Singapore Continues As Asia's Convention City For 9th Year - Travel News, Tourism News

Singapore has

maintained its position as Asia's Top Convention City for near to a

decade, based on the latest Global Ratings through the

Congress Association (ICCA) alongside Vienna, Barcelona,

Paris and Berlin.

About this win, ICCA's Ceo,

Mr. Martin Sirk congratulated Singapore on hosting probably the most rotating

association conferences among all Asia-Off-shore locations this year.

-Singapore continues to be proactively focusing on this sector included in a obvious

strategy for several years, and it was most likely the very first destination within the

world to so carefully align this conferences strategy using the economic

development goals of the nation.--

Based on this being approved

qualifying criterion, 136 rotating occasions were locked in Singapore this year,

representing greater than 14 percent growth within the occasions that qualified

in '09. Notable occasions that led to those amounts range from the

20th Annual Conference from the Inter-Off-shore Bar Association, World

Conference on Ongoing Engineering Education 2010, Worldwide

Conference from the Worldwide Bartenders Association 2010, 77th World

Congress from the UFI - The Worldwide Association from the Exhibition Industry,

World Congress of Biomechanics 2010, World Congress of Bioethics 2010,

RoboCup 2010 and also the World Eco-friendly Building Council Worldwide Congress

2010.

Ms. Melissa Ow, Assistant Leader, Industry

Development (II) Group, Singapore Tourism Board (STB) stated that constant

re-invention and ever-altering skyline alllow for compelling good reasons to

go back to Singapore and go through the richness it needs to offer both to

the company and leisure vacationers.

This Year, Singapore attracted

3.a million business vacationers, which paid for for 27 percent of

site visitors to Singapore, investing about Five Dollars.4 billion Singapore dollars.

This signifies abnormal growths where it matters most - 19.2 percent and 28.6

percent correspondingly over 2009. Inside the first 1 / 2 of 2011 alone,

there have been 12 " new world " Congresses guaranteed to increase Singapore's fall into line

of occasions from 2012 to 2016 - in contrast, 14 were guaranteed inside the

whole of 2010. Spanning across a huge variety of industries for example

Lifestyle, Business and Trade, Social, Infrastructure, and Health care,

these new association meeting wins range from the 52nd ACI World Congress

in 2013, the planet Federation of Engineering Organisations Congress

2013, the 36th World Gemstone Congress in 2014 and also the Worldwide

Congress around the globe Confederation for Physical Rehabilitation 2015.

Also

playing a component in success is STB's Conference Ambassador Programme

(CAP). Released in the year 2006, the CAP identifies rewards and galvanizes

non-professional conference coordinators who're experts and influential

opinion leaders in Singapore's key economic industries. These -ambassadors-

represent Singapore in putting in a bid for worldwide business occasions and

have caused in acquiring numerous occasions like the Internet

Corporation for Designated Names and Amounts (ICANN) Meeting 2011, ASEAN

Congress of Cardiology (ACC) 2012 and 22nd World Congress for Sexual

Health 2015.

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