At the venue of the 9th Euro-Asian Event Forum EFEA (PetroCongress Congress Center, 5 Lodeinopolskaya st., St Petersburg), a General Meeting of the Russian Convention Bureau members was held, at which the Bureau’s 2019 results were summed up and a number of the organizational issues were discussed. The main indicators on the Bureau’s activity results, a report on implemented projects and the main directions of work for 2020 were presented to the Meeting participants.
The General Meeting agenda also included
statements by the heads of the Russian Convention Bureau industry sections,
where the representatives of the business areas Destination Marketing, Meetings
Management, Meetings Support, Venues and Destination Management Company shared
their current results and plans for realizing collaboration within sections.
At the General Meeting
venue the Russian Convention Bureau signed a cooperation agreement with the National
Hospitality Industry Union (NHIU). One of the key areas within the framework of
the signed agreement will be working out and implementing the industry development
concept of the country's business and event tourism (including infrastructure
development) and interaction in the development of common solutions for its
improvement.
An important step in
implementing the inter-regional cooperation was signing the tripartite
agreement to provide mutual consultative, organizational, informational and analytical
and methodological support between the St. Petersburg State Budgetary
Institution Congress and Exhibition Bureau, the Autonomous Non-Profit
Organization for Promotion of Social and Economic Development of the Black Sea
Coast The Black Sea Convention Bureau
and the non-profit partnership Marketing
Center Congress Bureau of Yekaterinburg. Among other initiatives under the
agreement, there are plans to develop a single inter-regional commercial product
offer, based on the regional MICE products.
The congress center
PetroCongress acted as a partner in organizing and conducting the General
Meeting of the Russian Convention Bureau.
In the evening, at the
restaurant Severny Modern, the Second
Intellectual Games of the Russian Convention Bureau were held, where teams of representatives
of the companies - members of the Russian Convention Bureau and participants of
the Euro-Asian Event Forum EFEA took part. According to the already established
tradition, the topics of the questions were the meeting industry and history of
St. Petersburg. But this year, the players were supposed to demonstrate
quick-wittedness also in the issues that referred to the unique regional
features from the Regions Event Passports, which are being worked on by the Russian
Convention Bureau. The Games intellectual partner was Event LIVE, a business
portal for the event industry professionals.
According to Alexey
Kalachev, Director of the Russian Convention Bureau, meetings of the event
industry leading professionals at the Russian Convention Bureau events allow us
to talk about creating a real ecosystem within the industry, creating effective
inter-regional teams that can build cooperation on the Bureau platform and plan
joint initiatives. The Russian Convention Bureau activities results this year,
projects and plans for the future are to a large extent a joint result of
cooperation with our members and partners, aimed at achieving common goals for
the industry development and gaining leading positions in the global event
market.