Compact Centre

A variety of reasons make Rotterdam an attractive host city for international association conferences. The city is well accessible from all over the world and features a compact city centre with all conference centres, hotels, restaurants and the main train station at an easy walk’s remove from each other. The city is home to modern conference halls which can welcome well over 11,000 attendees. Rotterdam hotels run the gamut from the simple to the highly luxurious, and in total have over 6,500 rooms on offer – a number that will increase in the years to come. Hotels are available in every price category: from those for the budget traveller (e.g., the new Easyhotel) to luxury five-star hotels (e.g., the new Mainport Hotel), and everything in between (e.g., CitizenM, the Room Mate Hotel and Ibis Hotel Wijnhaven). The Municipality of Rotterdam is set to pour large investments into the area surrounding Ahoy Rotterdam, turning it into the beating heart of Rotterdam-Zuid. Ahoy Rotterdam itself will, for instance, be considerably enlarged and will come to feature an international conference centre, a music hall, a cinema and a hotel.