Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) together with a strong travel trade delegation promoted the city as a business tourism destination at the 16th Incentive Travel & Conventions, Meetings Asia 2008 held in Bangkok last week, and brought home the top award for the best booth at the event.

The booth of Macau at Incentive Travel & Conventions, Meetings Asia (IT&CMA) received the gold award for the category Stickiest National Pavilion. The prize is awarded to the country or territory which booth stands out from the crowd, by decision of a panel of juries. Organizers announced the winners of this year on 9 October at the Sticky Awards Luncheon. IT&CMA was held between 7 and 9 of October.

MGTO booth at the event was decorated with the colorful campaign Experience Macau and gathered under the same roof close to twenty Macau travel trade representatives, coming from hotels, convention and exhibition venues, travel agencies, event and destination management companies, theme park, among others.

During the tradeshow, organizers invited Macau to conduct media briefing on October 8, which was attended by more than 30 media from the different parts of the globe.

Taking the convenience of time and location, on October 10, after IT&CMA, MGTO held jointly with Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau a business session named MICE Macau & Thailand Seminar. The seminar brought together more than 30 representatives from corporate companies, travel-related agents and media from Thailand with around twenty representatives from Macau, for service and products update and business discussion.

In its 16th year, IT&CMA was launched with the objective of promoting the Asia-Pacific region as a meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) destination. The event is the region’s premier meetings and incentive travel show and is attended by thousands of delegates from around 40 countries and territories.