The 9th IAPCO Annual Survey 2015 produced no surprises. With the economic turnaround, and the recession hopefully confined to history, IAPCO members were busy in 2015, organising an average of 113 events per member.
Events are one of the biggest contributors to the sector, particularly in Joburg, attracting people from all over the country and the continent to the City.
Shanghai is one of the first cities in China to have implemented a 144-hour visa-free policy, which allows foreign visitors to arrive to and depart from the metropolis via its airports, cruise terminals and train stations without a visa, providing their overall stay is within the six-day limit.
“The Big Conversations You Need to Have to Keep Your Meetings Alive” is the title and focus of the 2016 Association Meetings Conference that will be held in London a day prior to The Meetings Show on Monday 13th June at Church House Westminster.
It has been more than a decade since the government of Hangzhou set the goal of turning the Zhejiang Province capital into an international meetings hub. With the news of G20 combined with the announcement that Hangzhou will host the 2022 Asian Games, the city is poised to take its place on the world stage.
Five reasons to fall in love with MICE activities in Taiwan
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According to MEET TAIWAN, MICE activities in Taiwan were attended by a total of 202,000 foreign participants in 2015, which was a 7% increase from 2014 and 13.5% from 2013.
Edinburgh’s international reputation in medical and paediatric science has received a significant boost, with the announcement that the city has won the bid to host an influential world congress in 2021.
As part of the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre’s CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities, the venue has established her own 112sqm rooftop garden to cultivate herbs and spices.
New partnerships with SITE and SACEOS strengthens conference programme
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ITB Asia 2016, the ‘Trade Show for the Asian Travel Market’, will showcase its strongest meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions (MICE) line up to-date with a full day conference programme dedicated to the growing sector.
Malta is launching a new brand focusing on MICE. Conventions Malta aims to promote the islands as a destination for conference and incentive travel, as well as association business.
The City of Naples has won the bid to host the World Tunnelling Congress to be held May, 2019. With an expected participation of 2,000, this is a prominent international appointment bringing the most talented engineers in the field to Napoli.
Located in northern France, Lille is highly accessible, within easy rich of three international airports and two train stations with Eurostar, Thalys and TGV stops, all servicing Belgium and England.
Kiwan Lee is the Director, Tourism Policy Division, of Seoul Metropolitan Government. Despite some difficulties last year, he shares here his ambitions for Seoul as a MICE destination.
if NewcastleGateshead has been on the meetings map like never before in recent history, it might be because of its super strong Ambassador Programme, which helped the destination win many association bids.
Flanders Meeting and Convention Center Antwerp, open for business November 2016, with 7 significant events already secured plans its Grand Opening function in May 2017.
At the annual IMEX Tradeshow in Frankfurt, the Austria Center Vienna was announced as the overall winner of the 2016 Digital Infrastructure Award. The award now in its third year celebrates best in class Digital Infrastructure in meetings venues around the world.
Dr Carolyn Lam is a Senior Consultant of the National Heart Centre, Singapore and Associate Professor of Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Academic Clinical Program, and Chairperson of the Asia Pacific Association of Women’s Cardiovascular Disease.
AEG Ogden Group Director of Convention Centres, Geoff Donaghy, has been recognised for his outstanding service to the meetings industry with an IMEX Academy Award for the Asia Pacific region overnight at the 14th annual IMEX Gala Dinner in Frankfurt.
Showcasing the tremendous possibilities of Oman as a destination and the Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre (OCEC) as the world’s convention venue of choice, the OCEC, in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism, participated at premier events industry exhibition; IMEX Frankfurt 2016.
How to manage a particular fast turnover of the association board
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As a non-profit association, headquartered in Brussels, BEST provides students several services, such as engineering competitions, extra-curricular education and career support, and reaches about 1.7 million students spread over 96 universities in 33 countries.
The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) is set to host the first ever Dublin Tech Summit on the 15 and 16 February 2017 which is expected to attract 10,000 delegates to the city over the course of the two-day event.
After Barcelona in 2015 and Copenhagen in 2016, Frankfurt am Main is the chosen destination for AC Forum’s next annual general assembly, which runs from 19 to 21 January 2017. AC Forum is Europe’s only networking platform for scientific associations with in-house congress staff.
Sarawak Convention Bureau (SCB) intends to raise Sarawak's Business Events sector to international frontiers of competitiveness with a series of educational workshops through its national BESarawak campaign.
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