FLT Hong Kong expansion

d, Flight Centre Travel Group has today announced the acquisition of Hong-Kong Based Maya Events to its Greater China portfolio, boosting its presence in the lucrative MICE sector and enhancing subsidiary cievents’ existing network.

Maya Events was first established in 2005 by businesswoman Mireya Garcia and further expanded in 2011 when Yamilette M.Cano joined the board.

FLT Hong Kong managing director, David Fraser, said “the acquisition would add scale to the company’s existing cievents operation in Hong Kong and complement the services that cievents currently offered locally.

“Maya Events is a highly successful business with an established client base and strong expertise in production and creative areas.

Historically FLT has outsourced some MICE functions, however with the acquisition Fraser said a full suite of services in-house will be on offer to prospective clients and existing customers in “the rapidly expanding MICE sector”.

Maya’s core services include: event management and coordination, decoration and production, creative services and content production, design and printing and AV, lighting and special effects among others.

“The Maya acquisition complements all of our current offerings enabling us to instantly provide added value,” remarked cievents global general manager, Natalie Simmons.

“Maya gives cievents a stronger presence in an important market and also a platform for further growth in Asia,” she continued.

D Et,/> , cievents will further expand into Asia this year with a new Singapore headquarters, slated to open in Apr 2016.