M+IT Niagara Supplement 2017

NIAGARA FALLS & REGION WHERE BUSINESS MEETS

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Plan to be impressed.

The Scotiabank Convention Centre makes doing business easy. Only steps away from Niagara Falls (252 to be exact!), this is the perfect venue for those hosting a business event. Attendees, delegates and exhibitors are surrounded by world-renowned wineries, oneof-a-kind attractions and Four & Five Star hotel accommodations.

In addition, we’re an easy drive from three international airports.

Choose from Toronto Pearson or Hamilton International airports, while our American crowds can fly into Buffalo.

Planning an event is no small task, and we understand the challenges that come along with it. That’s why we offer a highly functional facility.

Our bright and open function spaces, pillar-free exhibit hall, as well as our exquisite ballroom and flexible meeting space will prove to be ideal spots for your meeting or event. Moreover, our dedicated and passionate event professionals work hard to consistently meet your unique needs.

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What’s a trip to Niagara without taking in all of the flavours it has to offer? There is something for everyone at Niagara’s many world-renowned wineries. With its unique micro-climate, the perfect conditions are created for Niagara’s growing agricultural and viticultural industries, and our Chef is right in the middle of it all!

We help every step of the way to ensure a stress-free and positive event experience.

Our menus are created using locallysourced, seasonal ingredients. Even the most selective palates will be impressed by the culinary stylings of our Executive Chef James Price.

After a busy day of meetings and activities, you need a place to wind down and relax for the night.

With more than 4,000 Four & Five Star hotel rooms within a five minute walk from the Scotiabank Convention Centre, you’re sure to find something that meets your needs and budget. In addition, we have the capacity to deliver large room blocks with a total of more than 14,000 rooms available throughout the city. We are proud to be one of the few destinations in Canada that can make this claim!

The Scotiabank Convention Centre takes great pride to ensure the successful outcome of every meeting and event. We provide best in class performance through service excellence and an easy-going, can-do attitude.

We look forward to working with you!

For more information visit: fallsconventions.com

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ADVERTORIAL

THIS IS NIAGARA FALLS...

Niagara Falls Business Events is the result of a new partnership between the Scotiabank Convention Centre and Niagara Falls Tourism. Working side-by-side with a network of industry partners from across the destination, the team at Niagara Falls Business Events is excited at the opportunity to match our partners’ world-class products and services to fit the varied needs of planners and executives.

What’s more, our team is eager to support these needs in every way through the delivery of professional planning expertise and client focused solutions.

world-famous waterfall

Our mandate is to take Canada’s top leisure destination and make it a top-of-mind choice for meetings, conventions and events. As a team with a winning attitude, we take an active role in presenting Niagara Falls as an attractive business events destination and showcasing its unique power to create great meeting experiences. Get to know our team and make them your first point of contact by visiting the recently relaunched fallsmeetings.com

Here are some of the ways they can help make your next meeting, conference or special event succeed in the best way possible: • Planning services

• Event promotion

• Booking support

• Welcome kits

• Tax rebate guidance

• Site inspections

• Transportation support

• Agenda development

• Bid assistance

• Delegate gifts

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season leisure destination

• Supplier introductions

PLAN TO BE IMPRESSED.

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#MeetInNiagara

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state-of-the-art convention centre

minutes from Toronto Pearson International Airport minutes from Buffalo Niagara International Airport minutes from Hamilton International Airport

dining, shopping, attraction & recreational opportunities

branded hotels with exible meeting space

120+

world-class wineries

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ADVERTORIAL

taking tradeshows to the big time SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

With the line between conference and tradeshow ever-blurring, White Oaks Conference Resort & Spa now features The Exhibition Hall, a big time event space for a seamless experience.

What do you do when your conference has a trade show/ exhibit element to it? A trade show needs a lot of space which can typically only be found in large convention centres and exhibition halls. In contrast, a conference demands a dedicated space with comfortable meeting rooms, state of the art technology, amazing food and outstanding service. It’s difficult to combine both for a seamless experience.

space and it could easily connect to our conference centre!” reports Richard Reid, General Manager at White Oaks Conference Resort & Spa.

