Why Orange County Convention Center Holds Most of Diplomatic Sessions in Orlando?

Orlando is not just a perfect getaway for families who want to enjoy their holidays but also a lair to most of the businessmen who want to hold their business meetings some place. As a matter of fact, Orlando seizes the second largest convention center designed for the public in hosting significant annual events and tradeshows. Considered as the main convention center of Central Florida, the OCCC is recently deemed as the second biggest convention center in the United States of America next to McCormick Place in Chicago. The huge complex is located along the south end of International Drive as well as in the tourist spot in Orlando.

Aside from being the center for both local and international economic sessions, OCCC is also widely known as "The Center of Hospitality." It is called so in accordance to its main objective to provide every guest with an outstanding service possible. It has been so many years that the OCCC serves as the primary venue for the famous annual events in Orlando including The Home and Garden Show, Hot Summer Boat Show, Pampered Pet Expo and the Southern Women's Show.

With the mission to uphold economic development in the Central Florida, the Orange County Convention Center hosts the significant trade shows, the regional, national and international conventions and meetings. And in order to maintain the center's excellent reputation, all the OCCC staff makes sure in providing outstanding service to all their guests and clienteles utilizing the center anytime. This way, would stimulate every client's desire to revisit, thereby augmenting the community's status in the process. Together with the vision to boost the local economic status of Orlando, the center also imparts new monetary funding to escalate business opportunities to the local community.

The presence of Orange County Convention Center has truly brought a significant impact in the economy of Orlando and the entire Florida. In fact, the Center congregates around a million delegates in every year, resulting to $1.9 billion dollars of annual contribution to the economy of the Central Florida. Besides the billion dollar contribution, the Center conventions also improve local employment where a lot of Floridians are provided with working opportunities. Over one thousand businesses have also benefited from the Center conventions.

The success of the Center in hosting significant events as such with the annual trade shows is again manifested in the year 2005 as it exceeds Chicago in bringing in over two-hundred fifty events to the Central Florida with approximately 1.4 million guests from different places. The sufficient number of hotel accommodations surrounding the center makes it the center of destination for many tourists in the country. And the availability of variety of theme-parks, night and daytime fun and entertainment and the warm weather have also allured more convention planners to head on to the Orange County Convention Center, which apparently results to the significant economic development in Orlando city and the entire state of Florida.