• About Meetings Africa

      24 - 26 February 2010, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg.

      Meetings Africa is Africa's top business tourism exhibition. It showcases products and services from across the region's meeting, incentives and events industries.

      It is a one-stop shop. If you are a conference organiser, meeting planner, corporate travel agent, destination management company, or are involved in securing and arranging events in Southern Africa, Meetings Africa is for you.

      Meetings Africa is supported by key partners - the Gauteng Tourism Authority, the Johannesburg Tourism Company, the Sandton Convention Centre and the Department of Trade and Industry.

    • About Meetings Africa cont.

      Showcasing Southern African conference and event venues, incentive travel destinations and industry support products and services, Meetings Africa caters for conference, exhibition and event organisers, meeting planners, corporate travel agents and incentive travel specialists.

      It attracts local corporate visitors and hosted buyers from South Africa's main overseas business tourism markets including the United Kingdom, the USA, Germany, France, The Netherlands and Australia.

      Opening Times:

      Wednesday, 24 February - 10:00 - 17:00
      Thursday, 25 February - 10:00 - 17:00
      Friday, 26 February - 09:00 - 13:00

    • Meetings Africa offers Education Seminars during each day of the exhibitions. Click here for more information.

      Click here to register.

      The Venue:

      Meetings Africa is held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. The centre has been nominated for a World Travel Award in the Best African Convention Centre category for the past eight years.

      The 12-storey convention centre has more than 22 000m² of meeting, exhibition and special event space, accommodating up to 10 000 visitors. It has a number of meeting rooms, from intimate 10-seat function rooms to the Pavilion, which can easily host up to 4 500 guests. Parking is provided in 11 000 parking bays.

    • The centre is linked via a walkway to Sandton City and across the street from Nelson Mandela Square - two highly sought-after shopping destinations. Here visitors can browse more than 200 stores and boutiques or enjoy sumptuous meals at some 50 restaurants.

      Accessing the convention centre is really easy as it is located within 40 minutes' drive from OR Tambo International Airport, and within walking and easy driving distance from a number of top Johannesburg hotels.

      Sandton also boasts a thriving nightlife and visitors can enjoy a range of activities at any one of the dozens of venues that surround the convention centre.

      For more information on the Sandton Convention Centre and surrounds visit www.saconvention.co.za.

      Download map to Sandton Convention Centre

    • What's On

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    • “Buyer meets Seller” Networking Cocktail

      The official Meetings Africa 2010 “buyer-meets-seller” networking cocktail will take place from 18:00 on Tuesday, 23 February at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Sandton.

      Invited guests are hosted international buyers, exhibitors, association buyers, local buyers, Meetings Africa bid partners and South African Tourism's business tourism managers.

      Only invited guests will be admitted.

    • Gala Dinner

      By invitation only!

      In celebration of South Africa's hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ and the inaugural UNWTO International Summit on Tourism, Sport and Megaevents, delegates are invited to a one-of-a-kind gala dinner (by invitation only), welcoming the world to South Africa in true South Africa style. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with tourism leaders from across the globe, as well as living legends and shining personalities who call South Africa 'home'.

      The Gala dinner takes place on the 24th February 2010 at the Sandton Convention Centre.

    • Educational Seminars

      Meetings Africa will be running Educational Seminars which will be held in the Gearhouse Presentation Area, within the exhibition hall, at the following times:

      • Wednesday 24th February: 08h30 - 16h15
      • Thursday 25th February: 08h30 - 16h00
      • Friday 26th February: 09h30 - 12h00

      These seminars will have an exciting variety of professional Speakers... so don't miss out!

      Seats are limited, so book NOW!

      RegisterView Speaker ProfilesDownload Speaker Profiles PDF

    • Gauteng Tourism Authority Pre-tour - 23rd Feb 2010

      We look forward to welcoming you to Meetings Africa 2010, which is taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, in the Gauteng province.

      Gauteng, meaning 'place of gold' in Sesotho, one of South Africa's 11 official languages, is the country's smallest, yet richest province. It is Africa's economic powerhouse - a financial, business and entertainment epicentre.

      The Gauteng Tourism Authority invites you to experience some of the attractions in the province as part of your Meetings Africa pre-tour.

      There will be two tours that will depart from your hotel, the Radisson Blu in Sandton, at 08:30 on Tuesday, 23 February.

      • The West Rand tour (Option 1) will take you to the gateway of the Cradle of Humankind, a region proud of its history and natural heritage.

      • The Soweto tour (Option 2) will take you to this city of friendship, vibrancy and contrasts, which is infused with the history of the struggle against apartheid.

      Please choose one of the two tours (unfortunately you cannot be on both!) and RSVP to lizzy@tepg.co.za by 21 February.

      We are looking forward to seeing you!

      Option 1 - West Rand TourOption 2 - Soweto Tour

    • Association Day

      On Tuesday, 23 February a one-day conference for associations will be held at the Sandton Convention Centre.

      If you are an association based in South Africa and are affiliated to an international association or society, you should definitely be there!

      The conference will:

      • give insight into international trends in the association industry
      • discuss and share issues that affect and are pertinent to associations
      • offer the opportunity to network and meet other international associations and relevant suppliers in the industry.
      More InformationView ProgrammeDownload Programme PDF

      Meetings Africa Association Day registrations are now closed. If you are from an Association, please email associationday@tepg.co.za.

    • Summit - Tourism, Sport & Mega-events:

      The UN World Tourism Organization/South Africa Summit on Tourism, Sport and Mega-events will be held at the Sandton Convention Centre from 24 to 26 February 2010, alongside Meetings Africa. The international media partner for this summit is CNN.

      This summit will provide a forum to consider the impact of mega events - particularly sports, culture, exhibitions and entertainment - from a tourism perspective.

      Click next for more information on a summit of the tourism ministers of the G20 countries.

    • Meeting of G20 tourism ministers - "T20"

      The first-ever meeting of the tourism ministers of the G20 countries will be held at the Sandton Convention Centre from 22 to 24 February 2010 under the theme 'Travel and tourism: stimuli for G20 economies.'

      This meeting forms part of the process to discuss and develop strategies to meet the challenges of the global economic downturn and to seize the opportunities of the global economic recovery.

      This is a closed-session, attendance by invitation only.

      Click here for more information.

    • Meetings Africa 2009

      Meetings Africa was held for the fifth time at the Sandton Convention Centre from 25 to 27 February 2009. The event attracted quality local and international buyers and exhibitors conducted good business.

      A total of 218 exhibitors from across the business tourism sector marketed their products and services and the exhibition was attended by 1 921 visitors, including buyers and media representatives.

      It was attended by over 100 hosted international buyers from South Africa's main business tourism source markets. These buyers and media were taken on post-show tours to KwaZulu-Natal, the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape where they visited some of the country's top business tourism products.

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