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July 2013 PPS 1140/09/2012(022844) WINNER OF PATA GOLD AWARD 2011 AND 2009 Asia-Pacific’s leading meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions resource Centres of innovation Think you have seen the best of what these established convention and exhibition centres in Asia-Pacific can offer? Well, they have got more up their sleeves ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Japan’s display of fortitude • The show goes on in South Korea mice-July p00 cover_v3.indd 1 6/24/13 2:00 PM EXPLORE A NEW DESTINATION LE MERIDIEN YIXING N 31° 21’ E 119° 51’ T +86 510 8719 8888 lemeridien.com/yixing Yixing’ s newest international hotel, Le Méridien Discover a new meeting experience Yixing grand open on 31st MAY, oers chic from RMB488+15% / person / day accommodation, exciting dining destinations including many benefits. and state-of-the-art meeting facilities. In Le Méridien style, the room keys open more For more information or to than the doors – they unlock art and refreshing m a k e a r e s e r v a t i o n , p l e a s e v i s i t perspectives in each destination. lemeridien.com/yixing or dial +86 510 8719 8888. ©2013 Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Preferred Guest, SPG, Le Méridien and their logos are the trademarks of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., or its aliates. Untitled-2 1 6/19/13 5:43 PM TTG.indd 1 2013/6/10 15:02:53 To our readers Keep moving t is natural that one tends New Zealand International to be drawn to all things Convention Centre come 2017. Ishiny and new, and in Although many established recent weeks and months much convention and exhibition attention has been paid to the centres in Asia-Pacific have construction of new convention reported rosy business since and exhibition centres here in the start of 2013, with some Asia-Pacific. operating at maximum capacity PEO/PCOs looking to hold – such as the Melbourne Con- their events in this region are vention and Exhibition Centre already quite spoilt for choice, and the Hong Kong Convention as a single hot commercial or and Exhibition Centre – the industrial city may have more truth is not all centres in the than just one convention and region are optimally utilised. exhibition centre to meet their UFI’s Global Exhibition Indus- needs. Just look at Singapore. try Statistics, dated November Its land area is a mere 710km2 2012, showed a 7.7 per cent but the tiny island state is home rise in indoor exhibition space to Suntec Singapore Interna- between 2006 and 2011, while Karen Yue Group editor tional Convention & Exhibition net space rented grew two per Centre, Singapore Expo Conven- cent between 2008 and 2011. “With more competition tion & Exhibition Centre, Sands With more competition on Expo and Convention Center, the horizon, existing conven- on the horizon, existing Resorts World Convention tion and exhibition centres convention and exhibition Centre and Raffles City Con- cannot afford to stand still; centres cannot afford vention Centre – all strapping they must find ways to reju- to stand still; they must venues that can support large venate themselves in order to find ways to rejuvenate tradeshows. On top of these stand out from the crowd and themselves in order to stand are many more spaces offered keep up with an increasingly out from the crowd and keep within business hotels. demanding clientele who are up with an increasingly Organisers’ options are set to unafraid to take their business demanding clientele who expand further with more Asian elsewhere. are unafraid to take their cities on track to open new In this month’s cover story, business elsewhere.” event facilities over the next few Centres of innovation, we not years. For instance, Iloilo City only find out how some of the in the Philippines will launch region’s most established con- a convention centre in 2H2015; vention and exhibition centres Penang, Malaysia will get two are faring, we also look at the hefty venues in 2015 and 2017; new products they are offering and Auckland will unveil the to keep PEO/PCOs enthralled. July 2013 TTGmice 1 mice-Jul p01 Readers-version2_KNMY.indd 1 6/24/13 1:47 PM JULY 2013 mice-Jul p02-03 Contents.indd 2 6/20/13 1:54 PM www.ttgmice.com EDITORIAL COVER STORY GROUP EDITOR Karen Yue (email: [email protected]) DEPUTY