{"id":706,"date":"2015-07-17T07:22:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T07:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/88.84.77.183\/animo\/en\/?p=706"},"modified":"2015-07-27T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T10:24:33","slug":"congresses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esmadrid.com\/mcb\/en\/news\/congresses-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Congresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In May and June<\/strong> the Conference Department of the Madrid Convention Bureau submitted <strong>nine applications<\/strong> to host national and international conferences for the 2016 to 2019 period. Since May the Department has also won bids for seven new conferences that will bring to Madrid <strong>over 28,000 delegates from diverse sectors<\/strong> including air traffic, medicine, research, law and science.<\/p>\n<p>Three site visits by the heads of three international associations were also organised. 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