Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau or TCEB has announced two projects focusing on digital-based MICE services and health safety standard.
The first called “Virtual Meeting Space” (VMS) will help MICE entrepreneurs run business events online and re-skill their employees via virtual platforms. The second, called “Simple Ways to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 in Your Meetings and Events”, offers MICE venue owners and operators an incentive to upgrade their safety and health standards. The two projects are in response to the business disruptions brought about by COVID-19 and lockdown measures worldwide.

Statement from the Organisers.”In light of the changing global situation relating to the COVID-19 virus, we have continued to monitor the impact it is having not just on our industry, but on society in general. Many meetings took place with the Dubai World Trade Centre and we reviewed other options to organise an event in the last quarter. However, after consultation with our key stakeholders and after listening to our industry, ultimately it became apparent that the best course of action, and with everyone’s best interests in mind, is to postpone the event to 2021.

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Following today’s news that Hong Kong tourism chief, Dane Cheng, has stated that tourism will be returning back to normality in July and the destination will be focusing on attracting mainland visitors and new markets;
Amber Barnes, Travel and Tourism Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers her view on the recent announcement:

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EVERYONE MATTERS . TCEB,Thailand Convention & Event Bureau, has sent out a statement about the Corona Crisis:
“The question ‘how are you?’ has never been more relevant as everyone manages this pandemic to the best of his or her ability.
Our thoughts continue to be with those who are going through very tough times. We applaud those who have reached out and helped fellow industry colleagues who are in need. We echo global sentiments that our focus must be placed on people – especially their physical and mental wellbeing. To us, everyone matters.

The US tourism & leisure industry saw a drop of 18.9% in overall deal activity during February 2020, when compared with the last 12-month average, according to GlobalData’s deals database.A total of 30 deals worth $458.86m were announced in February 2020, compared to the 12-month average of 37 deals.
M&A was the leading category in the month in terms of volume with 19 deals which accounted for 63.3% of all deals.In second place was venture financing with seven deals, followed by private equity with four transactions, respectively accounting for 23.3% and 13.3% of overall deal activity in the country’s tourism & leisure industry during the month.