MICE events down 2.2 pct in Q3

2013-11-26

From：Macau Daily Times

There were a total of 218 MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions) events held in Macau in the third quarter of 2013, down 2.2 percent from last year, according to figures released yesterday by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). The average duration of the MICE events was two days, drawing a total of 623,000 participants and attendees. There were 197 meetings and conferences held in the third quarter of 2013, with the number of participants surging by 92 percent year-on-year to 30,000, on account of an increase in the number of conferences and participants in corporate meetings.
Twenty-one exhibitions were organized, and the number of exhibition attendees totaled 593,000, according to the DSEC figures.The figures also indicated that MICE events decreased by 45 from a year earlier to 728 in the first three quarters of 2012, while the number of participants and attendees reached 991,602, up by 29 percent year-on-year.

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