what is the difference between holding a meeting at a hotel and holding a meeting at a conference center?
If you hold a meeting at a hotel, anyone can stay at the hotel. If you hold it at a conference center, only those involved with a conference being held there can stay there. Also, there is the implication (sometimes true, sometimes not) that a conference center is nicer than a hotel and better set up to handle conferences. That is why now many hotels call themselves hotel and conference center. To let people know they are both. Also, hotels are often set up to handle things more like receptions, and conference centers lean more towards business users. So you might go to a hotel for a wedding reception or prom, where you would go to a conference center for a business conference or meeting. And finally, some conference centers do not have overnight accommodations and are just for meetings, not for sleeping.
