Busan is good

City stands tall as global convention hub

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Draws series of large international events

 

Busan City has cemented its position as the global exhibition and convention

hub, attracting one large international event after another.

 

The city, which successfully hosted the APEC summit in 2005, is promoting its image as a global exhibition and convention hub by reinvigorating the operation of its Busan Convention & Visitors Bureau and conducting active overseas marketing to make a leap into the Northeast Asian center of convention and Pacific-rim exchanges.

 

Busan has arranged 31 international conferences as of the end of July, attaining 84 percent of its annual goal of 37 events. The seven-month figure tells the city would show performance far exceeding its yearly objective, considering most of the latter half-year has yet to come. The city will also likely easily surpass the total 36 international conferences it drew for the whole of 2007.

 

Busan is not only attracting international conferences, but drawing the international community's attention to its abundant tourism resources and excellent convention facilities. Though concerted efforts of the city, Busan Convention & Visitors Bureau and the BEXCO, the "2009 OECD Global Forum" will be held here next year. More than 1,500 guests from 150 countries will attend the four-day event at BEXCO in October 2009. It will be the governmentorganized event to be attended by the largest number and highest levels of foreign visitors, including the representatives of major international organizations, such as the United Nations, World Bank, UND P, ECB and UNESCO, as well as the founders of  world-famous business corporations such as IBM and Google, and Nobel laureates.

 

Among other international conferences the city has drawn so far are Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, APAO 2012 to be attended by more than 6,000 visitors from 16 countries and the third International Convergence Information Technology Conference.

 

The source of news : Dynamic Busan