MICE

The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) and Meeting Professionals International (MPI) today announced the two associations are collaborating to present meeting and event focused education at GBTA Conference 2017 Frankfurt in Partnership with VDR, taking place in Frankfurt, 28-30 November.

Korea is seeing a sharp increase in business visitors from Taiwan in 2017 in response to active marketing and support programs at home and abroad by the Korea MICE Bureau (KMB) division of the Korea Tourism Organization. Some 30,000 Taiwanese corporate travelers are currently enjoying incentive travel-based visits to Korea throughout the second half of the year, just over a month after business events roadshows successfully conducted by the KMB in the island nation’s largest cities.

The IMEX Group – organizers of IMEX America – has announced the dates and locations for their industry leading Las Vegas show through 2025.

The opening of the 22nd session of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) General Assembly in Chengdu, China took place with the attendance of more than 1300 delegates from over 130 countries.

KNCV Tuberculosis Fund and the municipality of The Hague will facilitate the 2018 Union World Conference on Lung Health in The Netherlands. This annual world conference focuses on TB and other lung diseases such as asthma and pneumonia, air pollution and anti-smoking policies.

The Global Eco Asia-Pacific Tourism Conference, the annual conference of Ecotourism Australia will be held on 27-29 November 2017 in Adelaide, South Australia. Organizers announce the programme of the conference.

The Cityscape Global 2017 – the biggest annual real estate event – has been opened by the Dubai Crown Prince His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

IGLTA President/CEO John Tanzella meets with the Italian Association of Gay & Lesbian Tourism and government leaders. The meeting marked the City of Milan’s official announcement that it will bid to host IGLTA’s 37th Annual Global Convention in 2020 in conjunction with AITGL and the Italian National Tourist Board (ENIT).

Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) will hold their prestigious congress next week at ICC Jerusalem. The congress will attract more than 1,200 prominent researchers, scientists and doctors from Europe and more than 500 researchers and academics from Israel.

Reed Travel Exhibitions, organizer of world’s leading travel and tourism events, announced that the UNWTO & WTM Ministers’ Summit at WTM London will debate the so-called ‘overtourism’ which has become a hot topic in recent months. Reports from around the world speaking of ‘tourism-phobia’ and showing pictures of citizens protesting against the ‘invasion of tourists’ and the expulsion of locals by tourism businesses are among this summer’s important incidents happened in Europe.

The Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre will host the Worldchefs Congress and Expo 2018. Worldchefs is the global authority on food and their congress is a hallmark tradition of the association and has been organised in over 20 cities across the world throughout its illustrious 82-year history. The 2018 congress will be its first time in Malaysia and only the second occasion in the organisation’s history that the event will be held in South-east Asia.

Event marketing research 2017 conducted an online survey with a total of 1630 national and international organizers as well as 2621 national and international attendees to find out which activities are used by the organizers and which are on top of their list. As a direct counterpart to the organizer perspective, the research also analyses how event attendees search, find, and choose events.

The indisputable meeting point of Spanish fashion will celebrate its 66th edition from 14th to 19th of September, staging the proposals of the most outstanding Spanish designers, and offering the perfect opportunity to discover, or present, the most creative fashion proposals. It is a great event that represents the work of both experienced and emerging designers, and generates enormous interest in the world of international fashion.

Air Mauritius recently organised a meeting with several travel agencies to present Singapore as a destination for Mauritians. This approach will in return bring visibility for Mauritius and Singapore.