Posted Jan 20, 2016, 3:35 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Toronto area (ex-Nova Scotian)
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Originally Posted by ScovaNotian
It's different in that the convention centre will hopefully generate a monetary return for the city and the province, isn't it? Assuming that a five-day convention attracts 400 attendees who wouldn't otherwise visit Nova Scotia, and who each spend $250 a day, that's half a million in spending, on hotels, restaurants, caterers, etc.
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Absolutely. I hope that it will be so successful that they will have to expand it within a few years (possibly by renting space in the office towers for meeting rooms, and converting existing meeting rooms to exhibit space). 
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