congress

The project is ambitious, and promises to change the face of Dallas as a major events destination. In addition to MICE, the 'Master Plan' devised by Texas officials should transform Downtown Dallas and even the destination as a whole, by forging more links between its conference centre and the rest of the...

How would you sum up 2023? Odile Delannoy - 2023 was a very good year for our 73 members, including 64 convention centres and offices in France. Business remained strong throughout the year, including December. As a result, their results were higher than in 2022. Every...

Mulhouse is looking ahead to 2024 with legitimately increased ambitions in the MICE segment. The destination will soon have expanded infrastructures, with a new 3,000 m² hall. This will significantly increase (25%) the capacity of the existing infrastructure (12,000 m²). In addition, the project includes the development of an outdoor events area,...

The top-of-the-range Radisson Blu brand has found a new place of choice for business travellers in Paris: the Triangle Tower, the capital's future iconic skyscraper currently rising just above the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre. The project has experienced a number of delays,...

The Hilton Group is continuing to expand its Signia brand, which specialises in large conference hotels, in the United States. Having already appeared in Orlando and San José, and expected in January in Atlanta, with a hotel directly linked to one of the most important MICE venues in the United States, the Georgia World Congress Center, the brand has unveiled a new project...

Accor is nurturing its relationships with decision-makers in the MICE segment. The French group is now a partner of Uniceo (United Networks of International Corporate Event Organizers), presented as the only international not-for-profit association bringing together decision-makers in charge of events representing major companies and associations on an international scale. Within this network of...

Deprived for two years of its key asset for hosting events, Belgrade was ranked 70th in the latest ICCA rankings. Serbia was ranked 70th in the country rankings. But a new dynamic should soon give the destination a boost, and enable it to regain market share in the international...

The Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau has just unveiled a study packed with information. The Managing Director of Paris je t'aime makes the first observation in her introduction: "2022 marks a return to a situation close to normal for conventions in the Paris Region", Corinne Menegaux sums up. The figures are...

Updated on 11 October at 2pm Ranked fifth in the GDS-Index last year, Bordeaux is back where it was in 2021, in ninth place. A disappointment? Not necessarily, as Bordeaux's score has risen from 85.10 to 87.10, reflecting the city's growing commitment to a sustainable tourism strategy...

At the beginning of August, Indianapolis city councillors kicked off work on the Pan Am Plaza site, next to the Indiana Convention Center. The convention centre will benefit from an expansion plan costing 710 million dollars, or some 465 million euros. This new phase...

Béziers is on the move! Facing Saint-Nazaire cathedral and its new forecourt, the La Prison hotel opened its doors at the end of May after two years' work by the Mando Hospitality group. Aptly named, this 3-star establishment is housed in a former prison dating back to the 18th century, which was...

London's events infrastructure is getting a makeover. While ExCel London is due to complete its extension works in October 2024, another MICE venue is set to follow in its footsteps shortly. The Barbican Centre has just received approval from the City of London Corporation to finance the launch of renovation works. This will involve improving the...

By October 2024, ExCeL London will have completed its transformation. This makeover will see the London convention centre add 25,000 m² to its already comfortable 100,000 m² surface area. This will open up a whole new world of possibilities for event organisers. But they won't necessarily have to wait for the official inauguration to plan their operation...

The Abidjan Exhibition Centre (PEA) was officially inaugurated on 17 July by Tiémoko Meyliet Koné, Vice-President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. Strategically located at Abidjan Port-Bouët, next to Félix Houphouët-Boigny airport, it occupies no less than 16 hectares. And it lays claim to the status of the largest exhibition centre...

On 12 July, the Tampa Convention Center officially entered a new era. It cost $38 million (€33.8 million) and took 20 months of work to rejuvenate the convention centre in Florida's third-largest city, which attracts a large number of business travellers every year. The...

It is far from being Austria's best-known city. And that's a mistake. Graz, the country's second largest urban centre with a population of just under 300,000, has nothing to envy its more internationally renowned counterparts such as Innsbruck and Salzburg. The capital of the Land of Styria, in south-east Austria,...

It's the next logical step for a destination that wants to demonstrate its commitment to eco-responsibility. Already ISO 9001 (Quality) and ISO 18788 (Safety and Security) certified from 2019, the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès de Cannes was awarded the ISO 20121 (Responsible Events) label last year. These prerequisites now enable it to achieve the...

In the shadow of Vienna's coronation in the ICCA rankings, and while everyone was on the lookout for this post-Covid MICE atlas, the news passed relatively unnoticed. Yet it is indicative of the rise of an ambitious destination, a newcomer intent on carving out a place for itself in the sun of major international events. For the...

"The most important building to open in Wellington since the Sky Stadium was built twenty years ago": that's how the new Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre is presented. And when you know the importance attached to the local rugby stadium, you can appreciate the significance of the event. The opening of the new...

Following in the footsteps of Vienna, crowned by the new ICCA rankings as the world's leading congress destination, Prague has also been able to capitalise on the return of international events. With 616,000 participants expected to attend nearly 4,000 events in 2022, the Czech capital is playing a leading role. Admittedly, this means that business is only...