The Buffalo Niagara CVB announced a five-year strategic plan to draw more groups to the area.
The area has hosted a number of amateur sports competitions, architectural and historic groups and African-American organizations.
The plan includes community outreach, business and government networking and construction of a new, larger convention center.
“We're losing conventions to places like Erie, Pa., that's only because we don't have a big enough convention center to hold the bigger conventions,” said Jennifer Parker, who was recently-elected chairwoman of the CVB’s board of directors.
