Why should your next meeting be in Detroit?

• Detroit is close to you and your attendees - only a 90-minute flight from 60 percent of the nation's population.
• Northwest Airlines offers discounted airfare for your conferences and conventions meeting in Detroit. Take advantage of these savings while experiencing one of the friendliest and most efficient modern terminals in the nation.
• Detroit has first-class meeting facilities and more than 35,000 competitively priced hotel rooms.
• Detroit's Cobo Center offers 2.4 million square feet of meeting and exhibit space - 700,000 square feet of meeting space (600,000 contiguous)- plus 84 meeting rooms. Cobo Center is currently offering discounts on select dates.
• Detroit is undergoing the country's largest urban redevelopment boom with more than $20 billion in new development under way.
• Detroit is an international destination - located only one mile from Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
• Two new side-by-side stadiums- open-air Comerica Park and domed Ford Field - anchor the city's entertainment district. Both facilities can be used for trade shows or special events.
• Four casinos located within five miles of each other offer nonstop gaming action: MGM Grand Casino, MotorCity Casino, Greektown Casino and Casino Windsor.
• Detroit has world-class cultural attractions, entertainment and dining. In fact, the city was recently named by AmericanStyle readers as one of the top 25 arts destinations in the nation.
• The DMCVB's award-winning services will help make your convention or meeting a success. We can help you complete your bid process; create and deliver presentations; coordinate all requirements from hotels, convention space and transportation; provide support for local committees; work with local government; facilitate site inspections; act as a liaison for convention committees and the local community; and provide information to national offices and boards of directors.
• New luxury hotels with meeting space opening in the core of downtown Detroit: MGM Grand and MotorCity Casino hotels in 2007, and Greektown Casino and the Westin Book Cadillac in 2008.

We can also offer welcome programs, housing, attendance building, on-site registration support, and can act as a liaison between you and area service providers.