MICE

The choice of accommodation for visitors to the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre continues to expand. In anticipation of the future Radisson Blu, which will take its place in 2026 in the Triangle tower, which is beginning to rise above the exhibition centre, visitors will find new roofs in this favourable area...

Now that the World Cup is over, European rugby is preparing to return to the business as usual that has kept its winters alive for a good century: the famous Tournament. From 2 February onwards, the eyes of rugby fans will turn not to the Stade de France, which has been mobilised for the Olympic Games, but to Marseille, Lyon...

It was the media centre for the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. It will soon be one of the world's largest convention and exhibition centres, when it opens in 2025. It will be a place to welcome heads of state to international summits held in the Chinese capital, as well as the world's leading...

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...

2024 is a major year for Paris, with the hosting of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Let's start with a concern that may affect business travellers. With millions of spectators expected, would you advise them to avoid meetings and appointments in Paris, particularly at the start of the new academic year at the end of August/beginning of September? Pierre Rabadan - The...

What is the situation regarding the return of international trade show business to pre-crisis levels? Corinne Moreau - International trade shows are still 10 to 20% behind 2018. This is not specific to France either. The Germans, who are our main competitors,...

What is your assessment of tourism in Asia Pacific in 2023, and how do you see 2024? Peter Semone - The effects of the Covid pandemic will have taken longer in Asia Pacific than elsewhere in the world. Not least because many Asian countries didn't really reopen up to foreign tourism until the...

What place is left today for the virtual practices adopted during the health crisis? Perrine Edelman - We were told that nothing would ever be the same again, that there would be no more big events, no more major conferences, that people would no longer get together in the way they used to. I myself was a bit worried for a while...

Faster, higher, stronger. The Wyndham group is expanding its footprint in the Paris Region business hotel sector. While its Dolce brand is preparing a MICE hotel in Jouy-en-Josas, next spring the American hotelier will be affixing its flag to another large, very large business establishment. A hotel with a front-row seat for the major event of the...

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...

The time is probably not so far off when booking meetings online and in real time will be commonplace. Each of the major hotel groups is exploring solutions aimed at providing a simple, practical way of seamlessly managing relations between establishments and meeting organisers. In...

With 15 to 20 % of the world's population showing neurological differences - autism, dyslexia, epilepsy, ADHD and other OCD - according to the American National Cancer Institute, Marriott is incorporating neurodivergence into its meetings & events offering. A problem that affects a significant proportion of the working population, highlighted by the National Cancer Institute, is...

Mauritius is aiming to boost its appeal on the international MICE scene. And as a picture-postcard setting is not always enough, the local authorities are also playing on the economic string to charm organisers. A new VAT exemption on accommodation costs was introduced in October...

The Mercure Tokyo Haneda Airport has just opened its doors, becoming the first international chain hotel close to the runways of Haneda airport, the departure point for many domestic flights and increasingly for international routes due to its greater proximity to the centre of the Japanese capital....

Dolce by Wyndham, the American group's MICE brand, is to make a comeback in the Paris region. Long present in Chantilly, it disappeared when its hotel was transferred to the Accor group's Mercure brand. But it is preparing to reappear from next March, no longer in the north of the capital, but in...

How did Azureva gradually move into the MICE segment? Bruno Mounier - We are a subsidiary of La Poste, created over 70 years ago. As a result of this heritage, Azureva now operates 43 sites. From its original aim of enabling postal workers to go on holiday, the association has gradually...

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...

The event: 24 hours in Marrakech Nearly forty guests - journalists and, above all, decision-makers from the travel industry - were invited to Marrakech on 9 November at the initiative of the ONMT (Moroccan National Tourist Office) and SETO (Syndicat des Entreprises du Tour Operating). Two months to the day after the earthquake, these "24...