East Midlands Tourism welcomed yesterday’s announcement that the 2012 Olympics will be heading to London. Based on the Sydney Olympics it is estimated that the 2012 Olympics could contribute over £2 billion to Britain’s visitor economy.

The Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) will hold an interactive Executive Forum in London on May 26, entitled Information for Tomorrow’s Strategic Travel Management.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will present a special treat for art lovers with the first major retrospective in the U.S. devoted to the drawings of the great Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens.

As part of the festivities surrounding Belgium’s 175th anniversary, the Royal Museums of Art and History shed light on the evolution of Belgium’s decorative arts.

Annually since the year 1150, the historic city of Bruges has been attracting thousands of visitors to one of the great religious pageants in Europe, the Holy Blood Procession.

The Royal Greenhouses in Laeken cover six acres of neoclassical rotundas, domes and galleries. Twenty full time gardeners tend the giant ferns, fruit-bearing banana trees, grottoes, glades and grassy vistas.

Mounted in cooperation with Guggenheim Museum, the exhibition BILL VIOLA Visions comprises a selection of the American artist Bill Viola’s highly original video installations.

ARKEN has the great pleasure of presenting 96 works by the French national artist Fernand Léger. The exhibition provides a comprehensive introduction to Léger's art from 1905 to 1954, one year before his death.