THE Malaysia Convention & Exhibition Bureau (MyCEB) is spurring association executives to group themselves into an association by next year.
Tai Lee Fen, MyCEB’s manager – association development, said an association of associations would give them one voice in tackling common challenges and they can have advocacies.
Even as the association is not yet in existence, so strong is the bureau’s support for it that it already held in Kuala Lumpur in November what would be the group’s first annual conference, Malaysia Association neXt.
Tai said 120 people graced the event which is meant to create a platform for all associations to learn, exchange ideas, network and debate issues that impact them.
She revealed that MyCEB could provide funding support to the association, such as for the secretariat.
While the bureau has 500 national associations on its database, it is not yet known how many of them will join the planned association.
Tai said there are many examples around the world where the society for association executives have been successfully established including in the United States, Australia and the Philippines.
