The Board of the International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS) has simply introduced at the General Setting Up at the ISA 2018 (the XVIIIth International Seminar on Atherosclerosis) in Toronto, Canada that the Oman Society of Lipid & Atherosclerosis (OSLA) has won the quote to organize the Triennial International Seminar on Atherosclerosis in 2024 in the Sultanate of Oman. The 3-day event has an expected presence of approximately 2,500 delegates.

This, the 20th edition, will be the very first time that the conference will certainly be hosted in the Middle East with the first one held in 1967 in Chicago and a lot more recent versions in Sydney, Australia and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The 19th version will certainly remain in Kyoto, Japan in 2021.

The group led, by Dr. Khalid Al Rasadi, President and Dr. Fahad Al Zadjali, Assistant of OSLA won the very affordable quote competing against Dubai, UAE, St Petersburg, Russia and New Delhi, India. The winning group consisted of Khalid Al Zadjali, Director of the Oman Convention Bureau (OCB) and Gillian Taylor, Director of Business Development, Oman Convention & Event Centre (OCEC).

Dr. Khalid Al Rasadi said, Bringing this international conference with global experts and having them share their knowledge will benefit the Sultanate. We are very confident that we will get large numbers of delegates from all over the world as Oman is such an attractive destination.

Among the key factors mentioned for winning was the participation, involvement and activities carried out by OSLA that hold yearly training courses along with local and regional occasions. The association is additionally highly included with the International Atherosclerosis Culture of which Dr. Khalid Al Rasadi is an active Board member Dr. Khalid Al Rasadi included his recognition for the strong support of the OSLA board members and their vision and ambitions to bring such important occasions to the region in the field of Lipid and Atherosclerosis.

The Ministry of Tourism supports all efforts to enhancing the MICE tourist sector in Oman. The Ministry's campaign in establishing the Oman Convention Bureau under its guidance is a turning point in the direction of constructing a structure and accomplishing objectives in the MICE tourist sector. The bureau additionally aims to utilize numerous exterior channels to promote MICE internationally.

Khalid Al Zadjali, Director of the Oman Convention Bureau stated that, The symposium will bring direct, indirect and induced economic benefits to the Sultanate in addition to the strategic impact such an event has on the country. Conference attendees are high on the list of visitors that Oman wishes to attract and we know that they will leave with a positive impression and may return at a future dates with their families, colleagues or friends. The Ministry of Tourism of Oman is targeting 11 million site visitors by 2040 and "Business Events" is among the key target audience as, typically, they bring much more financial worth to a country compared to leisure tourists.

The world class Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre has constructed specifically to attract and accommodate worldwide events such as this and includes a 3,200-person theater, 22,000 sqm of pillar-less exhibition space and 55 different conference spaces to select from.

OCB and OCEC have spent a long time already in collaborating with and helping to develop the local association market in Oman and have encouraged leaders and topic professionals to bid for the global organization seminars in their field. Oman is fortunate in that the local organization market is really solid particularly in the areas of health care, heritage, society and tourism, framework and logistics.

Persistent advertising tasks and solid Omani leaders in their corresponding fields has brought about Oman recently winning 16 regional and international association meetings

The number of organization meetings in Oman has actually doubled in 2017 as videotaped by the International Congress and Convention Association's (ICCA's) recently launched data and Oman is now placed Second Middle East and 86th worldwide for the variety of global meetings hosted in 2017.