Key MICE players set up shop in Singapore
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Three major players in the global MICE industry are setting up offices in Singapore, the Singapore Tourism Board said.
Kellen Company, one of the world’s largest association management companies with over 100 association clients, has forged an alliance with Singapore-based CMA International Consultants Pte Ltd to set up their Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore.
Both intend to provide global solutions to international associations and NGOs and get their clients to conduct their meetings and business events in Singapore.
The second company is Leipziger Messe GmbH, organiser of the largest interactive gaming exhibition in Europe - Games Convention (Germany). A release said the company would use the office - opening next month – to further develop Games Convention Asia, which it brought to Singapore in 2007, and tap into the Asia Pacific market for its shows.
The third player is Kenes International, one of the world’s leading Professional Conference Organisers. The STB said through its strong background in biomedical events, Kenes will “enable Singapore to better anchor and develop biomedical events here and consolidate Singapore’s position as Asia’s biomedical hub”.
Idris said the airline’s new five-year Business Turnaround Plan 2 (BTP2) was necessary with the challenges brought on by price reductions, especially with low-cost carriers as well as expected increase in capacity and crude oil prices that are at all-time high levels.“Unless we take drastic action, MAS will hit a wall and fail badly,” Idris was quoted saying.
Asked about the impact of the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore route - dominated by MAS and Singapore Airlines – which opened to low-cost carriers today, Idris was quoted saying that it was a partial opening, the impact would not be so much.
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