Friday, October 04, 2013

TCEB unveils new marketing campaign

News this week: The Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) introduced a new global marketing campaign “Thailand Connect” which aims to expand the country’s MICE industry. The bureau hopes the industry will generate revenues of approximately US$3.2 billion and attract 987,000 overseas MICE travellers in 2014.

TCEB’s new campaign focuses on three key factors in Thailand: a diversity of destinations, unrivalled business opportunities and the high quality of Thailand’s MICE professionals. The campaign also offers a number of market-promotion packages to incentivise MICE event organisers and travellers.

For international exhibitions, TCEB will support business-matching activities for visiting trade groups of 15 or more delegates from the ASEAN+6 countries and BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) countries – comprising of Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal and Thailand.


Additionally, TCEB forecasts revenue from MICE events in Chiang Mai to increase by 10% to US$135 million and the number of MICE travellers to rise by 5% to 72,424 this year. In 2012, Chiang Mai Province held 490 MICE events, of which 80% were international. The US$80 million Chiang Mai International Convention and Exhibition Center recently opened in May and is capable of housing 476 standard-sized exhibition booths.

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