> PARIS the city’s general concern on cardio-vascular diseases through a public event. HEMOPHILIA WORLD CONGRESS 2012 Mrs. Elise de Haro, French Hemophilia Association (AFH)’s treasurer, gave a beautiful example of how they have been working as a team with the Paris Convention Bureau and Le Palais des Congrès de Paris to land their World Congress. She sketched out the various steps they undertook through a five year-process, “from Paris bid announcement to the completion of the bid book, site inspections, promotional documents and support letters, the Paris Convention Bureau has been standing alongside the AFH at each stage of the bid” says Elise. Even though Paris had already lost once to Buenos Aires, the AFH refused to give up and they applied again for 2012. During the 2008 Congress, the AFH and the PCB spoke loud and clear from their common experience in front of a general assembly of 109 countries. The unprecedented verdict (78 % for Paris), has been sum up by Elise as such: “It is a wonderful human experience, it has been wonderful and it will be all the way till 2012”. Champs de Mars WHAT’S THE SECRET TO PARIS’ MAGICAL POWERS? PARIS IS A METROPOLIS OF GLOBAL STATURE, PROBABLY THE ONLY CITY IN THE WORLD THAT EXERTS SUCH A DISTINCTLY ALLURING ATTRACTION ON PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD. MOST CONGRESS ORGANISERS ARE FOND OF SAYING THAT THEIR PARTICIPANT FIGURES ALWAYS GO UP WHEN PEOPLE LEARN THAT THE CONGRESS IS BEING HELD IN PARIS. EVERYONE WANTS TO VISIT PARIS AT LEAST ONCE IN HIS OR HER LIFE! THIS WAS ALSO THE OBSERVATION REPORTED BY THE 10 AMBASSADORS: UP TO 30% MORE PARTICIPATION. PARIS IS A BOOMING DESTINATION WITH THOUSANDS OF PROJECTS AND SEVERAL KEY CHARACTERISTICS THAT HAVE A DIRECT INFLUENCE ON CONGRESS ACTIVITY. ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2007, FRENCH PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY STATED HIS WISH FOR INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATION ON A «NEW COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT FOR GREATER PARIS». THE KEY ISSUES? EMPLOYMENT, HOUSING BUT ALSO TRANSPORTATION, Adélaïde Prévôt-Sailler, Elodie Coudre and Cécile Lupo COMPETITIVENESS CLUSTERS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. PARIS IS DEFINITELY ON THE MOVE TO SHOWCASE ITS ASSETS AT AN INTERNATIONAL SCALE! CONTACT Your contact at the Paris Convention Bureau www.convention.parisinfo.com Elodie Coudre - Congress Manager ecoudre@parisinfo.com Adélaïde Prévôt-Sailler Congress Development Coordinator International Sector aprevot@parisinfo.com Cécile Lupo Congress Development Coordinator - France clupo@parisinfo.com AN OUTSTANDING ECONOMIC AND SCIENTIFIC ENVIRONMENT Did you know that the Paris region ranks 1st in Europe in terms of GDP and 2nd worldwide for the hosting of the 500 largest multinational companies? The French capital is just behind Tokyo but ahead of New York and London. Another asset is unquestionably the diversity of its economic fabric which covers a vast spectrum of activities, from highly innovative sectors such as biotechnologies, nanotechnologies, wireless technology and 3D animation graphics to traditional industrial activities including aeronautics and the automotive sector. These diverse economic sectors are driven by a vigorous R&D activity, the 1st in Europe with a workforce of 136,000 researchers and technicians, notably in renowned institutions such as CNRS, CEA, INSERM, Institut Pasteur, not forgetting the 17 universities and over 350 higher education establishments. HEADQUARTERS 4 © Paris Tourist Office - David Lefranc.