EXHIBITION HALL FEATURES 24,780 sq. ft.

Carpeted Space Fits 60, 10’x10’ Booths with Breakfast/Lunch Seating for 320 (or 110, 10’x10’ Booths)

“We had many conference clients expanding their events to include trade show elements and as their events grew, so did their space requirements. It’s not ideal to snake trade show booths throughout the public spaces or jam them into your largest meeting room. The demand was growing in our business and there was no solution in sight until one day, while looking out over the tennis courts in our club a light bulb went on! That’s a ton of open

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Continuous Coffee Break Stations Perfect Flow from Meeting Space to Registration Area to Exhibition Hall

After careful consideration an architect was called in and construction began on making alterations to the existing tennis court building.

A double doorway was created leading directly into the facility’s conference centre providing clients with the perfect space solution. The Exhibition Hall at White Oaks was born!

Large groups can now meet in the comfort of our amazing conference facility, stay in our fantastic rooms and dine in style throughout their entire event. Best of all, the trade show environ connects directly with the conference centre, allowing delegates to walk freely between meetings and the show.

Take a virtual tour on our website and see the full extent of this great new space at White Oaks Conference Resort & Spa, submit your RFP or call for details.

1.800.263.5766 | WHITEOAKSRESORT.COM

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meet great here.

Great events need the right mix of unspoken perfection and something to talk about. With our engaging spaces, stellar dining & luxurious Niagara accommodations... discover why you’ll Meet Great Here.

WHITEOAKSRESORT.COM 1-800-263-5766

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BEGIN HERE, AT NIAGARA PARKS Often conferences are starting points.

They are rallying moments for any organization, association or company. A time to perhaps look back on past achievements and where you’ve been, while also looking ahead, charting the course forward and strategically determining where you’re going.

They are beginnings.

In Canada’s 150th year, Niagara Parks cordially invites you to Begin Here.

Niagara Parks represents a starting point for so much of Canada, whether historically, naturally and culturally, or as one of Canada’s most popular gateways, and in this celebratory year we hope all visitors to this country will Begin Here with us. So, as you look for that epic setting to wow your delegates and energize employees, know that only Niagara Parks offers breathtaking fallsview dining, inspirational outdoor garden venues, legendary golf courses, awesome natural attractions, and exclusive nature and heritage experiences.

We offer five magnificent venues that are perfect for conference receptions and dinner events. Niagara Parks landmark venue at the brink of the Falls, the Table Rock Centre, features a splendid Grand Hall and the elegant Elements on the Falls restaurant. Our vast, open terraced Queen Victoria Place Restaurant combines the classic feel of Niagara Falls’ oldest restaurant with a stunning view of both the Bridal Veil and Horseshoe Falls. Lastly, our Queenston Heights restaurant showcas-

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es the history of one of Canada’s oldest communities, with an unrivaled view across Lake Ontario.

Our outdoor venues include spectacular park-lands, diverse gardens, and four championship Niagara Parks Golf courses. Our prestigious course, Legends on the Niagara, hosted the 2004 LPGA, and our classic Whirlpool course has been consistently ranked as one of Canada’s best courses.

Coming back to Elements on the Falls for a moment, new for Canada’s celebratory year, our all-season flagship restaurant (as close to the falls as you can actually get) has been freshly renovated. What’s more? At the very brink of the falls, just steps from your venue, will be an iconic, illuminated Canada 150 installation, making your engagement even more engaging, and one of Canada’s most photographic locations even more photogenic.

Of course, a venue is one thing, what’s on your plate is something completely different, and making that difference is where our Niagara Parks Culinary team really excels. Partnering with the Cana-

dian Culinary Tourism Alliance (CCTA), Wine Country Ontario, and Ontario Craft Brewers, our expertly trained Culinary team ensures that your Niagara Parks event rounds out your sensory experience with the tastes of Niagara. Certified as part of CCTA’s #FeastOn program, Wine Country Ontario’s #WeLoveWine program, and Ontario Craft Brewers Approved, we are sure to source both our food and beverage ingredients from local growers and producers.

