Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE) and Reed Exhibitions China have announced that the management of CBITM will, after completing its second year in Beijing in July 2006, move to RTE and its specialist meetings and incentive team led by Paul Kennedy, MBE, Group Exhibition Director.

Dan Londero, President of Reed Exhibitions China, said “The repositioning of CBITM (to be rebranded as CIBTM for the 2007 event) within the portfolio of meetings and incentive shows is a logical development, combining the expertise of the teams based in Beijing and London.”

Paul Kennedy added “CIBTM 2007 will sit alongside EIBTM and our recently launched GIBTM (Abu Dhabi, March 2007) enabling the broadening of services to our international destination, hotel and specialist supplier clients.”

“We will leverage positive economies of scale to benefit our customer base throughout the global meetings industry. CIBTM is set to become the premier event for the meetings industry in China and in the immediate region, bringing together the inbound, outbound and domestic markets.”

“CIBTM will provide further opportunities to provide professional education programmes, high quality business networking and enable us to promote the importance of the meetings industry as an economic generator to new and emerging markets. We will also, as part of our commitment, provide support for elevating the role and importance of the meeting profession.”