Hong Kong’s hotel management company Wharf Hotels has appointed Axis Travel Marketing as its new global sales agency (GSA) for UK and Europe, 1 April. Formerly known as Marco Polo Hotels Management Limited, Wharf Hotels – a wholly owned subsidiary of The Wharf (Holdings) Limited – operates across Asia under the Niccolo Hotels and Marco Polo Hotels brands. The Hong Kong headquartered…
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre welcomed 80,000 international visitors to its Art Basel fair recently. Private collectors, curators and trustees from over 100 leading international museums and institutions, as well as art lovers from around the world convened for the sixth edition of the show. Six hundred temporary supporting staff joined the venue team…
Melbourne continues to attract incentive reward programmes from the Asia-Pacific market, with the latest success a major Hong Kong incentive group, AIA Hong Kong, which brought 2,400 international delegates to the state of Victoria 10-13 April. In Melbourne the group visited Queen Victoria Market, South Melbourne Market, the Tramcar Restaurant, Brighton Beach and Royal Botanic…
Malaysia’s 8th China Roadshow 2018 opened in Shanghai (23 March), and continued to Beijing (26 March), Chengdu (28 March), Chongqing (30 March), and Guangzhou (2 April). Malaysia Convention & Exhibition Bureau (MyCEB) headed a 27-strong delegation of industry partners to China to promote Malaysia as an attractive and preferred corporate meeting and incentive destination to the Chinese market. The China outbound…
Mr Dong Won Lee (pictured) has been appointed to lead Seoul’s Coex convention and exhibition centre. After an extensive search, Mr Lee’s appointment as president was approved by Coex’s general stockholders as the convention centre’s 17th president and CEO. Mr Lee comes from a long established career at the global advertisement company HS Ad, formerly…
South Korea is building on its successful hosting of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics by organising a series of roadshows across America and Europe to promote the country’s appeal as an international MICE destination. The Korea Tourism Organisation (KTO) MICE bureau has organised the roadshows, which began in Vienna (20 March) and Brussels (22 March),…
The Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) is accepting speaker applications for its Global Conference 2019, which takes place 11-13 January in Bangkok, Thailand. Organisers of the association’s signature event hope to gather 500 incentive travel professionals for a conference of learning, networking and celebration. SITE is encouraging interested parties to share their stories, best…
Meetings and Exhibitions Hong Kong (MEHK) has announced its new 2018/2019 Hong Kong Rewards!* programme, including added benefits for MICE organisers. Starting from 1 April 2018 the programme will run through to 31 March 2019, and will mean MICE organisers with qualifying events held within the city can bolster them through complimentary drinks receptions, meals,…
The Japanese city of Yokohama has been chosen to host the World Meeting on Sexual Medicine (WMSM) in 2020. The academic conference is a forum for research in the field of sexual dysfunction and it will be the first time the conference will have visited Japan when it comes to the PACIFICO convention complex, 16-19…
Sarawak in Malaysia is one of the destinations looking to foster closer ties with international associations, federation and societies at the Associations World Congress, which takes place 12-14 March in Antwerp, Belgium. Sarawak Convention Bureau (SCB) chief operating officer Amelia Roziman stressed the importance of cultivating global relationships at the congress. “Associations possess undisputed knowledge,…
