Learning from the SARS experience.Organizations can best respond to challenges by joining forces. That's the message that can be taken from the staging of the First Asian Exhibition Forum, a special one-day event one-day event a contraction of the three-day event but like that contest is aimed at selecting the best all-round horse and rider. The events usually contested are show-jumping, dressage and cross-country. held August 28, 2003, and put together by four organizations: the Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. Exhibition and Convention Industry Association; Union des Foires Internationales Asian Pacific Chapter, Hong Kong; the Hong Kong Trade Development Council Hong Kong Trade Development Council (Chinese: 香港貿易發展局, TDC) is a global marketing arm and service hub for Hong Kong-based manufacturers, traders and service exporters, est. 1966. ; and the Hong Kong Tourism Board The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB), is a Hong Kong government-sub vented body. It was founded on 1 April 2001 under the HKTB Ordinance. It was reconstituted from and replaced the Hong Kong Tourist Association (HKTA), which was established by Government Ordinance in 1957. . The forum was designed as a collaborative effort to take stock of the affect of severe acute respiratory syndrome Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Definition Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is the first emergent and highly transmissible viral disease to appear during the twenty-first century. , assess responses to SARS within the industry, and make further coordinated changes based on the SARS experience. Nearly 200 industry leaders attended from all major locations around the region. Supporters of the forum included exhibition associations from Singapore. Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, and Taipei. In addition, participants from China included representatives from the China Association for Exhibition Centres and the exhibition industry associations from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Shenzhen, and Macau. |
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