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Picture by Stewart Attwood By Scott Wright ONE of Scotland’s biggest events destinations has underlined its confidence in the future of the conference market to rebound from the pandemic as it revealed it will host three major international conventions in the second half of next year. Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) announced yesterday that it will stage the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine, Cleantech Forum Europe, and the Society for Endocrinology conferences in September, October and November 2021. The events are respectively expected to attract1,000, 400 and 1,000 delegates respectively. The coup comes at the end of hugely damaging year for the Scottish conference and events sector, with the EICC last having held a major gathering in the middle of March – before the first lockdown to suppress the coronavirus infection rate was introduced.
Edinburgh secures three major conferences for 2021
EICC) has secured three major conferences for 2021. The British Society of Lifestyle Medicine is set to take place in September 2021, Cleantech Forum Europe in October 2021 and the Society for Endocrinology in November 2021.
EICC CEO Marshall Dallas said: “It would be a huge understatement to say we are looking forward to the return of conferences next year, particularly in light of the challenging time our team has faced since the pandemic took hold and we closed doors at the venue back in March. There are typically long lead times in the conference and events industry, so we relish the opportunity to plan ahead for these three major conferences, and we continue to take bookings for large-scale conferences for late 2021 and into 2022.”