Among the various issues to be addressed in the planned working days is the use of databases: APCE DATA. This exceptional database, shared by APCE members, aims to facilitate and identify potential clients through different accesses.

The APCE Summer School, a unique initiative in Spain, is one of  the Association’s main bids to boost the professionalism of teams of personnel in conference centres, by making them increasingly competitive, and by giving more value to the centres’ brand image.

In 2009, around 30 professionals from 15 member conference centres attended the APCE’s 1st Summer School, which took place at Madrid’s IFEMA Convention Centre in July.

Registration will shortly be open for all those people interested in attending this key date in the capital of Gran Canaria.

City of Sea and Cultures

As for Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, this cosmopolitan city possesses the following characteristics: excellent air links with the mainland and different European cities, pleasant eather, sunlight, and its vast hotel, culinary, commercial, cultural, heritage and leisure offer, making it a suitable backdrop for hosting all manner of conferences and meetings.

The Canary Island Conference Centre-Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, designed by the Catalan architect Óscar Tusquets, stands out for its architectural beauty, functional nature and the operative excellence of the services it renders. It’s a venue that has made a bid to boost the importance of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria as the ‘City of Sea and Cultures’.