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Orlando

Montego Bay

CancunMexico City

San Francisco

Los AngelesSan Diego Phoenix

Las Vegas DenverChicago

PortlandSeattle

Minneapolis

Dallas/Ft.Worth

Houston

Salt Lake City

Palm Springs

Puerto VallartaSan Jose del Cabo

Amsterdam

Frankfurt

Varadero

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HOTEL & VENUES

Calgary TELUS Convention Centre

Canada’s first purpose-built, full-service convention centre, the Calgary TELUS Convention Centre (CTCC) has 122,000 sq. ft. of dedicated convention space, some 47,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space, five pre-function areas and 36 meeting rooms.

A hub for local, national and international conventions, congresses, meetings and events, it is an integral part of the city centre. Each year, thousands of people visit the CTCC as well as nearby shops, restaurants, businesses, services and attractions. The facilities connect to three four-star hotels: the Hyatt Regency Calgary, the Fairmont Palliser Calgary and the Calgary Marriott Downtown Hotel.

Calgary is home to world-class accommodations, with over 13,000 guest rooms, there’s something for every budget and preference. Meetings + Conventions Calgary partners with Calgary’s hotels and venues to provide event planners with direct access to suppliers without the added step of connecting with each facility individually.

BMO Centre Calgary Stampede Park

The largest and most versatile venue in Calgary, the BMO Centre is 265,000 sq ft – more than six football fields. The unique space offers tremendous flexibility, modern technical systems and meets the highest safety

and environmental standards. The Calgary Stampede meetings and convention team of more than 100 professionals believe that each client is unique and deserves personal attention with superb service. Dedicated staff, from caterers to A/V technicians, have decades of experience in creating memorable events. They coordinate and execute every last detail, create themes, provide the décor and lighting, organize the entertainment, liaise with suppliers, and deliver world-class dining experiences.

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CALGARY AT A GLANCE

Alberta is the only province in Canada without a provincial sales tax (PST). The Government of Canada charges five per cent goods and services tax (GST) on most purchases.

Bring your shades. Calgary gets a lot of sunshine, about 2,400 hours a year, making it the sunniest major city in Canada. There are plenty of ways to enjoy the sun from enjoying a drink on a patio to exploring the city’s abundant green spaces and paths.

Warm winds, called Chinooks, blow in from the west and raise the temperature, turning winter into spring, by as much as 15 degrees, in just a few hours.

Calgary Stampede, the “Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth” is 10 days of action packed rodeo, music, food, excitement and good old fashioned western hospitality. The Calgary Stampede has been going strong for more than 100 years and attracts more than one million visitors every July, making it the highest grossing festival in Canada.

Calgary’s +15 Skywalk system is the world’s largest indoor, pedestrian pathway network. The weather-protected walkways are about 15 feet above the ground level and run for a total of 11 miles. The +15 links Calgary’s downtown connecting shops, restaurants and offices.

Four UNESCO World Heritage sites are within 2.5 hours of Calgary: Head west to the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks or northeast to Dinosaur Provincial Park and the Canadian Badlands. Whether you drive to one or make time to see all, Alberta’s natural landscape is sure to impress.

Calgary has the highest concentration of corporate head offices in the country – it’s the same with small- and medium- sized businesses too. Calgary has historically been the home to major oil and gas producers but the list of companies headquartered in the city extends well beyond energy.

UNIQUE CALGARY OFFSITES

WinSport owns and operates Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, AB., the Bill Warren Training Centre located at the Canmore Nordic Centre and the Beckie Scott High Performance Training Centre on Haig Glacier, AB. It offers world-class catering, bright and engaging spaces (many with floor to ceiling windows), large floor plans and ample free parking. It also offers unique activities to enhance your experience in both winter and summer, including skiing and snowboarding, the Acura tube park, mini golf or taking a ride down the Olympic Bobsleigh track.

Studio Bell is the home to the National Music Centre (NMC), a national cultural organization devoted to amplifying a love, sharing, and understanding of music. It is a spectacular building with a number of innovative spaces available for events. As well as being an architectural wonder, the building is an international hub of music and technology, and has NMC’s 2000+ piece collection of artifacts, instruments and music technology, 22,000 square feet of exhibitions devoted to telling the stories of music in Canada, a 300-seat performance space and recording studios.

Host a memorable experience and an event that sparks at TELUS Spark. Just minutes from the downtown core and with ample parking, TELUS Spark offers an intriguing, unforgettable and versatile venue. It has high capacity rooms, eye-catching design, full service catering and a comprehensive suite of audio/visual facilities. The venue is ideal for a wide range of functions including signature events, cocktail receptions, gala dinners, team builders, intimate meetings, trade shows, and more.

The Calgary Zoo offers a wide choice of unique venues and creative cuisine prepared by the Zoo’s chefs – wild animals too. Where else can you watch wildlife while on a 10-minute coffee break? Sometimes a natural environment helps to simulate fresh ideas and innovative thinking. Your audience might just get extra inspired to participate while you’re presenting in a new environment.

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Host your event at Heritage Park Historical Village, Canada’s largest living history museum. Our creative team will work with you to produce a delightful experience for your guests among the sights, sounds and adventures of the 1860s fur trading era, 1880s rustic settlement and a bustling 1910 railroad town.

