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CONFEC red 12

UK Buyers meet European Suppliers

2 - 5 February 2012

ABAMA Golf & Spa Resort, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

The twelfth CONFEC red forum will take place from 2 - 5 February 2012 on the beautiful island of Tenerife, Spain. Our host hotel is the magnificent ABAMA Golf & Spa Resort. Delegates will experience the awe-inspiring beauty of this luxury hotel’s idyllic location. Surrounded by lush vegetation and the sparkling Atlantic Ocean, the Abama Resort in Guía de Isora offers more hours of sunshine than any other part of Spain, as well as breathtaking beaches, a world-class spa and championship golf. In addition, this exceptional resort features the award-winning cuisine of legendary chef Martin Berasategui. The social networking programme will include some of the delights of the remarkable landscape of the island.

CONFEC red 11 took place in Marbella and has previously been held in Cyprus, Tenerife, Athens, Ireland, Lisbon, Budapest, Seville, Malta and Italy..

Thank you for the fantastic meetings and great networking opportunities.

Marilka Tovarac Valamar Hotels and Resorts

Great appointments and great organisation

Quentin Rouanet InterContinental Paris Le Grand

Having the chance of meeting buyers that are actually interested in our product and have business to bring is always very rewarding.

Raquel Ramos Dom Pedro Hotels

It allows me to meet a maximum of quality buyers in a very short period of time.

Laetitia Pardo Hilton Athens

Once again a seamlessly run event with quality buyers and a good balance between business, pleasure and networking

Mark Felstead axica conference and convention centre

Confec has earned an annual spot in our calendar. Quality 1-to-1 meetings are an important selling point of this event, but maintaining business relationships over the years have become crucial to our business.

Michael Borges Hilton Vilamoura

I'm sure that the team building activities has supported us in building and reinforcing account relationships.

Benedetto Consiglio Rome Cavalieri, The Waldorf Astoria Collection

Good meetings, clients with high potential, good organization, good location, I think it was not my last Confec!

Marcel Neitzel Grand Elysée Hamburg

CONFEC forums are the most effective MICE events in Europe - 3 days of face-to-face prearranged meetings and fabulous networking programme with the top buyers from UK and mainland Europe. Highly time efficient, cost effective and extremely enjoyable... just how business should be.

Two highly targeted European forums:

CONFEC red in February is dedicated to top buyers from the important UK market.

CONFEC blue in June is dedicated to top buyers from the key markets across mainland Europe including the Germany speaking regions, France, Benelux, Spain, Italy and Scandinavia. For details of CONFEC blue click box on right.

The top agencies and corporate buyers dedicate time to CONFEC forums to talk business with international hotel chains, individual hotels, unusual venues, convention bureaux, tourist boards and DMCs.

• All Hosted Buyers are strictly qualified and places are by invitation only.
• All buyers have substantial business to place across Europe
• All meetings are pre-selected
• All buyers have their own Meeting Desk throughout the forum.
• Delegate numbers and ratios are strictly controlled to ensure optimum networking opportunities.
• There are around 80-90 buyer and 150 supplier company places at each forum.

At a CONFEC forum you can achieve 6 months of research and targeted meetings in 3 days.

The Organisers

Questex-Mclean currently develops and organises meeting forums across the following industry sectors in Europe, Asia, Middle East and USA: Health & Fitness, Hotel Management, Spa business and Conference & Incentive.

Latest News

• CONFEC RED 12 - Abama Golf and Spa Resort, Tenerife, Spain

  Buyers last chance to register for CONFEC Red 12 - The leading MICE forum for UK and Ireland Corporate meeting and incentive planners to meet face to face with European suppliers.

  CONFEC RED 12 - 12/20/2011

• Questex-McLean Events International Appoints New Event Director for CONFEC Events

  Questex-McLean Events International is delighted to announce the appointment of Christine Bartolo Parnis as Event Director for our CONFEC events (CONFEC Red, CONFEC Blue and CONFEC Green) with immediate effect.

  CONFEC News - 9/16/2011