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Meeting planners making site inspection of Vancouver
About 2,600 meetings industry professionals from around the world will gather at the Vancouver Convention Centre from later this month for Meeting Professionals International’s 2010 World Education Congress, an event that’s expected to inject over $3 million of direct spending into the BC economy and leave long-lasting benefits as well.
“Hosting MPI’s World Education Congress is equivalent to the largest client ‘site inspection’ Vancouver has ever hosted,” said Dave Gazley, Tourism Vancouver’s vice president of meeting and convention sales.
He added:
“With the expansion of our spectacular convention centre, early on we identified the WEC as an industry event we needed to host because of its potential to generate future business for our city.”
What visitors will find is what city officials call “the smallest carbon footprint of any major North American city. “Vancouver aims to be the greenest city in the world,” is a claim made by the CVB.
Highlights for visitors include South Granville, which has one of the largest concentration of commercial art galleries in the city, hence the moniker “Gallery Row.” These free galleries exhibit a huge range of art ranging from Asian to contemporary photography.
Favorites include the Ian Tan Gallery and the Kurbatoff Art Gallery. Ian Tan focuses on local artists.
The snow-capped city of Vancouver also features the largest gay population in Western Canada.
By David Wilkening
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