Energy

Canada has significant petroleum resources and is a worldwide leader in the responsible production of energy. The oil and gas industry is the single largest private sector investor in Canada. Calgary is a global centre of excellence for all things energy as innovative thinking and advances in technology drive the transition to a lower carbon energy supply.

Renewable Energy

Alberta is responding to the world’s growing demand for affordable, renewable and alternative energy and Calgary is poised to play a leadership role. The city is well-equipped to support growth in the renewable energy sector growth through a combination of human, financial, and environmental resources.

Financial Services

As Western Canada’s head office capital, Calgary is an internationally recognized financial centre that serves all aspects of business, drives economic growth and supports prosperity. Canada has one of the soundest financial systems in the world and Calgary is one of four leading financial centres in the country alongside Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

Technology

Calgary has the largest number of technology start-ups per capita in Canada. In 2012 the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector in Calgary had over 630 business establishments with 25,700 employed. Calgary’s ICT sector is made up of five main sub-sectors -- Information Technologies, Electronics, Wireless and Telecommunications, Geomatics, and Digital Media.

Agribusiness

Alberta is the third largest exporter of agri-food products in Canada and Calgary has emerged as a centre for agribusiness. Alberta’s ideal for growing crops like grains and oilseeds and raising livestock. Agri-foods accounted for more than 20 per cent of total manufacturing in Alberta in 2015 and products are exported to 140 countries.

Calgary’s entrepreneurial energy is why it hosts the highest head office and small business concentration per capita in Canada. Below are our key industries.

CALGARY ECONOMIC FOCUS AREAS

Film & TV

As Canada’s fourth-largest filming jurisdiction, Calgary boasts award-winning crews and locations. The region benefits from an average of $150 million in film, television and digital production each year. Alberta has garnered more Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy® Award nominations than any other jurisdiction in Canada.

Creative Industries

Calgary’s creative industries sector is more than jobs or products, it’s about the process of generating new ideas. As intellectual capital and problem solving are tools used across all industries, the notions of creativity and innovation are increasingly being recognized in an interdisciplinary fashion as they intersect with all economic sectors.

Real Estate

Calgary is a thriving business centre in Western Canada. It’s home to more corporate head offices per capita than any city in Canada and has more than 56,000 small and medium businesses. About 12,000 people are employed in the city’s real estate sector and there are more than 2,100 real estate businesses.

Transportation & Logistics

Calgary is the North American hub for the Pacific Northwest by road, rail and air, able to move products and people in a manner unparalleled elsewhere in the region. The robust transportation and logistics network gives residents and visitors the means to reach and enjoy all aspects of life in and around Calgary and Southern Alberta.

Manufacturing

Calgary has a dynamic manufacturing sector comprising a variety of consumer and industrial products. There are about 49,600 people employed in the manufacturing sector in Calgary and 1,636 business establishments. In 2016, the total GDP from the manufacturing sector was listed at just over $5.9 million (Statistics Canada).

Drumheller & The Badlands

Departing from Calgary east into the endless golden prairies, the fertile land suddenly drops away into a strange and stark moonscape of weird striped hills and otherworldly rock formations – The Badlands. View the impressive Horseshoe Canyon and learn about the geology, history, and native plants and animals at the Interpretive Centre. Next is the town of Drumheller, the Dinosaur Capital of the World, and a visit to the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. www.canadatravelsolution.com

Waterton Lakes National Park

Approximately 260 kilometers south of downtown Calgary, rugged, windswept mountains rise abruptly out of gentle prairie grassland in spectacular Waterton Lakes National Park. Here, several different ecological regions meet and interact in a landscape shaped by wind, fire, flooding, and abundant plants and wildlife. The park helps protect the unique and unusually diverse physical, biological and cultural resources found in the Crown of the Continent: one of the narrowest places in the Rocky Mountains. banfftours.com

Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a UNESCO World Heritage Site south of Calgary, is where Blackfoot hunted buffalo for 6,000 years. Get a feel for the old west at Fort Macleod, founded as a Northwest Mounted Police barracks in 1892. Back in Calgary, visit Heritage Park and experience the 1860s through to the 1950s. canadatravelsolution.com

The Canadian Rockies: Banff, Lake Louise + Jasper

The Rockies west of Calgary are stunningly beautiful. Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper all offer adventure and first-class amenities--resorts to out-of-the-way retreats—shops and galleries. Lake Louise is west of Banff and Jasper is a few hours north on the Icefields Parkway, one of the most beautiful drives in the world.

Calgary Dining Scene

With award-winning, ambitious and creative chefs and restauranteurs, Calgary’s dining scene is developing a well-deserved international reputation for serving up inspired, innovative and delicious menus. From new and exciting restaurants to long time staples of the culinary scene, Calgary is an exciting place to eat.

Micro-Breweries

Whether named for the old Trolley 5 streetcar, the Tool Shed where it started, or the Village of artists it supports, Calgary has a big and getting bigger microbrewery scene. From the kitschy floral couches at Cold Garden Beverage Company to the pub at Wild Rose Brewery, there are plenty of places to enjoy a cool one. Alberta’s ideal growing conditions produce some of the world’s best barley, with Breweries across North America like Lagunitas sourcing this key ingredient from Calgary’s backyard.

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