Professional Exhibition Organisers:

India Convention Promotion Bureau (ICPB) is a management oriented organisation that has been promoting and establishing India as a preferred MICE destination. The Chairman of ICPB is the Joint Secretary, Tourism, Government of India, currently is the Chairman of ICPB. In the newly elected board are:

Managing Director, Alpcord Network Travel & Conferences Management Company as Vice-Chairman. Managing Director, A T & Seasons Vacations Travel is the new Honorary Secretary of ICPB. The election for the governing board of ICPB happens every alternate year, and this year it was held under the supervision of

Assistant Director General ( TT) as Returning Officer. The rest of the members in various categories are as follows: Head of MICE, Eastbound Tours & Travels and Managing Partner & Director-CHIME Sanjay Soni, Chief Knowledge Director, Incredible Design

Avinash Browne, Director, Sun Business Machines Pvt. Ltd. and Ripudaman Singh Chauhan, GM, Translink Express “We have a good team in place. The idea is to increase the number of members from 100 to 500 and broaden the base and really take ICPB to a leadership position for MICE and convention to play the role that it is envisaged to do.” shows across India, training programmes, g rea te r participation of ICPB in major international trade shows. We will be holding the Convention India Conclave, the flagship programme of ICPB, on a bigger scale, preferably outside Delhi with more international organisations like ICCA and IMEX participating in the event. The other priority area will be the membership drive. The vision is to open ICPB Chapters in major state capitals. Market research study is another important segment. Unless we know the size of the MICE industry and the economic impact, the stakeholders cannot plan their priorities for creating additional infrastructure and work on promotional activities. The vision is mainly to take MICE policy recommendations to the Ministry of Tourism which we will deliberate with the members and then forward it to the ministry.”