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Middle East: Creating separation between meetings and leisure

June 04, 2014· · tags: Business travel, entertainment Middle east, event industry., Middle East and North Africa, tourism middle east
Joint Meetings Industry Council Executive Director Rod Cameron argues that failing to emphasise the distinction between leisure and meetings-related travel will hurt the sector.     Something that has haunted the meetings industry for many years has now become a matter of real urgency, courtesy of the global recession and its fallout. That ‘something’ is our collective failure to more clearly distinguish between travel for personal and leisure-oriented reasons and that which is undertaken for business purposes.       The reason this is so important is that those who make decisions about the organisation and financing of meetings, conventions, exhibitions and conferences, as well as those who decide who should attend them, are now highly sensitive to the appearance of such events as simply vehicles for personal enjoyment at public or corporate expense. In fact, just the word ‘tourism’ in association with such events suggests their real purpose is something other than their actual role as a primary tool for economic and professional development.       Read More
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GIBTM 2014: What to Expect in Abu Dhabi

February 21, 2014· · tags: Abu Dhabi Events, Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, dubai entertainment, Entertainment United Arabs Emirates, Middle East and North Africa, The Gulf Incentives, UAE
Organizers of the 2014 edition of The Gulf Incentives, Business, Travel and Meetings are reporting that the show is seeing “robust exhibitor and buyer interest” thanks to new exhibition features, an expanded educational program and innovative concept areas. An estimated 300 hosted buyers and more than 2,000 trade visitors are expected to attend.   Kicking off at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) from  March 24-26, GIBTM will see some first-time exhibitors attending from Spain, the United States, Thailand, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Czech Republic, UAE, Korea, United Kingdom, Uganda, South Africa and Morocco.   Last year, GIBTM tripled corporate meetings buyer attendance accounting for 35 percent of all hosted buyers attending the show, compared to 11 percent from the corporate sector in 2012.   Read More
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MiddleEast: ICCA 50-year report reveals sector boom

February 19, 2014· · tags: A Modern History of International Association Meetings: 1963- 2012, Dubai and Abu Dhab, Dubai Convention and Events Bureau, ICCA Association Database, Middle East and North Africa, UAE events
The past and potential exponential growth of the association meetings market has been revealed in a report commissioned to mark ICCA’s 50-year anniversary. The report, A Modern History of International Association Meetings: 1963- 2012, released at the end of 2013 reveals US$56.4 billion was the aggregated estimated total expenditure on all meetings in the ICCA Association Database that have taken place over the last five years. ICCA’s membership has increased from just seven members in 1963 to 917 in 2013 and five-year aggregated data of the last 50 years shows that since 1963, the number of meetings in the ICCA Association Database has grown by 10 percent each year. This means the number of regularly-occurring, international association meetings taking place doubled every 10 years. The pace at which meetings are occuring is also gathering momentum. The database shows 173,432 meetings took place between 1963 and 2012 with 1,795 or one percent of those staged between 1963 and 1967 and 54,844 or 31.6 percent staged between 2008 and 2012. Read More
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First Look: Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre

October 31, 2013· · tags: Ahmad Al Harthy, Middle East and North Africa, oman, Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre, Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain Pro-Am 1 Champion, Tourism Development for the Ministry of Tourism
The Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre is reaching out to international meeting planners in a move to build awareness and promote the in-development venue—and the Sultanate of Oman itself—for large-scale meetings and events.   With the venue due for completion in late 2016, the operator, AEG Ogden, together with the Ministry of Tourism, has been actively targeting key decision-makers worldwide. After promoting the Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre at global industry trade shows, a delegation from the Oman Ministry of Tourism and venue representatives have undertaken the first in a series of exclusive client events in Paris, Geneva, Brussels and London.   Read More
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Arabian Travel Market to Expand in 2014

October 28, 2013· · tags: Arabian Travel Market, Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Dubai’s Department of Tourism & Commerce Marketing, Hotelier Middle East, May 2014, Middle East and North Africa, Middle East businesses., qatar, World Economic Forum Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index
Next year’s Arabian Travel Market will be significantly larger than previous editions, Hotelier Middle East is reporting.   Due to increased exhibitor demand, an extra hall has been added to the floor plan, which now exceeds 23,500 square metres of exhibition space.   According to organizer Reed Travel Exhibitions, this represents a 5.8 percent increase in floor space for next year’s event, which will be held from May 5-8, 2014 at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre. Reed Travel Exhibitions portfolio director Mark Walsh noted that the most demand for floor space was coming from Middle East businesses.   Demand from Middle East exhibitors up 11 percent, Europe up by 7 percent and travel technology and hotels rising by 8 percent and 7 percent respectively.   Read More
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