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georgia international convention center 16 Welcome to the Georgia International Convention Center-Georgia’s second largest convention center. The GICC features 400,000 total square feet of flexible meeting space-32 meeting rooms, executive board rooms, exhibit hall space, a ballroom and plenty of parking spaces available on site. The 150,000 square foot Exhibit Hall is divisible into four separate halls which can hold over 800 10’ x 10’ booths and we also boast Georgia’s largest ballroom-40,000 square feet with room enough to seat over 3,000 guests. Conveniently located 10 minutes from downtown Atlanta, the GICC is the first convention center to be directly connected to a major airport by way of the ATL SkyTrain-a guided railway system that transports passengers from the airport free of charge to the GICC and also to the airport rental car center. We are proud to have two convention hotels-a full service 403-room Marriott hotel and a 147-room SpringHill Suites, both LEED-certified and there are an additional 8,000+ hotel rooms within a 2-mile radius of the convention center. Mercedes Miller, Exec. Dir. GICC The GICC has one of the finest culinary arts centers in the Southeast-its 9,800 square foot, state of the art kitchen is managed by Georgia’s top caterer, Proof of the Pudding. They are rapidly becoming known for innovative, palate-pleasing cuisine with an impassioned focus on providing quality fare with a twist. The CulinAero program has reinvented the traditional convention food and beverage program to produce food of the highest quality made with fresh, sustainable ingredients. This is not your traditional institutional, mediocre food but a wide range of ethnic, regional and international dishes prepared using tec