CANADA - The Vancouver Convention Centre (VCC) has shown tentative signs of recovery after several years of declining delegate days.
The British Columbia Pavilion Corp, the Crown corporation that operates the convention centre and BC Place Stadium reported that the VCC generated 128,390 non-resident delegate days for the fiscal year of 2010, well under its original prediction of 233,000 days.
It was a slight improvement from the fiscal year of 2009, in which the venue saw 126,799 non-resident delegate days and represented the low point of several years of decline.
According to Ken Cretney, general manager of the Vancouver Convention Centre, the venue is boasting numbers enviable in the tough times faced by many North American venues.
“I think we’re in a position many centres in North America would appreciate being in over the next couple of years,” he said in an interview with the Vancouver Sun. “What we have on the books right now would be the envy of many of our competitors,” he adds.
