A Convention center, in American English, is an exhibition hall, or conference center, that holds conventions. A large, cavernous public building with enough open space to host public and private business and social events for the surrounding municipal and metropolitan areas.
In British English very large venues suitable for major trade shows are known as exhibition centres while the term "convention centre" is sometimes used for intermediate venues between exhibitions centres and "conferences centres", which are much smaller and contain lecture halls and meeting rooms.
Convention centers typically offer enough floor area to accommodate several thousand attendees. Convention centers rent space for meetings such as: corporate conferences, industry trade shows, formal dances entertainment spectacles and concerts. The largest in the United States is McCormick Place in Chicago. Larger Convention centers located in resort areas also host conventions that attract additional visitors to the municipality. It is not uncommon for large resort area hotels to include a convention center.
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List of convention and exhibition centers
Australia
- Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
- Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Gold Coast, Queensland
- Perth Convention Exhibition Centre
Indonesia
- Jakarta Convention Center, Jakarta
Barbados
- Sherbourne Conference Centre, Two Mile Hill, Saint Michael – Barbados
Canada
- Metro Toronto Convention Centre
- Ottawa Congress Centre
- Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre
- World Trade and Convention Centre (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
- Exhibition Park (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
- Shaw Confrence Centre (Edmonton, Alberta)
- Northlands Park (Edmonton, Alberta)
Panama
- Convention Complex Atlapa
- Figali Convention Center
- Vasco Nuñez de Balboa Convention Center
- Courtyard Convention Center
- Flamenco Convention Center
Puerto Rico
- Puerto Rico Convention Center
United States
- Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California)
- Austin Convention Center
- Baltimore Convention Center
- Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
- Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center (Detroit, MI)
- Colorado Convention Center
- Cox Convention Center, Oklahoma City
- McCormick Place, Chicago
- D.C. Convention Center (Washington, D.C.)
- DCU Center (Worcester)
- Duluth Entertainment Convention Center (DECC) (Duluth, Minnesota)
- Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (New Orleans)
- Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center (Nashville)
- George R. Brown Convention Center (Houston)
- Georgia World Congress Center (Atlanta)
- Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center
- Hawai'i Convention Center (Honolulu)
- Jacob Javits Convention Center (New York, New York)
- Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center (Long Beach, California)
- Los Angeles Convention Center
- Las Vegas Convention Center (Las Vegas, Nevada)
- Mandalay Bay Convention Center (Las Vegas, Nevada)
- Minneapolis Convention Center
- Moscone Center (San Francisco)
- Nashville Convention Center
- Oregon Convention Center (Portland)
- Orange County Convention Center (Orlando)
- Pennsylvania Convention Center (Philadelphia)
- Phoenix Civic Plaza
- Public Auditorium (Cleveland)
- Salt Palace (Salt Lake City, Utah)
- Sands Expo (Las Vegas, Nevada)
- San Antonio Convention Center
- San Diego Convention Center
- Washington State Convention and Trade Center (Seattle)
United Kingdom
Birmingham
- National Exhibition Centre (NEC) - largest in the UK
- International Convention Centre - much smaller than the NEC
Glasgow
- Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
London
- Business Design Centre
- Earl's Court Exhibition Centre
- ExCeL Exhibition Centre
- Olympia
Manchester
- G-Mex
See also
- concert hall
- stadium
- venue
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