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Inspiration For Business Meetings, Events, Conferences & More A Bold Plan Takes Shape Savour the City Places + Spaces 5 9 Quartier des spectacles Lipstick Forest, Palais des congrès contents James Kozukan A Bold Plan Takes Shape 5 Manager, Meetings and Convention Montreal’s billion-dollar renewal Sales - Canadian Market 514.844.1290 Interview With... 6 [email protected] Charles Lapointe, Tourisme Montréal Sabrina Pergass Manager, Small & Express Meetings Palais des congrès 9 - Canada & USA 514.844.6282 The world at its doorstep [email protected] r e City of Festivals 14 m a r Elena Mastrogiuseppe C c Inspiration and ideas for r Manager, Corporate Market a M , l - Canada & USA your next event a é r t 514.844.7589 n o M mastrogiuseppe.elena@tourisme- Places + Spaces 17 e m s i montreal.org r u Extraordinary off-site venues o T ] t h General information: g i R Tourisme Montréal CVB 26 p T. 514.844.5400 o T [ ; l F. 514.844.0541 a Home team advantage é r t 1.800.230.0001 n o M e m s Tourisme Montréal i r u o 1555 Peel Street, Suite 600 T ] t f Montréal, Québec H3A 3L8 e L p o On the cover: Marina, Old Port of Montreal T [ Circus Arts Festival : 14 o www.tourisme-montreal.org/meet t Photo credit: Tibor Gognar o h P Produced by Ignite | ignitemag.ca Printed in Canada tourisme-montreal.org | MONTREAL 3 Montreal energized! A Bold Plan Takes Shape Montreal is undergoing a billion-dollar science and technology assets. This long- transformation. Montreal 2025 is the blue - term project features the construction of the print for the future and involves channeling new $2-billion Université de Montréal Hospital the city’s considerable creative energy Centre (CHUM), which will be part of the planned Quartier de la santé health district. and talent into designing new public spaces. Montreal Harbourfront is an ambitious plan The plan features four strategic initiatives: to reconnect the city with the magnificent St. Lawrence River. The $6.4-billion plan Quartier des spectacles is a $1.9-billion includes demolishing and redeveloping project to provide space and support for the Bonaventure Expressway, expanding culture, cultural workers and creators. This recreational, tourist and cultural attractions , new Entertainment District features dozens creating blue and green spaces, and the of concert halls, theatres, galleries, pubs introduction of a harbourfront tramway. and restaurants. Most spectacular of all is Quartier de la vie (natural sciences). c n a l Place des Festivals (festival square), a Montreal’s Nature Museums is a tourism, b e L s i massive outdoor public space where museum and ecological project. With an o ç n a international calibre events are held investment of $189 million, the plan includes r F - n throughout the year, such as the Montreal the construction of the Rio Tinto Alcan a e J , International Jazz Festival. Planetarium, the Montréal Biodiversity a r t c e Montreal Technopole is an initiative to Centre, the creation of a Human Ecosystem p S ] t f build a city of knowledge, creativity and exhibition at the Biodôme and the intro - e L [ : innovation. The goal is to attract new talent duction of a Metamorphosis project at o t o Place des Arts h P and companies by developing Montreal’s the Insectarium. Photo: Tourisme Montréal, Jean-Guy Bergeron Quartier des spectacles is home to 80 cultural Quartier des spectacles venues, 30 theatres and 450 cultural businesses . Place des Arts is being redeveloped and building houses such meeting spaces as street for outdoor festivals, events and includes five state-of-the-art performance the Astral multipurpose performance hall temporary art installations. halls to host dance, theatre, opera, musical, and the TD Gallery Lounge. The SBC Underground culture flourishes in the comedy and circus performances. Place Gallery of Contemporary Art is a non-profit Quartier alongside the established arts. des Arts is home to the Montreal Symphony centre that provides office and exhibition Bar venues include Katacombes , a co-op Orchestra, the Jean Duceppe Theatre space to a number of public art galleries. run space with a punk twist. Over three company, Opéra de Montréal, and Les The Luminous Pathway features special decades, Foufounes Electriques has Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal. lighting and signage technology to showcase welcomed bands such as The Smashing Art and cultural spaces abound in the walkways, neighbourhood architecture Pumpkins and hosted countless events. Quartier. Maison du Festival Rio Tinto and the rhythms of cultural activities. Café Chaos offers three floors of party and Montreal International Jazz Festival Alcan is dedicated to all things jazz. The Promenade des Artistes is a new pedestrian event space. Quartier des spectacles tourisme-montreal.org | MONTREAL 5 Montreal energized! Interview with... Charles Lapointe president and CEO of Tourisme Montréal, knows the city inside and out. He Word is ... gives the inside scoop on key revitalization projects. • Montreal is investing close to $2 billion in its tourism infrastructure. People may not realize that Montreal is undergoing A little bit north is the Entertainment District, • Greater Montreal added 5,000 hotel rooms over a renaissance. How are key areas of the city being which we call Quartier des spectacles. The the past decade. improved or reinvented? Place des Festivals opened in 2010, and we • Montreal annually hosts 300 conventions, It all started 10 years ago with the rebirth of are rearranging the streets to create an artists ’ conferences, seminars and business meetings. Old Montreal, which is mostly a 19th century avenue. The Montreal Symphony Orchestra area and the largest old city in North America. will be moving into its new concert hall in – The Honourable Charles Lapointe , P.C., President and Chief There is new life in this area–more people September 2011. Just west of downtown, Executive Officer, Tourisme Montréal, in an address to The Canadian are living there and there are new restaurants where Concordia University is located, the Club of Montreal, Feb. 7, 2011 and hotels. main thoroughfares have been rearranged Adjacent to Old Montreal is a new area and Place Norman Bethune enlarged. called Quartier International. It features Southwest, the Lachine Canal has been l a é r the Montreal convention centre (Palais des rehabilitated and the entire area reborn. t Planners must satisfy the diverse expectations of meeting delegates. n o congrès), new hotels, new public squares The city is much more beautiful than it was 20 M Why is Montreal the ideal choice for business gatherings? e m s i and spaces and there are also 68 interna - years ago, it has become more elegant. I think r Montreal is probably the only city in North America where you u o T tional organizations with their head offices these changes are making the city much more : can function in both French and English. This is an advantage o t o in the area. congenial for delegates and major meetings. h for any meeting because you are able to attract more delegates P from Europe, the United States and Canada. Montreal is famous for its joie de vivre. How do visitors get a real taste of city life? There is a lifestyle in Montreal–we live to eat and go out. You will see people in the streets very late at night, so it’s not a quiet place. We have a thriving arts community and major arts companies like the Opéra de Montréal. We host 206 festivals per year and the two largest–the International Jazz Festival and the Just For Laughs Festival–take place on the streets. We never hesitate to put the public domain–streets, parks and open spaces–at the disposal of our festivals. This is what creates a highly animated city. So much has been accomplished. What’s next on your to-do list? We’re gearing up for 2017, which marks Montreal’s 375th anniversary, the 50th anniversary of Expo ’67 and Canada’s 150th birthday. There will be events all year-round. Take flight Air Canada is now offering up to 15 flights daily between Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport and downtown Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport. Montreal is planning a high-speed rail connection between its downtown core and Trudeau Airport, which recently added an international arrivals com plex. Palais des congrès The world at its doorstep he Palais des congrès is a world-class The Palais is also in the midst of a three-year convention centre strategically situated in strategic plan to significantly increase its available T the heart of Montreal. meeting, convention and exhibition space, and is doing so by making imaginative use of what Located in the financial district (Quartier Inter - it’s already got. For example, the 80,000-sq.-ft., national) and close to dozens of corporate street-level concourse is now available for headquarters and international embassies, the events and exhibitions. Another unique space, convention centre is bordered by the new En - called the Lipstick Forest, features 52 concrete tertainment District (Quartier des spectacles) , tree sculptures painted a bold shade of pink. Chinatown, Old Montreal, and the Quartier de la santé (health district). The Palais’s 140,000-sq.-ft. rooftop is one of the largest in the downtown core and it is being The city is literally at its doorstep. The Palais is converted to event space featuring botanical within walking distance to 15,000 hotel rooms, and vegetable gardens. 4,500 of which have an indoor connection thanks to the city’s underground pedestrian network The city recently agreed to make public spaces (RÉSO) , and the subway system (Metro).