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Edmonton offers a diverse range of accommodations to suit your planning needs, from luxury hotels and historic properties, to suite hotels and bed-and-breakfasts. An excellent value for meeting planners, the city boasts some of the lowest hotel room rates in Canada and an abundance of hotel guest rooms ­ over 9,000 in total. About 3,000 of those rooms are centrally located close to major meeting facilities in downtown.
Holding your meeting at one of Edmonton¹s many high-quality hotel properties guarantees good service and professional courtesy ­ city hotel staff have many years of experience in meetings and conferences, many with full-time meeting planners on staff to assist the execution of your event. In fact, staff at many of Edmonton's leading hotels are graduates of the acclaimed SERVICE BEST hospitality program through Alberta¹s Training for Excellence Corporation (ATEC).

QUICK FACTS
-Edmonton has more than 9,000 hotel guest rooms and some of the lowest room rates in the country
-Alberta has a hotel tax of only five percent
-Edmonton offers the provinces¹ lowest year-round hotel rates
-The historic Hotel Macdonald frequently hosts visiting celebrities and dignitaries
-Edmonton has over 92,000 square metres (one million square feet) of meeting and exhibition space in more than 20 major conference sites, not including hotels.
-Edmonton has over 70 hotels, inns, lodges and cabins. The Edmonton metro region has more than 11,500 hotel rooms, over 9,000 in the city itself. Another 1,500 rooms are in the surrounding region.
-Visitors to Edmonton can enjoy the lowest hotel room rates and average meal cost of any major city in Canada. Alberta is the only province without a provincial sales tax and Alberta's total accommodation tax (GST, room tax, and other goods) is also the lowest in the country.
-The amount of retail space in Edmonton keeps retail leasing costs among the lowest in North American major cities.
-West Edmonton Mall, the largest shopping center in the world, has 800 stores and is equivalent in size to 48 city blocks. Not far behind it is South Edmonton Common, which features the largest Real Canadian Superstore in Canada (13,000 square metres). It also features Pier 1, Cineplex Odeon, Home Depot, etc.

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