Meetings & Conventions Feed

2010-05-13

M&C Blog – on Destination Halifax’s social media community site – features tips and perspectives from the Halifax meetings industry tailored to meeting planners Destination Halifax’s social media community site, Halifax Sociable!, offers a new resource to meeting planners thinking about hosting events in Halifax, Nova Scotia with a new M&C blog. The M&C blog at Halifax Sociable! features tips and news updates from the Halifax meetings industry."Meeting planners are busy," says Hélène Moberg, Destination Halifax’s Executive Director of Sales. "They need to be able to easily access information to get the job done. The M&C blog is just another way...

2009-12-10

Destination Halifax introduces an online meeting planner with comprehensive Halifax conference and convention planning details as part of new green initiative The newly launched 2010 Halifax Meeting & Convention Planner, makes hosting an event in Halifax, Nova Scotia easier to research and book. A comprehensive resource produced by Destination Halifax, the 2010 Halifax Meeting and Convention Planner includes capacity charts, Halifax hotels and meeting services, entertainment and dining options, unique venues and year-round festivals and events listings for the Greater Halifax area. Other features include a look back at Halifax history and pre- and post options across Nova Scotia. This year for...

2009-11-04

Collaborative approach to Halifax conventions, including CanSPEP and the Halifax International Security Forum, coupled with destination’s rich history makes city a “natural choice” for meetings and conferences. Halifax, Nova Scotia will be in the spotlight during two key events being hosted in the city this November. Influential meeting planners from across Canada will see the best of what Halifax offers as an event destination during the 2009 Canadian Society of Professional Event Planners (CanSPEP) conference (November 12-15). The following week, the first Halifax International Security Forum (November 20-22) brings security policymakers, opinion leaders and analysts from six continents to Halifax. “Hosting these two...

2009-05-11

Halifax is gearing up to welcome large international congresses, meetings, and major events, thanks to a memorandum of understanding signed Monday, May 4, 2009 by Premier Rodney MacDonald and Mayor Peter Kelly. The document commits the Province and Halifax Regional Municipality to work together in an effort to have a new convention centre up and running in downtown Halifax by January 1, 2013. “This is a critical piece of our overall major events strategy,” said Scott Ferguson, Interim President & CEO for Trade Centre Limited, the Nova Scotia crown corporation that manages Halifax’s World Trade & Convention Centre. “A new...