Just four weeks ahead its start, MIPTV’s organiser Reed Midem is “monitoring developments” as the annual market faces considerable disruption amid the coronavirus outbreak in France.
The event in Cannes, which attracted almost 10,000 delegates from around the world last year, is now in doubt after the French government’s health minister, Olivier Veran, said that confined gatherings in excess of 5,000 people would be “temporarily banned”.
Due to this, Reed Midem said in a statement that the event would go ahead as planned between 30 March and 2 April, adding that it was “continually monitoring developments and following the latest guidance from local, national and international authorities and the World Health Organisation as it relates to travel to MIPTV and clients’ on-site experience”. The organisers said they are also working with the City of Cannes and the Palais des Festivals venue “to put in place measures that will evolve as required”.
Reed Midem has already postponed the sprawling property market Mipim, which was supposed to take place in Cannes next week and it will now take place in June.
More than 100 people in France have now contracted the coronavirus, while one person from Cannes has tested positive with the illness. The outbreak began last year in China and there are already 2980 fatalities worldwide. Delegates from China have already cancelled their trips to MIPTV amid ongoing travel restrictions.
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