S'pore wins bid to host Lions Clubs International meeting in 2020
SINGAPORE has won the bid to host the 103rd Lions Clubs International (LCI) Convention, which is expected to bring the city-state more than S$58 million in tourism receipts when it is held here in 2020.
The Lions Clubs Singapore will tie up with the Singapore Exhibition & Conventions Bureau, a unit of the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), to present the annual convention of one of the world's biggest non-governmental organisations.
This meeting has been held in June or July every year since 1917, and will be the biggest association congress to be held in Singapore thus far.
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