Bangkok (Thailand) – October 18, 2016 (travelindex) – The Plaza Athénée Bangkok, A Royal Méridien Hotel has been selected by the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) as the official hotel for Incentive Travel & Conventions, Meetings Asia (IT&CMAsia) and Corporate Travel World (CTW) Asia-Pacific, the leading international MICE events in the Asia-Pacific region.

The hotel took the opportunity to showcase its advantages as a MICE venue and its good reputation to the influential delegates from around the world.

The Plaza Athénée Bangkok, A Royal Méridien Hotel, offers 5,600 m² of MICE facilities, including 3 ballrooms and 25 meeting rooms. Highlights include the exclusive Athéneum Meetings Rooms + Lounge and the iconic Kandhavas Place and Pimarn Siam Hall event venues.

The hotel distinguishes itself from others through its pioneering role in sustainable meetings. It was the world's first hotel to receive ISO 20121 certification for the design and execution of sustainable events. Every year, the hotel organizes numerous Green Meetings in accordance with ISO 20121 and has successfully passed the rigorous recertification audits in recent years.

By implementing an increasingly sustainable business model, the hotel is getting ever closer to its goal of operating completely ecologically. It already serves exclusively organic rice, from its restaurants to its canteen. This rice comes exclusively from the Satjatham Rice Project in the Thai province of Amnat Charoen and is certified organic by Thailand's organic certification body, confirming that it meets the strict ACT-IFOAM organic standard.

The hotel is also a leading participant in the new "Farm to Produce" project, which supports local communities by sourcing rice exclusively directly from farmers. The "Farm to Table" concept, in which the origin and supply chain of all ingredients and products used in the hotel's award-winning restaurants are transparently and fully documented, is also consistently pursued.

Next, organic values ​​will be applied to the welcome gifts in the guest rooms, including organic rice crispy chocolate, which will be placed on the pillows after the beds have been turned down in the evening.

“Sustainability and the focus on organic products are in the DNA of the hotel,” summarized Mrs. ChooLeng Goh, General Manager Plaza Athénée Bangkok, A Royal Méridien.

The trade fair will take place from September 26th to 30th, 2016 at the Bangkok Convention Center as part of Central World IT&CMAsia 2016, an incentive travel and congress trade fair.

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