Here’s TTGmice’s weekly round up of MICE developments outside of Asia-Pacific.
COMO Metropolitan London unveils health-focused meeting package
The 144-key COMO Metropolitan London has launched a new Healthful Meetings package.
The package is priced at £110 (US$149) per person for groups of 10 delegates or more in any of its seven meeting venues. The package includes room hire from 08.00 to 17.30; COMO Shambhala wellness juice on arrival; healthy snack boxes for each delegate; two catered refreshment breaks; complimentary Wi-Fi access; as well as the use of audiovisual facilities.
As well as healthy cuisine, delegates are invited to choose activities from the hotel’s new wellness menu. Options include 10-minute massages for team members, to hour-long sessions on stress management, meditation or the power of controlled breathing with yoga teachers.
New event venue for Las Vegas
International Market Centers (IMC) – owners and operators of World Market Center Las Vegas – have entered a partnership with the City of Las Vegas to construct a new 32,516m2 Expo Center on the campus in the heart of Las Vegas.
The Expo Center will provide exhibition and meeting space in the downtown area for corporate and private events, meetings and tradeshows, as well as service the Las Vegas Market furniture, gift and home décor trade events that attract roughly 100,000 attendees annually.
The cost of the Expo Center will be approximately US$76 million. Construction is slated to begin in the next 12 to 18 months and will take approximately 18 months to complete.
Prague to welcome a new congress centre
A new multifunctional congress centre, the O2 Universum, is being built in Prague with a budget of 1.2 billion CZK (US$55.5 million).
It will have 21 halls of varying sizes, with the largest 1,800m2 room capable of holding 4,500 people. On every floor of the complex there will be 13,000m2 of floor space for exhibitions and commercial use.
Expected to open in summer 2019, the four-storey O2 Universum will also be linked to the south portion of the existing O2 Arena.
