The Bruges Meeting & Convention Centre (BMCC) has been awarded the very first “M+ label” by Peter De Wilde, acting CEO of Tourism Flanders. The may now officially call itself an easily accessible conference infrastructure.
The BMCC offers 48,437 square feet of multipurpose event space (exhibition hall), an auditorium for 516 people with a foyer, 12 meeting rooms with foyers, a catering area for 500 people and a VIP area for 90 people. This meeting and conference venue opened its doors in January 2022.
“Meeting venues can distinguish—and certify—themselves in Flanders with the protected accessibility label for meeting infrastructure,” said De Wilde. “The label, which has three levels (M, M+ and M++), is a guarantee for meeting and conference organizers that the BMCC is easily accessible to everyone. The label ensures that the BMCC meets the necessary criteria for wheelchair users as well as for people with hearing or visual impairments. This M+ label was obtained thanks to the joint efforts of the BMCC’s building team, Inter and the City of Bruges.”
“The City of Bruges has signed the charter ‘towards an accessible municipality’ and consequently incorporates accessibility into its building projects,” said Dirk De fauw, burgomaster of the City of Bruges. “The construction of the BMCC was the subject of a tender competition. Accessibility was one of the conditions to win the contract. To this end, we worked closely with the Inter Agency Accessible Flanders.”
“In Flanders, we want to organize meetings and congresses everyone can participate in, which is fully in line with the ‘Travel to Tomorrow’ strategy of the Flemish Tourism Board,” said Flemish Tourism Minister Zuhal Demir. “The City of Bruges consciously chose to include accessibility as a quality requirement for this building project and we can only applaud that. The BMCC can therefore rightly call itself one of the pearls of the Flemish conference infrastructure, where we can welcome (inter)national conference delegates in the best circumstances.
For more information, visit bmccbruges.com.
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