CEO Maryam Khawar of the Lahore Expo Center and President Kashif Anwar of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) held a discussion on Sunday about ways to improve their organisations’ collaboration.
Maryam Khawar offered collaborative ventures with LCCI for projects like to Global Village during the meeting that was place today at Lahore Chamber, where Expo Center would supply the venue and LCCI would handle the planning and event. She claimed that the Pak Expo Centre is a body that creates, develops, maintains, and offers venues for events.
We have already purchased land in Quetta for the expo centre, and the purchased area is surrounded by a boundary wall. In Peshawar, in partnership with Sarhad Chamber, an expo centre has been constructed to a 75 percent level, she said, adding that comparatively small expo centre projects were also in the works for Multan and Faisalabad.
“The expo centre wants to help the business community, and we have not enhanced our rates since 2010, just a small increase of 10% has been introduced in the rates due to COVID and lethargy of expo centres due to the routine maintenance caused by the government choice to turn expo into a hospital and the facility was deteriorating,” Maryam said.
She claimed that the Lahore Expo Center was already reserved for 2023 and that reservations for 2024 were currently being accepted. According to LCCI President Kashif Anwar, LCCI was prepared to collaborate on major events like the Lahore Food Festival, which was in the planning stages. The two teams from LCCI and the Expo Center could meet and make plans in this respect. The CEO Fair suggested building a textile museum inside the expo building and asked LCCI for support.
