CONFERENCE REVIEW
ICES Singapore Conference Breathes New
Life into MICE Industry Conferences
Gaylene Levesque, MEd
Just when conference attendees were becoming tired of poorly planned
conferences that served up the same old speakers in the same old venues,
with the same old dry biscuits and coffee, along came a conference that
reminded attendees why the internet will never replace a well-planned and
interesting gathering of academics and professionals in the MICE industry.
The International Convention & Exposition Summit 2008 (ICES) conference
co-hosted by Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University
of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), Singapore, was held February 14–16
in Singapore. The conference, which was planned and executed by the
students of UNLV’s only overseas campus—located in Singapore—was
attended by academics and professionals from eleven countries, who enjoyed
the delicious food, fascinating sights, wonderful networking opportunities,
and inter