Manchester Conference Centre
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The Manchester Conference Centre is a conference centre in Manchester, England. It is owned by The University of Manchester and located on the north of its main campus in the area that was occupied by UMIST before it merged with the Victoria University of Manchester in 2004.
When it was built in 1982, British universities had already become big players in the association conference market, providing large-scale facilities for conferences during university vacation down-time, and bringing in cash to help bridge the funding gap. The Manchester Conference Centre was built to appeal to the corporate market; the architecture is very modern, and all of its facilities are cutting-edge. The lower foyer features one of the few Foucault's pendulums in the United Kingdom, but this particular pendulum is pushed by an electro-magnet and no longer demonstrates the turning of the earth, but remains as an interesting feature of the centre. In recent years, the 117 hotel bedrooms have been franchised to Days Inn as a Days Hotel which has seen further growth in its business as a premium budget city centre hotel. A great factor in its success is that it is within 300 m of the Manchester Piccadilly station, Manchester's main west coast station. Manchester has seen a vast increase in hotel build in recent years and competition has been very stiff in the city.
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- Manchester Central (convention centre) Complex comprising two venues formerly known as the GMEX Centre and Manchester International Convention Centre (MICC) respectively.
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