Grimmer to advise Macau CEI sectors

The territory is preparing for an ambitious raft of new conference, exhibition and hotel facilities that will come online in the next few years and transform Macau's offering to the CEI industry. Grimmer is the chief executive officer of his own management and consulting firm Gary Grimmer & Company He has extensive experience in the Australian and US markets, most recently as CEO of the Melbourne Convention & Visitors Bureau. He is also the chairman of ConventionWorks, a global network of companies that consult on the congress industry with offices around the world. MGTO director João Manuel Costa Antunes said: "Having in mind all his experience, know-how and contacts, the local business-tourism industry will be able to benefit from the assistance of an international consultant of the level of Gary Grimmer. "He presents all the credentials in the area of business tourism and knows both the international and Asian markets very well." Grimmer said: "Macau is unarguably the biggest story at the moment in Asia in terms of all the development that is going on. It's really undergoing a renaissance." Grimmer will be advising MGTO until the end of the year on the development of a strategy to highlight Macau as new business-tourism destination. Grimmer has previously served as chairman of the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus (IACVB) and as chairman of the IACVB Foundation. Originally from the US, Grimmer has also been CEO of the Portland, Oregon and Albuquerque, New Mexico CVBs and vicepresident of the Boston, Massachusetts Convention and Visitors Bureau.