CONVENTA 2020
12th edition of one of the leading boutique trade-shows, Conventa 2020 is approaching!
CONVENTA is one of the leading European trade show for meetings, events and incentive travel which, for the 12th consecutive year, will take place in January, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
CONVENTA has become the leading marketplace for the meeting industry and the trade show that facilitates personal contacts between an international hosted buyer community and the wide choice of meetings supplier businesses from New Europe.
CONVENTA, the professional meeting industry gathering for the region of South East Europe is organized by the Slovenian Convention Bureau and considered as the most important event in the field of congress and business tourism in Slovenia.
As a focused business to business event, CONVENTA enables meeting providers to establish personal contacts with their prospective clients at prescheduled one-to-one meetings as well as various networking and educational events.
HOSTED BUYERS PROGRAMME
An attractive hosted buyer programme has been created that enables selected meeting planners to attend the Conventa trade show and personally experience the region of South East Europe and emerging destinations of New Europe. Fam trips to exciting destinations in Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia etc. offer hosted buyers a first-hand experience of this emerging region in the world of meetings.
The hosted buyer programme is available to the leading meeting industry buyers from associations, corporations and agencies organizing events. If you organize, influence or make budgetary decisions for international meetings, incentive travel, conventions, product launches, staff trainings or events then you may be eligible to attend Conventa as a hosted buyer.
why CONVENTA?
Conventa opens your meetings horizons. The trade show introduces you to around 15 different New European destinations, 140 meeting providers and offers a personal experience of one destination of your choice at fam trip.
HOSTED BUYER BENEFITS
- Admission to Conventa
- Admission to official Conventa networking events
- Pre-scheduled appointments with exhibitors of your choice
- Two/three nights stay in a 4* hotel in Ljubljana
- Return economy flights from selected destinations within Europe to and from Ljubljana on Adria Airways flights or routes agreed in advance or financial refund of EUR 250 (taxes included) for different ways of travel to and from Slovenia (by car, train, bus, different flight carriers)
- Airport and local transfers within the Conventa programme
- Catering within the Conventa programme
- On-line diary with the facility for additional appointments
- Possibility to participate in the pre or post show fam trips
- Participation at site inspection at the host hotel in Ljubljana
FAM TRIPS - POST EVENT TOURS
To be announced
Hosted Buyer Qualification Criteria
To qualify for the hosted buyer programme meeting planners must be agency, association or corporate buyers who are responsible for planning, organising, recommending or making financial decisions for events outside their home country.
Furthermore meeting planners have to commit to attending ten individual appointments per day at the show with exhibitors of their choice.
To be accepted as Hosted buyer, applicant should meet strict qualifying criteria. The organiser may contact the applicant and/or appropriate meetings suppliers to verify the information on her/his application.
Size and frequency of events organised
Geographical Representation
Potential for future business in the Baltic Sea region meetings industry
TERMS & CONDITIONS
1. Qualified hosted buyers will receive complimentary:
- Admission to Conventa
- Admission to official Conventa networking events
- Pre-scheduled appointments with exhibitors of their choice
- Two/three nights stay in a 4* hotel in Ljubljana
- Return economy flights from selected destinations within Europe to and from Ljubljana on Adria Airways flights or routes agreed in advance or financial refund of EUR 250 (taxes included) for different ways of travel to and from Slovenia (by car, train, bus, different flight carriers)
- Airport and local transfers within the Conventa programme
- Catering within the Conventa programme
- Pre-scheduled appointments with exhibitors of their choice
- On-line diary with the facility for additional appointments
- Possibility to participate in the pre or post show fam trips
- Participation at site inspection at the host hotel in Ljubljana
2. Completion of the online application form does not automatically guarantee you a place on the Conventa hosted buyer programme. You will be notified if your application is successful. Conventa reserves the right to decline your registration without reason. Organiser’s decision is final.
3. Conventa will only accept one application per participant. In the event of more than one application per participant being received, only the first application will be accepted.
4. All required sections of the application form must be fully completed. Failure to do so will result in the form not being processed.
5. Confirmed hosted buyers are obliged to pay a nonrefundable participation fee of EUR 25, after hosted buyer status has been confirmed. Registration fee should be paid on-line by the credit card at the Conventa website. Invoice for participation fee will be issued by Toleranca marketing d.o.o.
6. Should cancellation and ‘no show’ charges apply they will be debited from the credit card details supplied by applicant.
7. Participants who are not accepted for the hosted buyer programme will have the opportunity to attend Conventa as an invited buyer.
8. By accepting the Conventa hosted buyer status, all hosted buyers are consenting to their contact details being made available to all exhibitors as well as all official show partners, sponsors.
1. Hosted buyers who are accepted by Conventa commit to attend a minimum of 10 one-to-one appointments per day of attendance at Conventa. For two days minimum attendance of 15 one-to-one appointments has to be scheduled in advance. One-to-one meetings have to be arranged in advance via on-line appointment system. Hosted buyers who do not conclude appointments by the agreed date and/ or do not attend site inspection will be liable for the ‘no show’ fee. Association hosted buyers commit to attend a minimum of 6 one-to-one appointments per day (9 one-to-one appointments for 2 days at the show) and complete site inspections of both congress centres in Ljubljana. Association hosted buyers who do not conclude appointments by the agreed date and do not complete the site inspections will be liable for the ‘no show’ fee.
2. Hosted buyers who are unable to honour an appointment should contact the exhibitor directly to arrange a more convenient appointment time.
