Trade show. “This part of Europe has got a great potential for incentive programs. I thought that my participation at Conventa would help my understanding of the region and might help the region to develop as well,” said Carolyn Dow, SITE President Europe. The next Conventa, the South-East European Exhibition for Meetings, Events & Incentive Travel, will take place on 21 and 22 January 2010 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is organised by the Slovenian Convention Bureau. Its partners are the Slovenian Tourist Board, Ljubljana Tourist Board, Ljubljana Exhibition & Convention Centre, HelmsBriscoe, Reed Exhibitions – EIBTM and MPI – Meetings Professionals International.
Through Conventa, the region of South-East Europe is making its stand in the global meetings industry. Conventa is the meetings and incentive trade show for the region of South-East Europe which offers space for new possibilities and great ideas. The region of South-East Europe, mostly undiscovered, extends from Slovenia through Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania and Bulgaria to Greece.
Conventa enables over 3.000 one-to-one meetings between exhibitors and strictly selected hosted buyers. 50 meeting planners mainly from Europe, but also other parts of the world will be selected for the Hosted Buyer Programme which will enable them to experience the richness of this undiscovered part of Europe.
They will be able to meet and conduct business with more than 80 meetings industry provides from South-East Europe, i.e. congress and exhibition centres, convention hotels, hotels with conference facilities, special event venues, PCO, DMC, incentive and event agencies, local, regional and national convention and visitor bureaus, technology providers etc.
At the previous trade show 90.9 % of exhibitors and 90.6 % of hosted buyers reviewed Conventa as a trade show to their complete satisfaction.