Whether it’s an incentive for 12 or convention dinner for 1000 our venues are the perfect choice. Count on us to assist with attendance building, videos, images, shell brochures, attraction brochures and “swag” for delegate bags, discount pricing on falls merchandise and stunning floral created by our own Niagara Parks Nature & Gardens staff. We’re a one-stop source that will assist with site inspections, create an entire themed event, organize a golf tournament or handle the booking of all tours.

For a full, authentic, and extraordinary Niagara event experience, we are at your service.

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Professional and Unforgettable Events Every Time!

Choose from three unique and beautiful Niagara-on-the-Lake venues that have been recognized and awarded by leading travel publications and corporate planners as one of Canada’s best destinations for corporate events. Nestled in the heart of Ontario wine country, surrounded by beautiful landscapes and world-renowned attractions, Vintage Hotels offers truly unforgettable events.

Each hotel features outstanding business amenities including expert staging, multimedia, and high-speed internet and WiFi capabilities. Highly experienced, in-house expert planners will work closely with you to plan your event down to the smallest detail. Executive chefs from each hotel have meticulously crafted meeting and event menus that showcase the regions finest fare that can be tailored specially to your groups.

Just a short drive from Toronto and close-by airports, each hotel offers quick access to regional attractions that range from world-class theatre and golf, sightseeing and shopping to magnificent wine-tasting and craft brewery tours.

Prince of Wales Hotel & Spa is among

Queen’s Landing is all about elegant

Dating back to the 1890s, Pillar and Post

Ontario’s most treasured landmark hotels

luxury set against a stunning waterfront

has been carefully transformed into an

and is perfect for small executive gatherings backdrop of the Niagara River and Lake

intimate, world-class hotel featuring modern

and corporate retreats. The hotel offers

Ontario. The Grand Georgian Ballroom

amenities, a world-renowned spa, outdoor

over 4,400 square feet of meeting space,

accommodates up to 300, and has over

hot springs and incredible dining. There are

with seven meeting rooms and 110

a dozen smaller rooms suitable for

11 meeting rooms offering a warm, country

individually decorated guestrooms. The

breakouts and more intimate meetings.

ambience, comprising over 11,500 square

hotel’s concierge team are renowned for

As Vintage Hotels’ most popular

feet of meeting space. After wrapping the

their outstanding expertise in providing

conference hotel, the staff and meeting

day you will retire in comfort to one of our

exceptional and personal service and the

planners are well experienced and fully

122 cozy guestrooms.

central location offers immediate access to

skilled in the art of event management.

Niagara-on-the-Lake’s downtown core.

To find out more, or to book your next conference in Niagara-on-the-Lake, contact the Vintage Hotels’ Sales Team at 1-888-669-5566, salesinquiry@vintage-hotels.com or visit www.vintage-hotels.com.

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Always exxceptional, forr you and your guests.

When you book your meeting or event with Vintage Hotels you can relax knowing your attendees will experience award-winning accommodations, outstanding service, impeccably prepared meals and exciting excursions that inspire.

“It was Perfect!!”

TripAdvisor, July 2017

“We are so impressed with the Queen’s Landing. The meals, rooms, service and the pre-planning was excellent! Our group has returned for a third conference and has just informed me that they want to go back next year! Our group was so appreciative with the hospitality.

They said, that the Queen’s Landing treated them like Royalty… Peggy went over and above the call of duty to make sure all our requests for the conference were met before and during the stay. ” www.vintage-hotels.com | 1.888.669.5566 | salesinquiry@vintage-hotels.com | Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON

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There’s no denying the lure of our famous waterfall, but we know great business events are about more than just the view. We’re also home to over 90 wineries, a world-class casino, delectable local cuisine, and championship golf courses. We’ve got the accommodation, the expertise and the meeting and convention space for events from intimate meetings to large conferences. Discover the many reasons why your next great business event should happen here.

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#MeetInNiagara

PLAN TO BE IMPRESSED.

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