3. Only one person per company can be accepted as a hosted buyer. Further persons may attend the show as invited guests (they cover their own travel and accommodation but have complementary access to Conventa show including all services granted to hosted buyers at the show). Exceptions can be made for large companies or if otherwise agreed with the Organiser.
4. If one or more persons from the same organisation attend Conventa as a hosted buyer then those persons must conduct their appointments individually.
5. Please note that attendance at appointments will be monitored and non attendance shall constitute a breach of these Terms and conditions. Organiser will give on-site instructions on attendance verification.
6. The Organiser will inform hosted buyer about the site inspection of the host hotel in Ljubljana upon arrival. Hosted buyers are obliged to attend their preplanned site inspection.
1. If you need to cancel your participation at the show, you must inform the Organiser in writing. The cancellation will not be effective until you have received a written acknowledgement from the Organiser. Cancellations received on or before 1 December 2019 do not incur a fee, unless the flight has been agreed and confirmed. If the flight has been confirmed the cost of the flight will be charged. Cancellations received after 1 December 2019 will incur a fee of 400 EUR. Charges will be debited from the credit card detailed on your application. Organisers will not refund the administrative and participation fee in case of cancellation.
2. ‘No show’ is defined as a hosted buyer who without giving prior written notice of cancellation does not complete appointment requirements and/or is not present for the hosted buyer activities at Conventa.
‘No show’ fees for hosted buyers will be applied against any of the items below:
• If you do not make the required number of exhibitor appointments prior to the close of the appointment system
• You are reported onsite as a ‘no show’
• You are unable to attend Conventa and do not advise us in writing by January 19, 2020
• If you do not attend the required site inspection
• If you miss two or more pre-scheduled appointments per day of attendance at Conventa
3. Hosted buyers’ participation and attendance are monitored by the Organiser and exhibitors. In the event of a breach in the cancellation & no show’s Terms and conditions, Conventa reserves the right to cancel your hosted buyer status and charge you the ‘no show’ fee. The ‘no show’ fee is 500 EUR.
4. All cancellation and no show charges will be debited by Conventa to the credit card detailed in your application. All cancellation charges and no show fees are inclusive of VAT or equivalent tax. An invoice receipt detailing the charges will be sent to you.
5. Cancellation of attendance fees, no show fees and flight cancellation fees shall be payable by the hosted buyer within 14 days of the closing date of Conventa. The Conventa team shall take payment of such cancellation and no show fees from the hosted buyer’s credit card (details of which must be provided by the hosted buyer on registration) 14 days after the closing date of Conventa, if the payment has not been made by other means. Conventa will provide the hosted buyer with a receipt in respect of such credit card charges for cancellation of attendance fees, no show fees and flight cancellation fees.
1. Your acceptance on to the hosted buyer programme is non-transferable. Should a circumstance arise whereby you have to cancel your participation, you may request to substitute another person from your organisation. Organiser may choose to accept that substitute person after reviewing his/her fully completed application form.
2. If the substitute meets the qualification criteria and if the substitution is made prior to 1 December 2018, then cancellation charges will not apply to the original buyer unless the flight has been confirmed. If the flight has been confirmed, the cost of the flight will be charged.
3. If the substitution is made after the cancellation date of 1 December 2019, cancellation charges will apply unless agreed otherwise with the Organiser.
4. If the substitution is not accepted by the Organiser, then the usual cancellation terms apply to the original hosted buyer.
1.Travel will be arranged on dates suitable for attendance at the show.
2. Due to airline restrictions, changes to confirmed travel plans or travel change requests received after 15 December 2019 will be considered by Organiser on a case by case basis.
3. The Organiser reserves the right to make charges for travel changes. Charges will be notified to you and will be debited from the credit card detailed in your application.
4. Any unused flight tickets must be returned directly to the Organiser.
5. Please note that participants from certain countries may require a visa to enter Slovenia (European Union). It is the responsibility of each participant to contact the Organiser for a visa application letter and to organise their own individual visa. Buyers who are unable to travel because of failure to obtain a valid visa will be subject to the standard cancellation or no show charges.
6. Please note that travel insurance is the responsibility of each individual hosted buyer. The Organiser will not supply travel insurance for hosted buyers. Travel insurance must be in effect from the day of departure up to and including the day you arrive back at your home country.
7. Hosted buyers are responsible for the payment of excess baggage, customs fines etc. Conventa does not endorse or approve export gifts given to hosted buyers by exhibitors. It is the responsibility of each attendee to ensure that such gifts may be both legally removed from Slovenia and imported into your home country.
8. Hosted buyers must settle all expenses with the hotel prior to departure and will indemnify Conventa for any failure to do so.
1. Familiarisation trips are organised by the host destination. Hosted buyers are accepted by the host destination on the basis that they meet the criteria determined by the host destination. Flights (transfers) are co-ordinated by the Organiser and the host destination. Accommodation is the sole responsibility of the host destination for the duration of the trip.
2. After a maximum number of hosted buyers per fam trip is reached the participation at such fam trip will not be possible.
3. Attendance at a fam trip is subject to arriving/departing flights availability.
4. If you need to cancel your participation in a fam trip, then you must inform the Organiser. Your cancellation must be acknowledged in writing by the Organiser for it to be effective. Cancellations received on or before 1 December 2019 do not incur a fee, unless the flight has been agreed and confirmed. If the flight has been confirmed the cost of the flight will be charged. Cancellations received after 1 December 2019 may incur a fee from the host destination to cover costs incurred by them for flights and accommodation relating to the fam trip up to the date of cancellation and will be advised. Additional costs for revised flights may also be incurred and will be payable to Conventa.
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