The Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs is open for new projects
A general meeting of members of the Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs (RUEF) was held in Rostov-on-Don on May 21-22, 2007. This time the meeting participants discussed significant for Russia in general and especially for the regions development of the Russian exhibition business.
Such meetings are not just some kinds of formality, but effective measures aimed at finding some real positive solutions for improving the exhibition strategy of Russia. These meetings are designed to review and discuss relevant issues and questions of exhibition area. The leading players of exhibition business in Russia, exhibition organizers, whose activities shape and define the industry, as well as representatives of state and public structures, gather at such meetings. Together they discuss some new joint projects, ways to improve Russia’s attractiveness as a platform and an organizer of large-scale international events.
At the General Meeting of members of the Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs in Rostov-on-Don, questions in the legislation of exhibition and fair activities, problems of competition in the exhibition business, the standards of internal audit of conducted exhibitions and other equally relevant topics were raised.
The General Meeting of the RUEF was attended by the International Exhibition Company President, Andrey Lapshin. He told the Assembly about the new image project, The North Pole - new opportunities in life and business, launched on April 23, 2007 at the North Pole. The aim of the project is to create a mobile historical and patriotic museum, The Role of HISTORY in life and in business. The museum was created in honor of the 70th anniversary of the two heroic expeditions: the first Soviet drifting station, The North Pole-1 of O. Schmidt and I. Papanin, as well as flight crews of V. Chkalov and M. Gromov over the North Pole. During the year, participants and guests to more than one hundred MVK exhibitions in Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Kazan, as well as residents of St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Rostov-on-Don, are to see over the museum exposition. In his speech, Andrey V. Lapshin also encouraged exhibitors to join this important project and offered to place the historical and patriotic museum at major exhibitions in some Russian cities.