Since its founding in 1992, Meeting Media Group, publisher of Headquarters Magazine (HQ), has been a trusted guide and voice for associations and the global MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) industry.