Thoughts from the airport

Various things on my mind this morning as I sit at the aiport en route to Korea for the 2007 Asia CEO Forum. I always enjoy being in Seoul and it will be interesting to see who's there this year.

Following up our piece yesterday on the Standard story about HKTDC's plans for Phase 3 of HK Convention & Exhibition Centre, we see a small piece in today's South China Morning Post (I can't find it online although it would be behind their firewall anway) which might best be described as damage limitation.

It basically says that studies are still underway and that there will be more news next year. In other words, the behind-the-scenes lobbying isn't finished yet and they're not ready to engage in the public battle over a major new building on the waterfront.

The other thing catching our eye this morning is a pretty upbeat press release from Reed about last week's Asian Aerospace. So far, they're saying that the industry likes the focused B2B-only style of the show and that they had 11,000 visitors. So far, no word of where the event will take place in 2009 although dates have been announced. We assume that vigourous lobbying is under way and await the final result with great interest.