The European Association for the Study of the Liver has just selected the venues for its annual meetings till the year 2023. Vienna has been awarded the contract for three years, and – a special honor – will be hosting the congress marking the association’s 50th anniversary.
The international liver congress will take place at Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center from April 22 thru 26, 2015. This means that the European Association for the Study of the Liver has chosen Vienna as its venue in the year in which it will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. And it has already been decided that the congress will be returning to the Austrian capital in 2019 and 2023.
Gregoire Pavillon, Executive Director of the association, explained: “Our choice of destination for the next nine years has been a process lasting over a year, and we are very pleased that it has resulted in a long-term partnership with Vienna, Messe Wien, and the Vienna Convention Bureau. We discovered some interesting synergies in favor of holding our congress in Vienna in 2015, the 50th year of our existence. During the coming year they will be celebrating not only not only 150 years of Vienna’s Ringstrasse, but also the 650th anniversary of the University of Vienna. We consider this to be very auspicious.”
Some 10,000 delegates are expected to attend the 2015 congress, generating around 35,000 hotel overnights and contributing approximately 22 million euros to Austrian GDP. Christian Mutschlechner, Director of the Vienna Tourist Board’s Vienna Convention Bureau, emphasized: “Our excellent cooperation with Messe Wien was an important factor in achieving the successful acquisition of bringing three congresses of the European Association for the Study of the Liver to Vienna.”
