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NORTH AMERICA
ThinkOttawa launches in the
Canadian capital
Three of Ottawa’s pillar economic development
organisations – Ottawa Tourism, Shaw Centre,
and Invest Ottawa – are working together under
a new programme.
ThinkOttawa will bring more conferences
and events to Canada’s capital by supporting
local industry leaders in academia, government,
charity and associations with their international
conference bids.
EUROPE
UFI’s European Conference comes
to Birmingham, UK
UFI’s 2019 European Conference is taking place
15-17 May in Birmingham, UK.
The theme of the event is ‘The Organisers’
Future’, and will focus on what’s in store for
exhibition organisers in Europe and beyond.
It will cover global opportunities from a
European perspective, as well as focusing on the
USA, China and Russia.
MIDDLE EAST EUROPE
ADNEC delivers US$929m for Abu
Dhabi EU Presidency ‘trial run’ in Prague
Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC) preparing for the EU Presidency in 2022 by holding a
has announced the value of its direct and indirect ‘Presidency trial run’ at the Prague Congress
impact on the Abu Dhabi economy in 2018 was Centre (PCC).
The Government of the Czech Republic has been
AED3.41bn (US$929m), taking the total value of its The event aimed to learn from the experience of
contribution to the local economy since its inception the EU Presidency of Slovakia and Romania, and gave
in 2005 to AED32bn. the venue an opportunity to present and test the
ADNEC welcomed more than 2m visitors from
audio-visual and communication technologies needed
across the globe in 2018.
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for staging key EU meetings.
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