News this week: According to Meet
Taiwan, Taiwan’s MICE
promotion programme organised by the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT), Taiwan
will have more MICE capacity in the next three years with construction taking
place in Taipei, Kaohsiung and Taichung.
The additional
venue capacity includes the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center which opened in April 2014. The
construction of further exhibition space at the Taipei
World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall will be completed in 2017 and will be able to host a further 5,000
booths. The Taichung Convention and Exhibition Center will have a capacity of
more than 3,350 booths, and is expected to be operational in the fourth quarter
of 2018.
Meanwhile, various prominent
local hotels are also expanding their MICE facilities, with Marriott Taipei to open
a convention centre in the second quarter this year. The centre will have a
capacity of approximately 2,000 persons. Overall, in 2015, Taiwan is expecting
to welcome 12 international conferences and attract several thousand
participants.
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