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.
On 27 November 2013, Dubai, the city that over the last 40 years or so has probably best incarnated the progressive spirit of Expos, overtook Yekaterinburg (Russia), İzmir (Turkey) and São Paulo (Brazil) to win the right to host the 2020 World Expo – the first-ever to be organized and staged in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENA & SA) region.
The Shenyang New World EXPO (EXPO) is only days from its special opening. The new venue will host China’s Annual National Planning Conference 2016 (ANPC) on 24-26 September.
Aleš Šinkovec, Practice Director, Energy and Environment, LOGOS Public Affairs, discusses how Expo-2017 Astana is an opportunity for the European Union and its Member States.
Budapest has been enjoying a growing popularity of large international association and corporate events, exhibitions. HUNGEXPO, the city’s largest multifunctional venue has taken its share of the growing MICE business.
Findings from the latest Economic Impact Study on the contribution of Hong Kong’s exhibition industry to the economy in 2014, released today, contained encouraging news for the industry and for Hong Kong.
Sao Paulo Expo will be the largest and most modern exhibition center, Congress and Conventions in Latin America with an area of 100 thousand square meters built in record time.
The UFI Board of Directors has elected Mr Corrado Peraboni, CEO from Fiera Milano Congressi, as the President of UFI for the 2017/2018 term. The decision was made at a board meeting during UFI’s Open Seminar in Basel, Switzerland.
In this second article of our World Expo series, Matteo Pederzoli puts Astana on the map and wonders how associations, like the ones you, our dear readers, represent, are planning to get involved in the 2017 Expo. There seems to be a lot of ways to do so.
To celebrate the launch of the brand new Headquarters, we have tried to give you, our readers, some food for thought. Designed as a series of articles, it will focus, this year, on World Expos. As you will read, the connections between associations and Expos are numerous and varied. But what’s in it exactly for associations?
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