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Metro Toronto Convention Centre, late 2004.
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Metro Toronto Convention Centre, late 2004.

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 "conference 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.

List of convention and exhibition centers

Australia

Barbados

Canada

Germany

Hong Kong

Indonesia

Korea

Netherlands

Panama

Philippines

Puerto Rico

Singapore

South Africa

United States

United Kingdom

Birmingham Glasgow London Manchester

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