About Airport Cities Conference & Exhibition
Airport Cities is the annual event  for airport and airline CEO’s, economic development agencies, real-estate developers, architects and planners and all other businesses benefiting from proximity to runway and taking citizenship in the Airport City/Aerotropolis. Runnning for over a decade ACE has grown into a must attend conference for the aviation world.

About Airport Cities
Airports have become powerful engines of local economic development, attracting aviation-linked businesses of all types to their environs. Along with incorporating a wide variety of retail and consumer services into passenger terminals, many airports are developing their landside areas with hotels, conference and exhibition centres, office and shopping complexes, recreation facilities and logistics and free-trade zones.
Such commercial development is substantially and positively impacting the financial bottom line of airports.

It is also transforming them into airport cities as they become significant employment, shopping, business and leisure destinations in their own right.

Professor John D Kasarda,
Director, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, University of North Carolina