Tourisme vert à Montréal

4. Environmentally responsible business and convention tourism
4.2. Montréal's reputation
• Meet Green called Montréal one of the best places to organize green meetings.
(www.bestplacestomeetgreen.com/destinations/)
• The Sustainable Meetings Conference organized by the Green Meeting Industry Council was held in
Montréal from April 22 to 25, 2012.
Montréal Ecocity 2011
• From August 22 to 26, 2011 Montréal hosted the Ecocity World Summit.
• More than 1,500 people took part in the event, held at the Montréal convention centre.
• Ecocity 2011 was the ninth in a series of international conventions launched in 1990 by Richard Register of
Ecocity Builders.
• Six main themes:
– 1) Climate Change and the Ecocity;
– 2) Ecomobility, Urban Planning, Public Space;
– 3) Governance and Democracy in the Ecocity;
– 4) Economics of the Ecocity;
– 5) Health and the Built Environment;
– 6) Biodiversity and Urban Agriculture.
• Special activities were also organized around the theme of "Arts, culture and youth engagement".
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