Wedding boutiques, restaurants, event organizers, florists, confectioners, photographers, hosts and make-up artists present their services at the International Wedding Exhibition Wedding guide expo at the EXPOFORUM.

What is the reason for the growth of the Russian event industry market? On January 18, at the panel discussion within the Eurasian Event Forum experts of the convention and exhibition industry discussed how to develop, replicate event projects and enter the international market under the current economic conditions.

This was pointed out on January 18 by Sergey Voronkov, General Director of the EXPOFORUM International and President of the Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs, at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Eurasian Event Forum at PetroCongress.

On December 14, the Four Seasons hotel hosted a plenary session of the largest winter tourist forum Travel Hub. “Go Travelling!” devoted to the expansion of horizons of the regional macro-tourism development.

On November 24, in St. Petersburg, the opening ceremony of the Finale of the Vocational Skills Championship “Professionals” took place at the EXPOFORUM Convention and Exhibition Centre. At the ceremony, the guests of honor were Sergey Kravtsov, Minister of Education of the Russian Federation, and Aleksander Beglov, Governor of St. Petersburg.

On November 9, Sergey Alekseev, First Vice-President of the Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs (RUEF), Vice President of EXPOFORUM International, spoke about capacities of the International MICE Industry Consortium (IMC) as a tool for developing national and regional economies and business tourism.

Underground storage of various gases requires new legislative initiatives, scientific research and huge investments. This was the subject of the Research and Practice Conference «Underground Gas Storage: Reliability and Efficiency» to be held as part of the SPIGF-2023.