One more convention venue for 7,000 seats will be developed in the Baltic Pearl residential complex in St. Petersburg. This was announced by the member of the Government of St. Petersburg, Chairman of the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg Alexander Prokhorenko at the conference 'Russia - Asia: trade and economic cooperation; the role of exhibition and convention industry in the development of Russia and Asia' (Part 1) that opened the business programme of the EFEA-2014 on its second day.
Today in St. Petersburg, an extended meeting of the RF CCI Committee on Fair and Exhibition Activities was held in the course of the first day of the Europe+Asia Event Forum. The meeting was opened by Sergey Sergeyevich Bednov, Chairman of the RF CCI Committee on Fair and Exhibition Activities, General Director of Expocentre.
The market volume of the exhibition and convention activities in 2013 was approximately $780 million. This was announced today to the press by Sergey Bednov, Chairman of the RF CCI Committee on Fair and Exhibition Activities, General Director of Expocentre at the Europe+Asia Event Forum media scrum today.
Venue management, one of the most topical and sought after areas in the sphere of business events will be discussed in the sessions of the Europe+Asia Event Forum (EFEA 2014).