Budget Speech

Conventions and Exhibitions

57.      To upgrade the software and the hardware for developing these industries, I chair a cross-sector steering committee to co-ordinate measures by various departments. Such measures include facilitating immigration clearance for frequent business travellers, and enhancing co-ordination between government departments, overseas offices and non-government organisations. In addition, the HKTB set up the dedicated MEHK (Meetings and Exhibitions Hong Kong) Office last November for overseas promotion campaigns and one-stop support services. The atrium link extension of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) will be completed in the first half of this year. This will increase the HKCEC's dedicated exhibition space by 40 per cent.