Corporate meeting planners now have extended opportunities to connect and share experiences during IMEX America this November. Two exclusive events will be held at the show which takes place November 9-11 in Las Vegas. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Tanzania is set to host the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Commission for Africa in October next year. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Parris Jordan, Chairman of the Caribbean Hotel Investment Conference & Operations Summit (CHICOS), enthusiastically announces that the 10th anniversary edition of CHICOS, scheduled for November 10-12, 2021, will be hosted at the Grand Hyatt in the highly-praised Baha Mar resort complex in Nassau, Bahamas. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Dr. Debbie Kristiansen appointed General Manager of the new Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Center, due to open in 2022. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
The Dunchurch Park Hotel in Dunchurch, a large village and civil parish on the southwestern outskirts of Rugby in Warwickshire, England, has cancelled all overnight stays, weddings, and events moving forward. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Business event professionals can learn how to become trend watchers and create products, services and campaigns tailored to future needs at IMEX Buzz Day. The free virtual experience taking place on Wednesday, September 15, has one eye firmly on the future with panel sessions covering what lies ahead in the world of business, events and technology. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
It is time to address the shortcomings of tourism industry that have resulted from the expansion in the last 50 years and transform tourism into a much greener, digital and inclusive industry. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2021 has reconfirmed that Dubai will host the largest in-person travel & tourism event in the world, since the onset of the pandemic last year. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online
The Korea Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions Bureau (KMB) of the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), aims to establish Korea as a premier destination for convention delegates and business travelers. As the government’s leading Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions Agency, the KMB has worked for nearly 40 years to provide a wide range of advice and assistance to those considering holding meetings in Korea. Korea is sending a strong message of welcome to India’s...
“Global Meetings Industry Day is important for our industry. It not only draws attention to the highly valuable role of the meetings sector worldwide, it also brings the hearts and minds of the global industry together.” Carina Bauer, CEO of the IMEX Group made this observation while reaffirming the Group’s full support for Global Meetings Industry Day which this year is on Thursday 6 April, before adding. “It is because we, as a Group, are committed to the advancement of the industry that we...
In the last year IACC has delivered education at European and US MPI events, including more recently at the Southern California Chapter Conference and MPI Philadelphia Area Chapter Education Institute, and the two associations are exploring opportunities for additional MPI chapter events. In addition, MPI presented two workshops at the IACC-Americas Connect conference this week in Los Angeles. IACC, the only association to certify conference and meetings-focused venues on a global basis, and...
What about a free trip to Hawaii? It sounds like a big incentive for important clients of Nu Skin Enterprises from China and Hong Kong. For Hawaii receiving 6000 qualified distributors from China is big business. For the Meeting and incentive travel and tourism market for the Aloha State having 6000 high spending tourists is a good reason to get excited. Nu Skin Enterprise is an American multilevel marketing company which develops and sells personal care products and dietary supplements. Nu...
Vienna’s record year for tourism in 2016 is equaled by the city’s meetings industry, which reported top results in all relevant key indicators: the number of events rose 11%, triggering a 2% increase in bednights, which saw induced economic impact advance some 3% to pass the one billion euro mark for the second year in succession. President of the Vienna Tourist Board and the Vienna City Councilor for Finance, Economic and International Affairs Renate Brauner, Director of Tourism Norbert...
The Korea M.I.C.E. Bureau (KMB) has stepped up its efforts to make hosting international meetings in Korea more competitive than ever through the launch of its expanded “Korea Convention Support Program.” Those who apply for the program using the KMB’s online Request for Proposal system during March will also be eligible for additional benefits, designed to enhance the experience of event delegates during their visit to Korea. The range of support programs on offer in 2017 falls into a range of...
Benchmark Resorts & Hotels, a global hospitality company, announced the “Top Meeting Trends for 2017” as observed by its properties. Benchmark is a leading U.S.-based hospitality management company, which operates 70 award-winning hotels, resorts, and conference centers within its Benchmark Resorts & Hotels and Gemstone Collection brands in locations coast to coast, off shore, and internationally. Ted Davis, Benchmark’s chief sales & marketing officer, made the...
2016 has been a significant year for the M.I.C.E. sector, which involved an important economic impact on Florence. In 2016 The Congress Citadel of Florence, Firenze Fiera, welcomed more than 77.000 congress delegates and over 44.000 conventions and congresses participants visited Florence thanks to the business won by Firenze Convention and Visitors Bureau, Firenze Fiera, the main congress centre in Tuscany, and all the PCOs and DMCs partners of FCVB. Firenze Convention & Visitors Bureau...
A prime location in Bangkok for visitors and locals on famous Silom road. The Dusit Thani Public Company Limited, one of Thailand’s foremost hotel and property development companies, today announced it has signed an agreement with the Crown Property Bureau to continue leasing the plot of land at the intersection of Silom Road and Rama 4, and on which the Dusit Thani Bangkok is built. The lease will be extended by 30 years with the right to extend for another 30 years. Dusit Thani Public Company...
