16.02.2015 - Record number of events
The Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (the Centre) celebrates its 10th year in operation on the back of a milestone 2014 with 1,759 events hosted, an 11% increase over the previous record of 1,565 in 2013. The Entertainment and TenOnCall segments saw business grow 40% and 14% respectively while Banqueting & Functions and Exhibitions both registered 9% growth. Delegate numbers were up accordingly to over 1.97 million against 1.96 million in 2013. And as it approaches its 10th year, the Centre can take pride in having served more than 17.6 million delegates and visitors from 9,969 events and contributed RM 5.5 billion in economic impact since opening in June 2005. Among the many high-profile events on the centre’s 2015 roster are the ASEAN Finance Ministers Meeting 2015, Global Food Safety Conference 2015, 18th Human Genome Meeting 2015, Global Round World Scholar Cup 2015, International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST) 2015, Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Association of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (APACRS) 2015, Congress of the International Society for Hemodialysis (ISHD) 2015, Congress of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology 2015; and Asean Federation of Endocrine Society (AFES) 2015. (ank)
Quelle: Jan 28, 2015 [m+a UFI Newsletter]