A convention center is 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. Larger Convention centers located in resort areas also host conventions that attract additional visitors to the municipality. Convention has at least two separate and very distinct meanings. ... Public is of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to private; as, the public treasury, a road or lake. ... A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs. ...

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. A trade fair (or trade show) is an exhibition organised so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their new products and services. ... Ballroom dance is a style of partner dance which originated in the western world and is now enjoyed both socially and competitively around the globe. ... A concert is a live performance, especially musical, for the benefit of an audience. ... McCormick Place is an enormous exposition complex located in Chicago, Illinois. ...

List of convention centers

Canada

• Metro Toronto Convention Centre
• Ottawa Congress Centre
• Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre

Categories: Canada geography stubs | Toronto buildings ... Canada Place is a building situated on the Burrard Inlet waterfront of Vancouver, British Columbia. ...

United States

• Austin Convention Center
• Baltimore Convention Center
• McCormick Place, Chicago
• D.C. Convention Center (Washington, D.C.)
• DCU Center (Worcester)
• Duluth Entertainment Convention Center (DECC) (Duluth, Minnesota)
• Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center (Nashville)
• George R. Brown Convention Center (Houston)
• Georgia World Congress Center (Atlanta)
• Hawai'i Convention Center (Honolulu)
• Jacob Javits Convention Center (New York, New York)
• Los Angeles Convention Center
• Minneapolis Convention Center
• Moscone Center (San Francisco)
• Nashville Convention Center
• Oregon Convention Center (Portland)
• Orlando Convention Center
• Phoenix Civic Plaza
• San Antonio Convention Center
• San Diego Convention Center
• Washington State Convention and Trade Center (Seattle)

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See also

• concert hall
• stadium
• venue