The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) will participate in the 10th Asia Pacific Incentives & Meeting Expo (AIME 2002) in Melbourne at Stand No. 1808 from 19 to 20 February 2002. HKCEC’s Marketing and Sales Manager, Ms Monica Lee-Muller, will be the representative in AIME 2002 to meet with industry professionals to introduce HKCEC’s off season special rate and Meeting Package for 2002.

“With the success of the marketing initiative programme, which was first launched in April 1999, we are pleased to continue the programme through 2002. Special meeting packages of various price ranges are designed to meet the needs for small and large events. A rental discount of 35% will be offered for most events in ‘low-season’ months of February, June, July, August and December,” said Monica.  

She continued, “Fiscal year 2000/2001 was a record year for the HKCEC. The HKCEC recorded 2,229 events, generated total revenue of US$95 million, and was awarded the “Best Overseas Centre, Meetings Category” for the eighth consecutive year by readers of the authoritative publication, Meetings and Incentive Travel.”

To add to the compliments, according to the CEI Asia Pacific magazine’s recent release of Exhibition Venues Survey, the HKCEC and Hong Kong was listed as the best exhibition centre and the top city for exhibitions in the Asia Pacific region. The exhibition organisers said that after the location of a city and its exhibition centre, they considered also the cost, facilities and modern services.

As part of the ongoing drive to keep facilities at the cutting edge of new technology and to add value to each and every HKCEC use, HKCEC has completed a HK$10 million project to upgrade IT wiring in twenty-six meeting rooms, theatres, convention hall and two exhibition halls. The optic fibres and GigaSpeed copper cabling complement the existing ISDN lines and broadband links to facilitate high-speed transmission of computerised digital signals for data, voice and video.

In addition, the 400 and 600 series meeting rooms have been all renovated to give a functional and fresh new look. Highlighting the last quarter of 2001 were conferences as the East Asia Economic Summit 2001 (29 - 31 October 2001) and the 14th General Meeting of Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (28 - 30 November 2001) and exhibitions as IT Expo 2001 - 12th Asian Information Technology Exhibition (12 - 15 Sep 2001; 86,000 expected visitors), Software Exhibition 2001 (21 - 24 Nov 2001; 60,000 expected visitors).