Charlottetown
Welcome to Cvent's MICE Guide to Prince Edward Island, a PEI guide for MICE professionals. Named the top island in the continental U.S. and Canada on Travel + Leisure's 2013 World's Best list, the idyllic Prince Edward Island is one of four Atlantic provinces on Canada's east coast. As the country's smallest and greenest province, the crescent-shaped Prince Edwards Island is rich in history, agriculture, beauty and tourism - and meeting travel possibilities, as it's home to 200,000 square feet of meeting and event space province-wide. The Island's five touring regions, two cities and seven towns, together offer a variety of unique venues, more than 2,000 hotel rooms and a bounty of farm to table restaurants that showcase Prince Edward Island's fresh seafood and produce – not to mention a beautiful green landscape that served as the inspiration for the 1908 classic novel Anne of Green Gables. In fact, Prince Edward Island serves as the birthplace of the Confederation; it's here that in 1864 the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec met in the present capital of Charlottetown to form the new nation of Canada. During 2014, Princ…