European Convention Centres: What's new.

Convention centres are springing up or being refurbished all around Europe. Abigail Wills provides a round-up of the main developments.

There will be a raft of new congress centres opening in Spain over the coming months. Being launched in the first quarter of 2011 are the Palacio de Congresos y Auditorio Beiramar in March and the Palacio de Congresos Ciudad de Oviedo in May, in northern Spain, which will have an auditorium for 2,150 delegates and 14 meeting rooms. In eastern Spain, the Lleida Conference Centre, known as 'La Llotja', was inaugurated in January. Construction of a new congress and exhibition centre is under way in Alicante. The building, with a distinctive …