HKCEC, Hkcec

Hi, my name’s Marcy, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, which each year welcomes several million visitors.

If you stop along the Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade in Kowloon to admire the view of Hong Kong Island, there’s a highly unusual building that’s bound to catch your eye: the Convention and Exhibition Center, spectacular by day and surprisingly beautiful at night thanks to the colorful neon lights.

This is a venue of international importance for trade fairs, exhibitions, conventions, meetings and fashion shows. It hosts so many events that since it opened in 1988, it has required major work to expand the facility on two occasions, and now measures in excess of an impressive 92,000 square meters.

From the outside, the central structure is especially striking as it is entirely covered in glass and aluminum and has a roof designed to represent the wings of a seagull taking flight. From above, it resembles a spaceship and in reality, it’s almost as technological and futuristic as one....