World travel award for the tenth time has awarded International Conventional Centre (ICC) in Durban as the leading conference centre and top twenty centres in the world. Conference Of Parties (COP17) delegates from 190 nations meet at the centre from 28th November 2011 – 9th December, 2011. Antony Ogolla a participant at the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) youth training on eco-justice sort to find out the antiques of the building with a functional space, aesthetic environment chosen to host the climate talks.
Venue of the COP17 in Durban South Africa
The International Convention Centre (ICC) is one of advanced conference facilities in the world. Its flexibility and versality are just some of the few factors used by in the design of this state of the art technology centre. It is a purpose built-fully air conditioned centre with convention halls that are interlinked but separate. It has moveable walls that allow for a number of different venue configurations. The centre has capacity host 5000 delegates and has 7000m squared of column free floor space. With the adjacent exhibition centre, the ICC can double its capacity to accommodate 10,000 delegates. The facility boasts of 25 meeting rooms.
In terms of technology and capacity to accommodate the media the centre is able to air live broadcasts as well as house lighting suitable for TV production and filming. Delegates are able to connect with Wi-fi and generators are always on standby in event of power outage.
The COP17 delegates will also have access to banking services, medical, postal and be able to purchase stationery when need under the same roof.
ICC Durban being a world class conference facility has received accreditation from ISO and was voted as the best in the marketing category in 1998 by the International Congress and Convention Association. The centre has also been recognized by Eskom for energy efficiency award and Ceterers’guild of South Africa for excellence award.
