There are more than 9,300 hotel rooms in the Ottawa Region, including almost 6,000 in downtown Ottawa. The average hotel occupancy rate in 1998 was 73.7 per cent. Ottawa's conference centres, together with nearby hotels, accommodate 700 conventions per year, attended by more than 190,000 delegates spending $150 million per year.

The Ottawa Congress Centre accommodates up to 5,000 people in its 84,114 square feet of convention space, just a stone's throw from 1,500 hotel rooms, a 200-store shopping complex at the Rideau Centre, and all the attractions and amenities of the Capital's central core. For larger conventions there are 2000 hotel rooms and 200,000 square feet of meeting space close to the Congress Centre.

What You Should Know
The Ottawa Congress Centre is 84,000+ square feet of modern meeting space surrounded by the sites, attractions, excitement, and amenities of downtown Ottawa, Canada's Capital... The only dedicated meeting facility in the city, the Centre offers convention and event planners flexible and varied spaces: the Executive Boardroom for regional or executive meetings of 10 to 20 people; the 66,000 square foot Congress Hall level for large-scale conventions, trade and consumer shows including dinners of 2,000 and 5,000-delegate plenary sessions; the 12,524 square foot Capital Hall level with up to nine different rooms for smaller workshops and break-out sessions. 

Two of the Centre's most unique reception and dinner spaces take full advantage of its superb location: 

• the Colonel By Salon, with its floor-to-ceiling windows offers a year-round panaromic view of the Rideau Canal; 
• the tented Upper and Lower Rooftop Terraces lets guests look out over the entire downtown. 
• The Centre is directly attached to the Rideau Centre shopping complex, and within steps of 2,000 hotel rooms.

Location
55 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa, ON  K1N 9J2
Tel: (613) 563-1984
Fax: (613) 563-7646

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