GROUP EDITOR Gracia Chiang (email: [email protected]) ASSISTANT EDITOR, TTG ASIA ONLINE Hannah Koh (email: [email protected]) ASSISTANT EDITOR, SINGAPORE Lee Pei Qi (email: [email protected]) ASSISTANT EDITOR, THAILAND Xinyi Liang-Pholsena (email: [email protected]) COPY EDITOR Kathy Neo (email: ([email protected]) Centres of EDITOR, MALAYSIA/BRUNEI S Puvaneswary (email: [email protected]) EDITOR, INDONESIA Mimi Hudoyo (email: [email protected]) CORRESPONDENTS Greg Lowe (Thailand, email: [email protected]); Prudence Lui (Hong Kong/Greater China, email: [email protected]); innovation Shekhar Niyogi, Rohit Kaul (India, email: [email protected], [email protected]); Feizal Samath (Sri Lanka, email: [email protected]); Marianne Carandang, Rosa Ocampo Think you have seen the best of (The Philippines, email: [email protected], [email protected]) what these established convention CREATIVE DESIGNERS Redmond Sia, Goh Meng Yong and exhibition centres in Asia- EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Lina Tan Pacific can offer? Well, they have SALES & MARKETING GROUP PUBLISHER Michael Chow (email: [email protected]) 8 ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER got more up their sleeves. TTGmice finds Stephanie Lim (email: [email protected]) SENIOR BUSINESS MANAGER Marisa Chen (Hong Kong, email: [email protected]) out what’s new CORPORATE MARKETING MANAGER Cheryl Tan (email: [email protected]) MARKETING EXECUTIVE Tan Ee Hiang (email: [email protected]) ASST MANAGER ADMINISTRATION & MARKETING Carol Cheng (Hong Kong, email: [email protected]) COUNTRY REPORTS ADVERTISEMENT ADMINISTRATION MANAGER Cheryl Lim (email: [email protected]) 16 A display of fortitude PUBLISHING SERVICES DIVISION MANAGER Tony Yeo As Japan bounces back from the 3/11 doldrums, it DESKTOP PUBLISHING EXECUTIVE Nancy Lee SENIOR CIRCULATION EXECUTIVE Carol Wong (email: [email protected]) remains to be seen if the country’s MICE sector can overcome internal challenges, writes Hannah Koh OFFICES SINGAPORE TTG Asia Media Pte Ltd, 1 Science Park Road, #04-07 The Capricorn, Singapore Science Park II, Singapore 117528 24 Tel: +65 6395 7575, fax: +65 6536 0896, email: [email protected] Neighbourly ties firm up HONG KONG TTG Asia Media Pte Ltd, Unit 2011, 20/F, Harbour Centre, Macau is increasingly looking towards Chinese inbound 25 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong to drive its MICE sector. 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(tel: +39 02 8068 9204, fax: +39 02 8068 9250, email: [email protected]); JAPAN Mayumi Kai/ South Korean MICE players are singing a collective Michiko Kawano, Pacific Business Inc. (tel:+81 3 3661 6138, fax: +81 3 3661 6139, email: [email protected]/[email protected]); MALAYSIA Gerald Saw, Raffles International song of peace to calm event organisers who have been Media Sdn Bhd (tel: +60 19 2296 484, fax: +60 3 7886 2372, email: geraldsaw_raffles@ yahoo.com); SOUTH KOREA Young J Baek, Young Media Inc. (tel: + 82 2 2273 4818/4819, spooked by a restless North, writes Lee Pei Qi fax: +82 2 2273 4866, email: [email protected]); SPAIN, MADRID Luis Andrade, Luis Andrade International Media (tel: +34 91 441 6266, fax: +34 91 441 6549, email: landrade@ luisandrade.com); SRI LANKA Vijitha Yapa/Albadur Cader, Vijitha Yapa Associates (tel: +94 11 255 6600, fax: +94 11 259 4717, email: [email protected]/[email protected]); TAIWAN Virginia Lee/Shirley Shen/Kitty Luh, Spacemark Media Services (tel: +886 2 2522 2282, fax: +886 2 2522 2281, email: [email protected]); THAILAND DEPARTMENTS Chower Narula/Anchana Nararidh, World Media Co. Ltd (tel: +66 2 641 2693-6, fax: +66 2 641 2697, email: [email protected]/[email protected]); THE 1 PHILIPPINES Eduardo S. Bassig, ESB Marketing Services (tel: +63 2 448 5848, email: To our readers [email protected]/[email protected]); UK & EUROPE Sheryl Makin, TTG Media (tel: +44 20 7921 8023, fax: +44 20 7921 8034, email: [email protected]); USA, Debbie Joseph Anderson, Destination Marketing Hawaii (tel: +1 808 739 2200, fax: 4 Talk of the trade +1 808 739 2201, email: [email protected]) TTGmice, endorsed by the Asian Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus, 39 is published by TTG Asia Media Pte Ltd, and is mailed free-of-charge on written Case study request to readers Asia-wide who meet a set of predetermined terms and conditions.