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Feature Convention & Exhibition Centres 28 MAY-JUN 2018 MEETINGS & CONVENTIONS MCMAG-ASIA.COM ICC Kyoto MOVING FORWARD Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto) is expecting to launch its new hall in the last quarter of the year. It will showcase a 2,000 sqm multi-purpose space and accommodate up to 2,500 attendees. Built adjacent to the existing event hall, the new hall will create a seamless 5,000 sqm venue on the same oor for more than 4,000 attendees. EVENT HIGHLIGHTS Reception parties for International Photography Festival at the Main Lounge and a corporate incentive event at the Japanese Garden Planning The reception for the International Photography Festival welcomed 500 guests comprising VIPs, sponsors, partners, artists and performers. Special lighting using air-inated balloons and LED lights Marina Bay Sands MOVING FORWARD Refurbishment works on all 2,561 rooms and suites were completed end-2017. New restaurants to the integrated resort include The Bird Southern Table and Bar and LAVO Italian Restaurant and Rooftop Bar, with New York-based restaurant Black Tap Craft Burgers & Beer to open in Q3 this year. EVENT HIGHLIGHT Global Leadership Conference and YPO EDGE 2018 sees the world's largest gathering of chief executives each year convening on key issues in business, politics, science, technology, philanthropy and the humanities. Experience Themed "Defy Convention", the ve-day event was spread out across a diverse range of venues from large ballrooms and meeting rooms to private restaurant venues and spaces. Service For delegates, personal touches customised for the event include a dedicated check-in counter for YPO attendees, special retail experience at The Shoppes and customised on-property branding for YPO during the event week. For its VIP group, no eort was spared; enhanced the mood by lighting up the pillars and other building elements. There was also a live performance incorporating the guitar and the tsugaru- jamisen, a three-stringed instrument used for traditional music. For the corporate event, reworks released from the adjacent lake gave a dramatic air to the evening, while 3D mapping and laser beams projected onto the façade of ICC Kyoto gave an artistic yet high-tech feel to the ambience. Contact: sales@icckyoto.or.jp "After the opening of "After the opening of the New Hall, ICC Kyoto the New Hall, ICC Kyoto expects a high demand expects a high demand for its facilities, and the for its facilities, and the centre will be customising centre will be customising menus to suit the tastes menus to suit the tastes of diverse global guests. of diverse global guests. Also, from October, we will Also, from October, we will partner several key hotels partner several key hotels in Kyoto for "Your Choice" in Kyoto for "Your Choice" catering service, which will catering service, which will be available exclusively for be available exclusively for the New Hall and the Event the New Hall and the Event Hall." Hall." TERUYO SEKI, DIRECTOR OF SALES TERUYO SEKI, DIRECTOR OF SALES TEXT NAOMI NEOH TEXT NAOMI NEOH Right: The Global Leadership Conference and YPO EDGE 2018 attracted participants such as this Tiger Beer booth at the Venture Marketplace. Delegates at a corporate incentive event were dazzled by fireworks launched from the lake facing ICC Kyoto.

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