MACAU BUSINESS
Alidad Tash, founder and managing director of gaming Two events, two places
The return of Asian IR Expo + G2E Asia in Macau next month follows the conclusion of the three-day G2E Asia Special Edition: Singapore 2023 on June 1. The gaming trade Asia city-state last year, as COVID- related travel restrictions prevented the hosting of any international and regional expos in Macau in the past three years.
“There are a lot of non-gaming
components and sectors [in the event] in Macau. In Singapore, it’s 100 per cent gaming related,” Mr Yip said, addressing the different positions of their expos in the two places.
But he did not comment on whether The exhibitors of the Asian IR Expo will be divided into
four major areas, including travel, technology, sports and esports, and art and entertainment, according to the information advanced by RX (Reed Exhibitions). In the same vein, the three-day conference programme of the Asian IR Summit will focus on different themes, such as the travel economic outlook, the post-Covid era of tourism development, art and entertainment tourism, and sports and health tourism. The featured speakers will include Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, director of Macau Government Tourism marketing, strategy alliances, and international public Meanwhile, the G2E Asia conference in Macau this year will only have a two-day programme on July 11-12, dissecting themes like regulatory oversight and gaming control in integrated resorts in Asia, the future 10 years of the Asian gaming industry, and the transition of VIP gaming into mass and non-gaming in the resorts. The panels of the two-day conference will see a line-up of seasoned gaming industry executives and experts, including Ed Bowers, president of global development of
this would be their model going forward in the coming years in the annual calendar of gaming events in Asia — a purely gaming expo in Singapore and gaming and non- gaming expos in Macau. They are still collecting feedback from industry stakeholders on how to arrange and shape their shows in the upcoming years, he added. Another trade show, the Greater Bay Area Hotel and Cultural & Creative Industry Expo — organised by Nam in the same location at the Venetian Macao on July 11–13, alongside the Asian IR Expo + G2E Asia. Other activities available at the Asian IR Expo + G2E Asia include the Privileges Programme, a networking opportunity for over 500 serious buyers and decision makers with purchasing power in gaming and non-gaming the ArtBiz Networking Cocktail to foster connections between the arts and cultural industry and the integrated resorts in Asia.
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