City of the Week - Dallas

Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 7/10/2006

Highlights

• The largest capital development plan in the history of the Dallas-Fort Worth Intl. Airport ($2.7 billion) is complete, doubling its capacity to 250 gates and providing an automated people mover system to deliver end-to-end terminal connections in eight minutes. A Grand Hyatt Hotel in the international terminal opened in July.

Number of separate exhibit facilities

• 7

Total exhibition space at venues

• 2.1 million sq. ft.

Largest venue

• Dallas Convention Center (726,726 sq. ft. of exhibit space)

Last venue expansion

• The DCC added 210,000 sq. ft. of exhibit and lobby space in 2003.

Number of convention hotel rooms

• 70,991 in 597 hotels

Average room rate

• $90

Largest 2005 tradeshow

• Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society Annual Conference & Exhibition at 320,000 sq. ft. (DCC)

Number of hotels within one mile of the DCC

• 17

Sources: 2005 TSW Major Exhibit Hall Directory; 2006 TSW 200; Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau