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Building on a record year with more shows, visitors and venues
Building on a record year with more shows, visitors and venues

Building on a record year with more shows, visitors and venues

While our 2018 plans begin to unfold, we at TCEB have also been taking time to reflect on 2017; a year in which we made significant progress in boosting our offering to overseas organisers. It was a year of recognition, praised for reforms by the World Bank in its Doing Business report, demonstrating our enriched proposition to event organisers in areas such as investment protection, business start-up aid and contract security. Further ratings improvement came courtesy of recent UFI statistics, [...]

By TCEB| 2018-02-22T08:11:01+00:00 February 21st, 2018|All, Asia – Pacific, Exhibition Industry Research|0 Comments

Thailand becomes one of the top 10 most improved places to do business
Thailand becomes one of the top 10 most improved places to do business

Thailand becomes one of the top 10 most improved places to do business

One of Thailand’s greatest success stories in 2017 was seeing its reputation as a destination for business events elevated by the World Bank Group’s latest Doing Business Thailand’s position in the report, a measure of the ease of doing business in 182 countries around the world, rose from 48th to 26th – overtaking countries including Japan. More impressively, Thailand was among the top 10 countries to see economic improvement across three or more areas. In total the World Bank picked out eight [...]

By TCEB| 2018-01-16T12:56:08+00:00 January 2nd, 2018|Asia – Pacific, Exhibition Industry|0 Comments

ASEAN opportunity for exhibition organisers
ASEAN opportunity for exhibition organisers

ASEAN opportunity for exhibition organisers

Much like the exhibitions we trade in, Smart Cities promote industrial development and digital innovation. As hubs for digital services able to connect foreign countries, they attract digital workers, investors and software companies from around the world. The Phuket province will host the first smart city in Thailand, re-conceived around the notions of flexibility, ease of doing business and overseas investment, with an overall revision of potentially obstructive trading laws and regulations. T [...]

By TCEB| 2018-01-22T17:03:39+00:00 December 7th, 2017|All, Asia – Pacific, Digital Innovation, Exhibition Industry|0 Comments

Interview with TCEB’s new exhibitions director
Interview with TCEB’s new exhibitions director

Interview with TCEB’s new exhibitions director

Hidden among the many news stories that unfolded at this year’s UFI Global Congress was one that TCEB is particularly proud of. The promotion of Kanokporn Damrongkul (Kelly) to Director of Exhibitions begins a new chapter in our organization’s exciting story and continues the legacy created by Jaruwan, who assumes a new directorship at our MICE Intelligence & Innovation Department. A familiar face at UFI events, Kelly is a longstanding member of TCEB. Here she gives her thoughts on the indus [...]

By TCEB| 2018-01-22T17:29:56+00:00 November 9th, 2017|All, Asia – Pacific, Digital Innovation|0 Comments

An emerging exhibition market bursting with energy
An emerging exhibition market bursting with energy

An emerging exhibition market bursting with energy

Blogger: Mrs. Jaruwan Suwannasat Director, Exhibition and Events Department of TCEB Thailand has made great efforts to reduce its dependence on imported and fossil fuel energy in recent years, doubling its production of renewable-energy to 30 per cent by 2036. The government aims to reduce greenhouse gases by 25 per cent in the same period; a bold commitment given Thailand’s fast growing and power hungry middle class. The country is well positioned to lead the development of renewable energy in [...]

By TCEB| 2017-12-08T09:26:53+00:00 October 3rd, 2017|All, Asia – Pacific|0 Comments

Eastern development poses fresh opportunity for tradeshow organisers
Eastern development poses fresh opportunity for tradeshow organisers

Eastern development poses fresh opportunity for tradeshow organisers

Blogger: Mrs. Jaruwan Suwannasat Director, Exhibition and Events Department of TCEB The Eastern Economic Corridor, or EEC, is a pivotal initiative for Thailand as we progress towards our socio-economic goal of Thailand 4.0. It will be the most complete and specialised economic zone in Thailand, perhaps even in the ASEAN, containing commercial metropolises built around future industries and providing an investor’s gateway to Asia. For more than 30 years Thailand’s eastern seaboard has been the ce [...]

By TCEB| 2017-12-08T09:29:07+00:00 September 5th, 2017|All, Asia – Pacific|0 Comments

TCEB’s new President sets out vision for targeted growth
TCEB’s new President sets out vision for targeted growth

TCEB’s new President sets out vision for targeted growth

Blogger: Mr. Talun Theng, President, Thai Exhibition Association (TEA) It was wonderful to witness TCEB's newly-appointed president Chiruit Isarangkun Na Ayuthaya officially commence his tenure by highlighting the impact international business events have on domestic growth and stability. It is expected that in the 2017 budget year, there will be a total of 27.1 million MICE travellers in Thailand, generating revenue of approximately 4.4 billion USD. And it is the role of those international vis [...]

By TCEB| 2017-12-08T09:32:35+00:00 August 3rd, 2017|All, Asia – Pacific, Management|0 Comments

A healthy market for an evolving healthcare industry
A healthy market for an evolving healthcare industry

A healthy market for an evolving healthcare industry

Blogger: Mrs. Jaruwan Suwannasat Director, Exhibition and Events Department of TCEB Evolving healthcare technologies, a rising middle class increasingly able to afford them, as well as an ageing population that needs them, is taking Southeast Asia’s health and wellness industry into a new era. And in the centre of the region, Thailand’s healthcare and wellness industry is particularly well positioned for commercialisation, due in part to the Government’s Thailand 4.0 vision. Or so said a panel o [...]

By TCEB| 2017-12-08T09:35:56+00:00 July 3rd, 2017|All, Asia – Pacific|0 Comments

Paving the way to successful business events
Paving the way to successful business events

Paving the way to successful business events

Blogger: Mrs. Jaruwan Suwannasat Director, Exhibition and Events Department of TCEB According to the recently released World Economic Forum’s Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2017, the number of foreign tourists to Thailand is expected to double to 60 million in the next 13 years. This figure is great news for both exhibitions and the MICE industry. So the news that Thailand is well into the process of developing its transportation infrastructure – and in particular its railway system [...]

By TCEB| 2017-12-08T09:41:05+00:00 June 20th, 2017|All, Asia – Pacific|0 Comments

Creating evolution in The World’s Kitchen
Creating evolution in The World’s Kitchen

Creating evolution in The World’s Kitchen

Blogger: Mrs. Jaruwan Suwannasat Director, Exhibition and Events Department of TCEB Maintaining a reputation as the 'World's Kitchen' does not come easily, but it is a reputation that Thailand can consider well deserved. Take for example, . Thailand registered US$4.3 billion in food shipments to the US in 2016, an increase of 10 per cent on the previous year. In the first three months of this year alone, the US received US$873 million of food exports from Thailand, the bulk of which comprised ca [...]

By TCEB| 2017-12-08T09:41:59+00:00 June 2nd, 2017|All, Asia – Pacific, Exhibition Industry Research|0 Comments

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