Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre at Wanchai waterfront, opened in 1988, and in 1997, with an new extension, doubled the size, has today created one of the world's most impressive, efficient and functional meeting and exhibition venues. A massive aluminium roof captures the rhythm and delicacy of a seabird's wing. The world's tallest glass wall opens onto fantastic vistas of Hong Kong's famed harbour. A versatile, world-class venue offers gracious service and unbeatable facilities in the business heart of one of the world's greatest and most forward-looking cities. *** Voted "Asia Pacific's Leading Conference Centre 2002" at the 9th World Travel Awards by over a million travel agents from around the world. *** Voted "Best Exhibition Centre" for the second consecutive year by exhibition organisers in the annual exhibition venue survey 2002 conducted by CEI Asia Pacific. *** Hong Kong was voted the "Best Exhibition City" again in the same survey. *** Voted "Best Overseas Centre, Meetings Category" for the ninth consecutive year in the 2002 Meetings and Incentive Travel Industry Award, by readers of the leading UK trade magazine Meetings & Incentive Travel. *** Voted "Best Convention and Exhibition Centre" for the second consecutive year by Incentive & Meetings Asia in the IMA Asia Pacific MICE Awards 2000. *** Voted "Best Convention and Exhibition Centre" by travel professionals world-wide in the 1998 Travel Awards, organised by Miller Freeman Pte Ltd. *** Voted "one of the world's ten best international convention and exhibition centres" for the second consecutive year in Global Achievement Award 1999, by USA readers of Beyond Borders Magazine. *** Voted "Best Convention / Exhibition Centre" in the 1998 M&C Gold Service Awards; voted "Best Convention Centre" in the 1999 M&C Gold Awards by Meetings & Conventions Asia / Pacific. *** Winner of "The CIM Accolade Award 1997", voted by readers of the Australian trade magazine Convention & Incentive Marketing.*** Voted among the top three (3) of "10 Engineering Wonders in Hong Kong" in 2000, in a public election organised by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers in collaboration with the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and Hong Kong Science Museum. *** Voted one of the ten best architectural structures in Hong Kong in 1999, in a competition jointly organised by the Radio Television Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Institute of Architects and the Hong Kong Economic Times.