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2017
Annual
Report
20
Bring It Home
conventions
EDW's Bring It Home program encourages local businesses
and community leaders to advocate Winnipeg as the city of
choice for national and international meetings and conventions.
From its inception in 2012 to 2017, Bring It Home helped facilitate
128 meetings, bringing more than approximately 10,500 delegates
to Winnipeg for 77,000 room nights and generating an estimated
direct spend of more than $81.5 million.
In 2017 alone, 25 future meetings were confirmed for Winnipeg. These represent
approximately 9,500 delegates, 16,000 room nights and an approximate direct
spend of $10.5 million.
BRING IT HOME
SUCCESSES
Event Spotlight
2019 Canadian Bar Association
Immigration Law Conference
Tourism Winnipeg partnered with Sofia Mirza, a lawyer and Winnipeg immigration
law expert, to bring the 2019 CBA Immigration Law Conference to Winnipeg in June
2019. The conference will attract approximately 600 delegates and generate an
estimated $660,000 of direct spending. This annual event is Canada's premiere
conference on immigration, refugee and citizenship law where immigration
practitioners and policy makers share their knowledge and experience.
direct spend
room nights
delegates
8,000
9,000
$8.6
million
2017 Results
