Conference & Meetings World Issue 101 — July / August | Page 39

St Petersburg
Expoforum:
Wager on the
strong
St Petersburg’s Expoforum is one of the
best and most advanced convention and
exhibition centres in the world, hosting a
range of major business, sport and
entertainment events.
Since opening in October 2014, the
Expoforum venue has won a global
reputation as a state-of-the-art universal
facility:
• 2017 – nominated in the Top 25 Event
Venues and Destinations to watch in
2018, according to EventMB, a leading
global blog for event managers.
ExpoForum is the only establishment
from Russia on the list
• 2018 – shortlisted as Building of the
Year 2018, in the category ‘Architecture
of Culture’, organised by Archdaily, the
popular architecture portal
• 2018 - received the Federal award of
real estate in Russia – PROESTATE &
CRE Federal Awards in the
Multifunctional estate category
• 2018 - nominated the best convention,
exhibition and business centre in Russia
by the Russian Business Travel & MICE
Awards
• 2018 and 2019 – shortlisted at the UK
Exhibition News Awards 2018 and 2019,
Best International Venue category.
Major international forums attended
by world leaders have chosen Expoforum
as their venue, including: the St
Petersburg International Economic
Forum; the Russian National Congress
of Cardiology; the 137th Assembly of the
Inter-Parliamentary Union; the
International Fishing Industry Forum
and Fishing Industry, Seafood and
Technology Exhibition; meeting of the
Intergovernmental Council of the
Eurasian Economic Union, the 85th UFI
Global Congress, among others.
The convention and exhibition centre
can accommodate up to 30,000 pax.
Outdoor exhibition space is 40,000sqm
and indoor exhibition space is 50,000sqm
with three exhibition pavilions of
13,000sqm each, connected by covered
passage for comfortable logistics. A
well-developed infrastructure includes a
Hilton Hotel with 441 rooms,
restaurants, bars, and a customs and
logistics complex, which has allowed
Expoforum to become a fully-fledged
MICE cluster.
Expoforum, now a member of the
INCON group, also launched a PCO
service at the recent IMEX Frankfurt
tradeshow.
Localisation Center, the Chinese
Business Center, and Elena Berezhnaya’s
Ice-Skating Theater for Children and
Youth.
In June 2018, two fields for
mini-football, each with an area of 38x18
metres, were opened at one of the
pavilions.
Lenexpo is also home to the Tsing
Grand Restaurant, the largest Chinese
cuisine restaurant in Europe, as well as
the largest souvenir shop in St
Petersburg.
In 2018, both Expoforum and
Lenexpo venues between them hosted
200 events of different formats, attended
by more than 1.4m people. The largest
projects included:
• St Petersburg International Gas Forum
• St Petersburg International Energy
Forum
• St Petersburg International Economic
Forum
• International Conference of REMIC
Corporation Real Estate Management
• Agrorus International Agricultural
Exhibition and Fair
• SmartTransport International
Innovative Forum of Passenger
Transport and others.
In 2018 both venues celebrated
important anniversaries – Lenexpo its
50th and Expoforum already notching
up 10 years as a business.
Exhibition
complex Lenexpo
Lenexpo is one of the largest exhibition
facilities in Russia today, located on the
coast of the Gulf of Finland. The unique
advantages include its central location in
St Petersburg and a capacity to organise
aquatic events. Lenexpo is spread out
over 15 hectares, of which six are open
air exhibition space and is home to
strategic projects of the ExpoForum
International Company: the permanent
location of the Import Replacement and
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Since
opening in
October
2014, the
Expoforum
venue
has won
a global
reputation
as a state-
of-the-art
universal
facility.
The unique
advantages
[of
Lenexpo]
include
its central
location
in St
Petersburg
and a
capacity to
organise
aquatic
events.
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