Credit: Home Builder's Association of Delaware
Expansions and additions such as
these are important in helping to keep
the trade show and convention indus-
tries thriving. Such shows often need a
massive amount of square footage and
canonlybookatfacilitiesthatareable
to meet their specific space require-
ments.
Otherimportantfactorsandconsidera-
tionsinchoosingahostdestinationfor
a convention or trade show include:
location, parking, ease of load-in, and
local demographics as they relate to
the targeted markets. After all, it’s
important to choose a region that is
easy to reach by the desired audience.
Annualtradeshowproducersandcon-
vention planners look for destinations
that can support and maintain their
existing attendance levels from prior
events, or even increase them. An
area’s accessibility and affordability
playarole,too,asdoesitsavailabilityof
hotels,restaurants and attractions.
There are numerous host facilities
Overlooking the Monongahela River
throughout the region with the capa-
within theWharf District of downtown
bility to accommodating trade shows
Morgantown, West Virginia is the
and conventions while also providing
Waterfront Place Hotel. Presently, it
a locale that is rich and diverse in
offers 205 luxuriously appointed guest
termsofactivities,attractions,overnight
rooms and suites, over 10,000 square
accommodations and more.
feet of flexible event and meeting
space,the Waterfront Spa and Salon,a
TheValley Forge Convention Center in
state-of-the-art fitness center, The King of Prussia,PA,for example,offers
RegattaBarandGrillerestaurant,anda up 108,000 square feet of exhibition
host of on site amenities. space, with an additional 50,000-
square-feet in meeting space.The sur-
Soon,however,the property will add a rounding area is home to nearly 7,500
wholenewdimensiontoitscurrentlist hotel rooms within 50 hotels and eight
of offerings. In spring of 2010, the state-of-the-art conference centers.
Morgantown Event Center at
Waterfront Place will open on site fea- The convention center shares a con-
turing more than 30,000 square feet of vention complex with the Radisson
convention, trade show, banquet and Hotel Valley Forge, The Waterford
entertainment space. This new facility Ballroom, and the Scanticon Valley
will be the second largest in the state. Forge Conference Center,all of which
add even more options for those who
The Morgantown Event Center will wish to hold educational sessions,
offer state-of-the-art design and engi- meetings and special events in associ-
neering with multi-purpose accommo- ation with their conventions and trade
dationsforregional,nationalandinter- shows.
national conventions, trade shows,
meetings, presentations, performances For those attendees seeking things to
and special events. Additionally, the seeanddoduringtheirfreetimeinthe
hotel and new event center are close surroundingValleyForgearea,thecom-
to major interstates to provide ease of munityisrichinhistory-hometosuch
accessibility. sites as Valley Forge National Historic
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