APIEM`s UK Headquarters (APIEM House) is in the city of Leeds in the north of England – 2.5 hours by train from London. As the HQ of APIEM it provides office space for President David Hind when he is working in the UK and also provides comfortable overnight accommodation for the guests of APIEM when they are visiting the UK … Read More

APIEM was launched in 2016 and has enjoyed two successful years of operation. When it was launched APIEM was governed by a UK registered company the Travel Industry Academy Ltd (TIA). TIA provided the legal home of APIEM. As APIEM continues to grow and expand the founders of APIEM have created a new UK registered company to provide the governance … Read More

The APIEM Gold Badge of Honour is awarded to events/MICE professionals who have made, and continue to make, an outstanding contribution to the professionalization of the Asia Pacific events/MICE industry through their work. It is always a great pleasure for me as President of APIEM to formally pin the Gold Badge to each worthy recipient. Gold Badges have so far … Read More

It`s a great pleasure for APIEM to receive membership applications from professionals not just from Asia Pacific but from many other regions of the world. Our two most recent members are Dr Marina Gunare and Dr Olga Subanova. Dr Marina is a senior academic at the Baltic International Academy in Riga, Latvia, northern Europe. She teaches and researches in events … Read More

The 1st APIEM Seniors Meeting has been held at the Bandung Institute of Tourism, West Java, Indonesia. The purpose of the meeting was for the founding partners of APIEM to meet for the first time and to get-to-know each other. Delegates came from Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and the United Kingdom. This historic business meeting was organised in its entirety … Read More

APIEM as well as accrediting universities, polytechnics and colleges in Asia Pacific that want to become an APIEM Centre of Excellence also welcomes educational institutions located in other regions of the world that want to join the APIEM network. The APIEM Educational Member scheme enables universities that want to work with APIEM to join the APIEM network. London Metropolitan University, … Read More

The mission of APIEM is to contribute to the professionalization of the MICE/events industry in Asia Pacific. We do this in many ways through our – Centre of Excellence accreditation scheme, our international scientific journal, training workshops for MICE/events professionals and by organising academic conferences. An exciting initiative for APIEM in 2018 is that we are going to contribute to … Read More

APIEM has been established to support the professionalization of the MICE/events industry in the Asia Pacific region. We do this in many different ways. Perhaps the most important contribution that APIEM can make to the Asia Pacific MICE/events industry is to identify those universities, polytechnics and colleges that provide a MICE/events curriculum that is of an international standard and then … Read More

The world`s largest sporting event in 2018 will be the Asian Games. The Games are being staged in Indonesia with two host cities – Jakarta (Java) and Palembang (Sumatra). The Asian Games are classified as a mega-event: they occur every four years, involve international and national government and non-government agencies, are very complex to organise, involve thousands of people and … Read More