News this week: In a bid become an international MICE destination, the Malaysian state
of Penang plans to set-up a new convention and visitors’ bureau (CVB) along
with plans to develop several new MICE facilities and hotels in the coming
years.
The new Subterranean Penang International Convention & Exhibition
Centre (sPICE) will consist of a 500 person ballroom and it is scheduled open
in 2015. There will be one hotel within sPICE and another in close proximity which
will offer more than 400 rooms and is expected to open in 2014. Another
convention facility, The Light Waterfront Penang will have a capacity of 8,000 people and is
scheduled to open in 2017.
Penang state minister for Tourism Development & Culture, Danny Law
said, “With such (upcoming) facilities, we need to have a CVB to market Penang
and to ensure that we can bring business to them. From next year on, PITM will
not only sell Penang to international buyers, but also products of South-east
Asia.”
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