Iloilo City charms national conventions
All roads lead to Iloilo Convention Center (ICC) in Megaworld Iloilo Business Park in Mandurriao district for the various national conventions of hundreds of delegates successively scheduled this September until October.
"The consecutive big gatherings boost the city's growing reputation as ideal convention destination. These giant events are testaments to the city's great economic potentials and create multiplier effects providing income and employment opportunities for the Ilonggos," stressed Mayor Jed Patrick E. Mabilog.
ICC alone has been a major crowd drawer attracting professionals who will stay in hotels and spend for food, shopping and recreational activities, thus benefitting the Ilonggo hospitality as well as transportation industries and related sectors.
The Association of Service Professionals in Life Insurance (ASPLI) expected 150 participants from leading insurance companies for its Annual Summit at ICC Sept. 8-10.
The Subdivision and Housing Developers Association, Inc. (SHDA), the largest organization of real estate developers will hold its 25th National Convention at ICC on Sept. 22-23.
The Association of Certified Public Accountants in Public Practice (ACPAPP) will also hold its 16th Annual National Convention at ICC on Sept. 22-24.
The Child Neurology Society Philippines, Inc. (CNSP) will conduct its 10th Biennial Scientific Convention at ICC on Oct. 5-7.
"It is with great pleasure to inform that we have chosen Iloilo City as venue and we shall be inviting pediatricians, neurologists, family physicians and general practitioners to converge in your great city," CNSP President Victoria G. Bael and convention chairman Ruth G. Valeriano wrote Mabilog.
The Philippine College Physicians (PCP) will also conduct its 23rd Midyear Convention at ICC on Oct. 12-13.
The Integrated Midwives Association of the Philippines (IMAP) will converge for its 42nd Annual Convention at ICC on Oct. 18-21. (Iloilo City PIO)