Congress and exhibition centers: places of attraction for business tourists and investors

One of the most profitable and promising directions of tourism is becoming business tourism, in which exhibitions, congresses and other types of business events play a huge role. The competitiveness of business tourism is influenced by the created professional city or regional structures, at the expense of which the practical side of the organization of business meetings is realized. To these structures one of the most important are congress and exhibition centers, which are key elements of the city or region, which represent and promote them, and are created to provide tourist services to tourists visiting the city or region for business travel combined with recreation. The article presents the role of convention and exhibition centers in the organization of business events. The functions of convention and exhibition centers are considered and the necessity of their creation and development is outlined.