13 June 2011
Bonvo, FGC ink Asia Pacific travel deal
Singapore, 13th June 2011 –
Bonvo Travel is set to expand its foothold in the corporate travel business here, after inking a deal with Fleming Gulf Conferences (FGC) to be its official travel partner in the Asia Pacific region.
Bonvo General Manager, Andy Michaels Lim, said for a start, the company will provide FGC with corporate travel management and related services covering flight arrangements, accommodations and leisure programmes.
“The deal will see us managing the land and air travel arrangements for over 1,200 senior-level delegates from the Asia Pacific who will attend eight major FGC-organised conferences in the region in the next 12 months.
“As these delegates come from Fortune 500 companies in blue-chip sectors such as Finance, Pharmaceuticals, Oil & Gas, Human Resources, Transport, Investment and Healthcare, they naturally expect an exceptional level of service which we are well experienced to provide,” he said.
Lim said the Meetings Incentives Conferences & Exhibitions (MICE) industry has also played an instrumental role in attracting international visitors to the region, and this has further helped to grow Bonvo’s business.
Quoting statistics from the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), he said the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies welcomed over 40% of all international arrivals in 2010, while preliminary figures for 2011 show a year-on-year increase of 5%.
“In Singapore, international visitor arrivals reached 3.12 million in the first quarter of 2011 alone, resulting in a 15.7% year-on-year growth, according to figures from the Singapore Tourism Board (STB).
“All these augur well for our tourist travel business. And now that we are increasing our profile in the corporate travel sector as well, we have no doubt that Bonvo’s business will grow at a greater pace,” Lim said.
He said the Bonvo-FGC deal will kick off with the 2nd Annual Asia Islamic Banking Conference, to be held in Kuala Lumpur this July 4 and 5, followed by the Asia Pacific HSE Forum in Oil & Gas & Petrochemicals from Sept 20 to 22.
FGC’s proprietary conferences cover topics ranging from aviation, defence, banking and finance, oil and gas, life sciences, energy, transportation, telecommunications and construction.
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