Despite convention tourism declining in the US, the government continues to make the centers bigger. The projects are mainly viewed as investments into the image of the cities.

The ‘bigger is better’ attitude to life is not applicable to every situation yet it certainly makes a good description of the current attitude in the USA towards the building of convention centers.

A number of projects have recently been established on American soil to build meeting halls, conference rooms and convention hotels of which Americans should be proud. The problem is that the demand for such impressive structures and the need for such projects are in decline.

To state an example: the Indianapolis Convention Center has doubled its meeting space within the last year and is now capable of entertaining twice as many business people as before. It

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