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Vancouver boasts a convention center with amazing views, access to industry leaders, and a wide selection of venues and hotels.

**Memorable convention center** A full 40 percent of the Vancouver Convention Centre is built over water, with floor-to-ceiling glass windows treating attendees to phenomenal harbor and mountain views. The complex, which was expanded in 2009, encompasses four city blocks and features Canada’s largest waterfront ballroom.

**Innovation central.** Vancouver is a destination with strong global connections. Companies like Hootsuite, lululemon, Lionsgate Entertainment, and EA Sports call the city home. Add a collection of world-class universities, leading research facilities, and teaching hospitals, and you’ll see why your attendees will have access to speakers and thought leaders who are sure to inspire.

**Wide-ranging accommodations.** Vancouver’s 21 downtown convention hotels offer a wide range of options for alternative meeting spaces, and most of the 13,000 downtown hotel rooms are within walking distance of the convention center. The Metro Vancouver area offers a total of 28,000 rooms, along with unique venues that range from mountaintop lodges to traditional ballrooms.—Samantha Whitehorne

### Vancouver Fast Facts

**Recent and Future Association Meetings:** Orthopaedic Trauma Association’s 2017 Annual Meeting, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, BC Dental Association’s 2018 Pacific Dental Conference

**Hotel Rooms Within 1 Mile of Convention Center:** 13,000

**Convention Center Square Footage:** 466,500

**Distance From Vancouver International Airport to Downtown:** 20 miles

(Temmuzcan/Getty Images)

[Samantha Whitehorne](https://associationsnow.com/author/samantha-whitehorne/)

Samantha Whitehorne is a former editorial director of Associations Now in Washington, DC.

[More articles by this author](https://associationsnow.com/author/samantha-whitehorne/)

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