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The
National Exhibition Centre
The Busiest Exhibition Centre in Europe
The
National Exhibition Centre is the busiest exhibition centre in Europe,
staging more than 180 exhibitions each year, ranging from world-famous
public exhibitions such as Crufts and the British International Motor Show
to international trade exhibitions such as IPEX (International Print
Exhibition) and Spring Fair, Birmingham.
Up to four million people visit the exhibition centre each year. With 20
exhibition halls totalling 200,000 square metres it is also the biggest
exhibition centre in Britain and seventh largest in Europe. The National
Exhibition Centre is renowned for large-scale international trade
exhibitions, but also has an active interest in helping smaller specialist
exhibitions develop, providing advice, support and essential services to
exhibition organisers.
The National Exhibition Centre is often described as an exhibition
‘village’. It has its own network of roads, four on-site hotels, a lake,
22,000 car parking spaces, and its own security, traffic and fire fighting
forces.
In addition to exhibitions, a range of 44 different conference suites,
with the latest in presentation technology and a first class catering
team, provide an ideal environment for conferences, seminars and meetings
to accommodate from 20-700 delegates or banqueting facilities for up to
400 guests.
For
events taking place
click here.
The NIA
The home of indoor sport
The NIA, in the centre of Birmingham, is the home of British indoor
sporting events. It is designed to accommodate more than 30 different
types of sport from athletics to boxing; from tennis to judo and has
hosted an array of world championships.
The 13,000-arena has the country's only six-lane 200-metre athletics
track, which is dismantled and stored away when not in use.
Concerts, entertainment and business conferences and exhibitions are also
staged at The NIA, including television's Gladiators, which was filmed
there every year since 1992, and attracted audiences up to 13 million for
each televised show. The Eurovision Song Contest in 1998 attracted a
worldwide television audience of 100 million.
For
events taking place
click here.
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