A convention center, in American English , is an exhibition hall, or conference center, that holds Convention s. 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 Show s, Formal Dance s entertainment spectacles and Concert s. The largest in the United States is McCormick Place in Chicago . Larger Convention centers located in Resort Area s also host conventions that attract additional visitors to the municipality. It is not uncommon for large Resort AreaHotel s to include a convention center.
