Talk:National Exhibition Centre

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[edit] Discrepancies

There seem to be different data between this article and the NEC website:

Wikipedia:

"It has 20 interconnected halls"

"190,000 m²"

"host over 5 million visitors each year"

"is the seventh largest exhibition centre in Europe"

NEC:

"21 halls"

"200,000 square metres (two million square feet)"

"Up to four million people visit the centre each year."

"the busiest exhibition centre in Europe" (of course on the very same page its says: "and seventh largest in Europe"; dorks!)

[edit] Explanation of above

The NEC has 21 halls in total.... hall 1 hall 2 hall 3 hall 3a (joined to hall3) hall 4 hall 5 Pavilion Arena Forum (the above halls make up the "Piazza")

hall 6 hall 7 hall 8 hall 9 hall 10 hall 11 hall 12 hall 16 (tempory external building) hall 17 hall 18 hall 19 hall 20 (the above halls make up the "Atrium" and "Concourse")

The NEC is seventh largest in floor space, but the busiest in terms of the number of exhibitions that are hosted there each year.