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focus solely on meeting and convention business and leave transient tourism marketing to other entities. CVB’s can either be membership based just like an association or non membership based. CVB’s are primarily funded by the local governments, usually through a portion of hotel occupancy taxes. As the marketing arm of the destination, the CVB is responsible for creating public awareness about its destination and ultimately booking the meeting and event business that feeds the economic engine of the region. Conference Tourism enhances the quality of life for a local community through creating jobs, bringing in tax Dollars (hotel taxes) for improvement of service and infrastructure, and improving quality of life for citizens among others. Conference Tourism is one of the world’s largest service exports and largest employers on the planet. In the US for example travel and tourism ranks as the 6th biggest employment sector providing jobs to 14.4 million people; direct travel spending contributed more that $ 813 billion to the Nations economy in 2011 and generated $124 billion in tax revenues (2012 report from travel industry association). Indeed Kenya has to realize that travel and conference tourism is a mighty economic engine and CVB’s are the key drivers. National and County Governments should actively invest time and resources in this venture and be willing to foot the bill to set the ball rolling. Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI) launched a new event impact calculator which proves the It will be interesting to measure the im- pact of The Nairobi Hospital Convention Centre as it enhances the destinations at- tractiveness to host medical and health conferences in Nairo- bi, Kenya and Africa at large. To be certain, Nairobi has never lost its vibrant conference tourism product. The product has to be made more at- tractive and the value proposition more outstanding. Many cities are loudly showing off their value while Nairobi is yet to properly package itself. value meetings and conventions have to their local economies. Instead of relying on national spending averages for meetings the event impact calculator allows CVBs to measure the economic impact by local standards. The calculator provides a dynamic and credible industry standard to quantify an events full economic value in terms of direct expenditure, taxes, employment, wages and total return on investment. It will be interesting to measure the impact of The Nairobi Hospital Convention Centre as it enhances the destinations attractiveness to host medical and health conferences in Nairobi, Kenya and Africa at large. The Nairobi Hospital Convention Centre (TNHCC) is a new facility in the competitive Meetings Incentives Conference and Exhibitions (MICE) Business. We are confident that TNHCC will have strong results again in 2019, recent economic developments notwithstanding. Located in Nairobi’s Upper Hill business hub with a dramatic Ngong Hills backdrop, the state of the art Nairobi Hospital Convention Centre offers one of the most beautiful settings in the world and convenient access to all the major visitor amenities (5 star Hotels; Leading Commercial Banks, Nairobi National Park; Royal Nairobi Golf Course; Jomo Kenyatta International Airport; Wilson Airport and All leading Malls). As a Health Industry flagship convention center, the facility boasts of more than 22 fully equipped meeting rooms and an exhibition Centre. The Centre Hosts over 500 events annually and welcomes hundreds of thousands of attendees each year, while generating significant economic activity for destination Kenya. Since beginning operations in 2017, our mandate is to generate economic and community benefits for Nairobi and the destination at large through the management and marketing of Africa’s modern convention and exhibition facility. TNHCC is poised to show strong growth in the convention business, and improvements in operating efficiencies. The Number of International medical conferences hosted at the Centre has grown significantly from 1 in 2017 to hosting 5 international conferences in 2019. The Convention centre has also placed several international bids for conferences in the coming years. It is our pleasure to announce that Nairobi, The Capital city of Kenya is likely to host The World Cancer Leaders Summit 2021 after The Nairobi Hospital Convention Centre placed a bid to host The Summit in 2021 in partnership with Kenya Network of Cancer Organizations among several other bids which have been placed with different medical associations. Feisal Lasker is a Meetings and Conventions Consultant, currently working as the Convention Centre Manager at The Nairobi Hospital Convention Centre. You can commune with him via email at: Feisallasker@gmail.com