Indonesia Grows its Meeting & Conference Sector

ICMITM: Indonesian Corporate Meeting and Incentive Travel Mart May 8-12, 2012 in Medan, North Sumatra

(3/4/2012) 

The Ministry of Tourism and the Creative Economy in cooperation with American Express/Bank Danamon are hosting the Indonesian Corporate Meeting and Incentive Travel Mart (ICMITM) in Medan, North Sumatra May 8-12, 2012.

A delegation comprised of Berman Lubis, Director of MICE at the Ministry of Tourism and the Creative Economy; Darwin, Sr. Vice President from Amex/Danamon; Silvy Widyaningrum, Corporate Card Head at Amex/Danamon; and Indra Sakti Madewa of PT Citramedia Karyasakti who are managing the mart traveled to Bali on Monday, February 27, 2012 to brief the Bali travel industry on the Medan event.

During the Bali meeting, Berman Lubis spoke of the government’s plans to increase to 10% the total share of meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) from the total travel market. For comparison purposes, Singapore estimates 30% of all travel to the Republic is MICE-related, while Indonesia put the current market share for MICE at only 3.7%.

ICMITM will host 100 top corporate travel decision makers to a four-day of one-on-meetings with Indonesian MICE operators and a busy program of hosted tours and dinners in Medan and the surrounding areas of North Sumatra.

During an intense set of tabletop meetings; each hosted buyer is expected to meet with a corresponding 100 sellers during the course of 10,000 guaranteed B2B business meetings.

The organizers of the even are spreading the invitations for selected sellers across Indonesia’s leading MICE destinations and MICE operators in order to present Indonesia’s many diverse opportunities for corporate meetings, conferences and incentives across the archipelago.

ICMITM will be headquartered at the Santika Premiere Dyandra Hotel and Convention Center in Medan.

Source: BaliDiscovery.com