“We can observe a very positive trend of delegates staying in Prague for longer time. While in 2015, delegates stayed here for 1.99 days on average, in 2016 it was 2.22 days. The statistics recorded a considerable increase of more than 100% even in the segment of events lasting more than six days,” said Roman Muška, Managing Director at Prague Convention Bureau, commenting on Prague’s rapid increase in MICE events. According to the Czech Statistical Office data, Prague welcomed 4,426...
Meetings and Exhibitions Hong Kong (MEHK) has concluded its largest-ever Top MICE Agents Awards Ceremony and Familiarization Trip, held from 22 to 26 February 2017, recognizing over 50 top-performing agents from four strategic MICE markets, including Mainland China, India, Indonesia and South Korea. This is the fifth consecutive year the city has hosted the award ceremony and mega familiarization trip. New elements added this year included participants from South Korea and an experience-packed...
An official delegation from the UAE is participating in OTM – India’s largest travel trade show – running from Tuesday, February 21, 2017 until February 23, 2017, in Mumbai, India – under the umbrella of the Ministry of Economy. Members include representatives of various tourism departments and agencies in the UAE The UAE is participating in the annual exhibition for the second year in a row. Its expanded pavilion is organized under the theme ‘Visit UAE’ and showcases the most popular...
Last month I had a chance to stay at the Centara Grand at CentralWorld Hotel in Bangkok. Attending a conference at the Bangkok Convention Centre, no hotel would have given one easier access than the Centara Grand at CentralWorld. The skyscraper connected to the convention center and the CentralWorld Shopping Center in the heart of Bangkok, Thailand. The outdoor swimming pool on the 26th floor, together with an award-winning SPA Cenvaree, along with a fitness center and tennis courts with modern...
After its successful launch in 2016, Meeting Design Institute is bringing the Future of Meetings concept back to The Meetings Show from 13-15 June 2017. The initiative gives start-up businesses, with less than ten staff and less than three years’ experience in the meetings and events industry, a chance to showcase their products and services to buyers in a technology focused environment. Maarten Vanneste, from Meeting Design Institute comments: “From the start, The Meetings Show has recognised...
With its online platform for venues, search engine, and Location Award, fiylo Deutschland provides its customers with plenty of requests by event planners. In the future, fiylo will not only successfully present national venues, the newly-founded fiylo international GmbH, with Bernd Fritzges and Frank Lienert as equal managing directors, will transport the business model around the world. In the German market, fiylo registers a steadily-growing number of providers. “fiylo is the strongest event...
In Milan, it has produced 10% of the national GDP, confirming a city in constant development, including high density of creativity, innovation, and numbers steadily rising in tourism, with a significant nod by congress. This is the outlook traced to Fiera Milano Congressi from Milan By Numbers 2015 work of the Lab on the International Meeting Industry (LAMCI), an initiative developed by the High School of Economics and International Relations at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore...
Exclusively Corporate at IMEX, the dedicated event for event and travel planners (corporate), has been redeveloped for IMEX in Frankfurt 2017. The IMEX team has collaborated with planners from across the globe to gather views and experiences, creating a new, free of charge, one day program for the show. Some of the challenges raised by event and meeting executives included the need to create a fresh event experience be it through new technology, emerging destinations or unique venues –...
Government officials of the city of Hangzhou, a key commercial, tourism and cultural hub in eastern China, have set for themselves the goal of transforming Hangzhou into an international meetings, travel incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE) destination and of rebranding the city to include the new role as a MICE destination as one of its leading attributes. As one of the first steps, Business Events Hangzhou, the government arm responsible for promoting and organizing MICE events in...
Applications for The Meetings Show hosted buyer program are now open. The show will take place from 13-15 June at Olympia London and is now in its fifth edition. Buyers wishing to be part of the program should visit the website, to check qualification criteria before completing their application. Following a successful show in 2016, where UK hosted buyer numbers increased by 11% as part of an overall 2% increase, 2017 will once again deliver a program designed to allow qualified buyers to...
The world’s third-largest MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Congress, Events) exhibition ACE of M.I.C.E. Congress, Meeting and Event Industry Exhibition will take place in February 22-24 in 2017 for the fourth time at Istanbul Congress Center – ICC sponsored by Turkish Airlines. The exhibition to host industry professionals from Turkey and all over the world is expected to bring qualified hosted buyers from oversea markets to our country, which will inspire MICE tourism. Organized by...
The challenge for event planners to find attractive hotels has been increasing. An attractive location together with exciting and fun-filled amenities is not an easy task. Speespeicher in Berlin has identified this vacuum. Berlin Speespeicher, located near the East Side Gallery inside a historical protected building directly facing River Spree, has been established as the number one event location in the German capital city. The needs of customers attending events had been identified with the...
The Prague Congress Center announces the international two rounds architectural urban design competition for the proposal of an extension to the Congress Center, consisting of needed exhibition surfaces and of the creation of quality public spaces in the site of the Pankrác square and its surrounding areas. The New KCP international competition is looking for solutions for one of the most complicated, yet one of the most interesting locations of Prague – the space of the Congress Center´s...
