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Messe Muenchen Shanghai appoints new CEO

Messe Muenchen Shanghai announced Xu Jia, CEO and General Manager of Messe Muenchen Shanghai, will leave the company, and Evan Sha, President of Messe Muenchen Shanghai China, will become the new CEO with immediate effect. Evan will take over the responsibilities of Xu Jia with Jan Rohde, CFO and Deputy General Manager.

89,000+ visitors attend Pet Fair South China

Organised by Globus Events (formerly known as VNU Exhibitions Asia), Pet Fair South China featured more than 350 exhibitors, presenting over 2,00 brands and occupying about 50,000 m2 of gross exhibiting space. A record of 89,278 trade visitors and consumers attended the show in Shenzhen, running from 6th to 8th December 2024. The next edition will return to Shenzhen from 5th to 7th December 2025.

2.8m+ visitor arrivals to Macau in November 2024

Macau’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) released visitor arrivals for November 2024, increased by 9.6% year-on-year, welcoming 2,832,041 visitor arrivals, which recovered to 97.3% of November 2019, pre-pandemic level. Same-day visitors during November 2024 grew 14.1%, while overnight visitors were up by 4.6%. The average length of stay of visitors was 1.2 days, the same with the same month of 2023.

Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Stadium opens in 1H2025

Located at Hong Kong’s Kai Take Sports Park, Kai Tak Stadium is scheduled to open in the first half of 2025. This new facility for sports and entertainment will have an interior of 50,000 seats. Kai Tak Sports Park will include Kai Tak Arena, with multipurpose indoor sports centre of 10,000 seats; Kai Tak Youth Sports Ground, a sports ground with capacity of 5,000 seats; and Kai Tak Mall, with over 65,000 m2 of retail and F&B facilities.