The experienced team of the Messe Berlin Congress Division will be aiming to attract business nationally and internationally with a new name: Messe Berlin Conventions. Dr. Ralf G. Kleinhenz, Vice President Messe Berlin Conventions: “We are confident that the combination of a globally recognised brand, Messe Berlin, and our activity description, Conventions, will send out a strong message to our customers regardless of our building location: that we organise congresses at the highest, international level in one of the most fascinating cities in the world.“
For more than 33 years the team of the International Congress Center Berlin (ICC Berlin) has successfully organised large-scale international congresses and events. As a result, Europe’s largest congress centre is the six-times winner of the World Travel Award and has also been honoured with other awards. Initially, the team’s activities focused only on the ICC Berlin, but it now organises MICE events on the entire exhibition grounds. Among the venues frequently used are the Marshall Haus, the Palais am Funkturm, the spacious South Entrance and the modern halls adjacent to it.
In September of this year the opening of the new exhibition grounds at Berlin ExpoCenter Airport signalled the beginning of a new chapter for Messe Berlin’s congress business as well. Thus the first event on the new grounds, the ILA Berlin Air Show, played host to more than 100 supporting congresses, conferences and meetings.
At the beginning of 2014 the team of Messe Berlin Conventions will face another challenge. The ICC Berlin will close for renovation work and subsequently the CityCube Berlin, a new multi-functional congress and trade fair venue, will open for business. This building is currently under construction on the site of the former Deutschlandhalle, next door to the South Entrance of the exhibition grounds. In the future, there will be room for up to 10,000 people at events in the CityCube Berlin, which is already almost fully booked up for 2014. Numerous inquiries have already been made by major national and international organisers for 2015.
