New launch date for HK’s MICE subsidy scheme

MICE News
Tuesday, 29 September 2020

The Hong Kong government will launch the Convention and Exhibition Industry Subsidy Scheme on 03 October 2020.  
The HK$1,020 million (US$131 million) subsidy to reinvigorate the convention and exhibition industry has been set up under the government’s Anti-epidemic Fund. Originally slated to be launched in July 2020, it was postponed following the third wave of the pandemic in the city, which caused the postponement of conventions and exhibitions that were originally scheduled to take place from mid-July to September.

The Subsidy Scheme offers to cover a 100 per cent venue rental cost for organisers of exhibitions and international conventions held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and AsiaWorld-Expo.
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre managing director Monica Lee-Müller said: “The government’s launch of the Subsidy Scheme in early October will help ease financial burdens on the local convention and exhibition industry and help it attract domestic and overseas exhibitors, buyers and conference delegates to Hong Kong, strengthening the city’s competitiveness as the region’s leading convention and exhibition hub.”

New launch date for HK’s MICE subsidy scheme

MICE News
Tuesday, 29 September 2020

The Hong Kong government will launch the Convention and Exhibition Industry Subsidy Scheme on 03 October 2020.  
The HK$1,020 million (US$131 million) subsidy to reinvigorate the convention and exhibition industry has been set up under the government’s Anti-epidemic Fund. Originally slated to be launched in July 2020, it was postponed following the third wave of the pandemic in the city, which caused the postponement of conventions and exhibitions that were originally scheduled to take place from mid-July to September.

The Subsidy Scheme offers to cover a 100 per cent venue rental cost for organisers of exhibitions and international conventions held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and AsiaWorld-Expo.
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre managing director Monica Lee-Müller said: “The government’s launch of the Subsidy Scheme in early October will help ease financial burdens on the local convention and exhibition industry and help it attract domestic and overseas exhibitors, buyers and conference delegates to Hong Kong, strengthening the city’s competitiveness as the region’s leading convention and exhibition hub.”