Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China

Tokyo International Exhibition Center, Tokyo, Japan

Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Australia

Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Kölnarena, Köln, Germany

STAPLES Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, Australia

Coors Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, California, USA

A Note to WCVM Members and Associates

The World Council for Venue Management (WCVM) unites a number of major associations worldwide that represent public assembly venue industry professionals and facilities.

Its five current member associations together provide professional resources, forums and benefits for more than 5,000 individuals who manage and operate venue facilities or are otherwise allied with the industry. They further represent 1,200 of the world's stadia, arenas, coliseums, convention/exhibition centers, performing arts centers and conference venues.

Founded in 1997, the WCVM seeks actively to enhance communication and professional development through the exchange of information and technology among member associations and their individual members in order to facilitate wider knowledge and understanding of the public assembly venue industry.

The impetus for the establishment of the WCVM arose from a felt need on the part of the founding associations to reach out to an international audience and share information and data on a global basis while in no way diluting the quality services the associations were already providing to their local members.

This impetus was carried forward at a meeting in Barcelona, Spain, in June 1996, held at the invitation of the European Arenas Association, the Venue Management Association (Asia and Pacific) Limited, and the International Association of Assembly Managers.

This meeting affirmed the value of a worldwide organization that would meet the global information and communication resource needs of a large number of existing associations in the public assembly venue management industry.

The current member associations of the WCVM are: Association Internationale des Palais de Congrès (AIPC), Asia Pacific Exhibition and Convention Council (APECC), European Association of Event Centers (EVVC), International Association of Assembly Managers (IAAM) and the Venue Management Association (Asia and Pacific) Limited (VMA).

We cordially encourage all working professionals in the public assembly venue industry as well others with an interest in the industry to browse this website to discover the many and varied benefits and resources that the WCVM has to offer.

Hyperlinks within this website will take you to the WCVM Secretariat, the officers of the WCVM, and to each member association and its senior representatives.

WCVM Chairman:
Barbara Maple
General Manager
Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre
Suite 200
999 Canada Place
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6C 3C1
Tel: 1-604-647-7201
Fax: 1-604-647-7232
E-mail: bmaple@bcpavco.com

WCVM Secretary General:
Marianne de Raay
55 Rue de I'Amazone 1060
Brussels, Belgium
Tel: 32-2-534-59-53
Fax: 32-2-534-63-38
E-mail: marianne.de.raay@aipc.org

Our Objectives

The objectives of the WCVM are to:

1. contribute to the better understanding of the public assembly venue industry;
2. encourage mutual assistance and cooperation among the member associations;
3. facilitate the sharing of information, technology and research related to the profession of public assembly venue management;
4. facilitate communication among the member associations and their individual members to improve and enhance the knowledge and understanding of the public assembly venue management industry worldwide;
5. provide immediate and efficient access to represented venues and individuals for member associations and their individual members;
6. establish periodic meetings sponsored by the WCVM in order to share information and educational/professional development activities related to the profession of public assembly venue management and operations, and;
7. to pursue these objectives by adopting the following strategies:
   

• display the WCVM logo wherever possible on publications and stationery;
• provide reciprocal member benefits between members of the WCVM and between their respective individual members;
• contribute information and data to a common resource center;
• participate in joint member activities, and;
• subscribe to a guiding vision statement of the WCVM that speaks to the improvement of the profession of public assembly venue management and operations.

What We Do

To achieve the above objectives, the WCVM :

1. gathers and disseminates information about new and effective ways to operate and manage public assembly venues;
2. provides a forum for the exchange of information, papers, articles and research related to the practice of public assembly venue management;
3. facilitates access to the resources of the member associations for individual members of all WCVM associations by providing limited reciprocal membership benefits, such as the ability to attend meetings, purchase or subscribe to publications, attend educational programs and access data and other resource materials;
4. encourages mutual assistance between and among the member associations and their respective members;
5. explores the exchange of events or programs that may be of mutual benefit or interest among all WCVM association membership, and;
6. promotes the creation of a worldwide internet communications exchange.

We thank you for visiting us and appreciate your interest in the WCVM. We encourage you to contact the Secretariat or any of the officers of the WCVM for further information and assistance.

Websites

AIPC
Association Internationale des Palais de Congrès
http://www.aipc.org

EVVC
European Association of Event Centers
http://www.evvc.org

IAAM
International Association of Assembly Managers
http://www.iaam.org

VMA
Venue Management Association (Asia and Pacific) Limited
http://www.vma.org.au