Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC), in conjunction with Aberdeen Convention Bureau (ACB), will host the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ALSGBI) in 2014.
The conference will be held in November over two days and is expected to attract 250 delegates to the area with an estimated economic benefit to the Northeast of £500,000.
ACB operates an Ambassador Programme allowing close working with the University of Aberdeen, Robert Gordon University, research institutes and businesses to bring conferences to the City. The ALSGBI was secured with the assistance of local ambassador, Professor Zygmunt Krukowski from the University of Aberdeen.
“The majority of conferences we work on are associations, which involved academics leading bids, and around 60 per cent of the association conferences secured for Aberdeen can be attributed to our Ambassador Programme,” says ACB’s Sales and Marketing Manager, Alesia du Plessis.
“This conference was secured with the help of Professor Zygmunt Krukowski, one of our 300 academic ambassadors, who are instrumental in working with us and our partners to secure events for Aberdeen,” she adds.
AECC’s Managing Director Brian Horsburgh, says: “Securing conferences of this stature for 2014 is excellent and reinforces the attractiveness of the City of Aberdeen.”
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