World Trade Centers Association
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- This article is about world trade centers across the globe. For the New York World Trade center, see World Trade Center. For other uses, see World Trade Center (disambiguation)
World trade centers or world trade centres (usually abbreviated WTC) arose in the United States and Japan in the 1970s, spearheaded by New York City's World Trade Center.
A world trade center puts together under one roof all the services associated with global commerce, a kind of supermarket or shopping mall providing networking access between corporations and governments. "A World Trade Center in any city is a business shopping center, complementing and supporting the existing services of private and government agencies", explains World Trade Center Association (WTCA) President, Guy F. Tozzoli.
In foreign languages, the "WTC" expression is sometimes mistranslated as the world's "center of the trade," especially in relation to the New York City WTC.[citation needed]
The World Trade Centers Association founded in 1970 and based in New York City, is an organization of nearly 300 world trade centers in almost 100 countries. The WTCA is an unofficial umbrella trade association that unites corporations and government agencies in international trade.
List of Prominent World Trade Centers
Buildings around the world known by this title include the following:
- Amsterdam - World Trade Center Amsterdam Holland, Zuidas area
- Athens - World Trade Center Athens , Greece
- Baltimore, Maryland - Baltimore World Trade Center
- Bangkok - World Trade Center Bangkok, now renamed Central World Plaza
- Barcelona - World Trade Center Barcelona
- Barranquilla - Wolrd Trade Center
- Beijing - International Trade Centre in Guomao
- Belgrade - World Trade Center
- Bogotá - World Trade Center
- Boston - Boston World Trade Center; see also World Trade Center (MBTA station)
- Brussel - World Trade Center
- Buffalo, New York - Now Closed
- Bucharest, Romania - Bucharest World Trade Center
- Budapest, Hungary - Budapest Congress & World Trade Center
- Cairo - World Trade Center Cairo
- Cologne - World Trade Center Koeln
- Colombo - World Trade Center Colombo
- Canada - Canada Export Centre
- Dallas - World Trade Center Dallas
- Denver - World Trade Center Denver
- Dresden - World Trade Center Dresden
- Dubai - Dubai World Trade Centre
- Durham - World Trade Center North Carolina
- Edmonton - Edmonton World Trade Centre
- Eindhoven - World Trade Centre Eindhoven
- Gothenburg - World Trade Center Göteborg
- Guadalajara - World Trade Center Guadalajara
- Guayaquil - Guayaquil World Trade Center
- Halifax - World Trade and Convention Centre
- Helsinki - World Trade Center Helsinki
- Hong Kong - World Trade Centre
- Hull and Humber - World Trade Centre Hull and Humber
- Istanbul - World Trade Center Istanbul
- Jakarta - World Trade Center Jakarta
- Johannesburg - World Trade Center Johannesburg
- Kuala Lumpur - Putra World Trade Centre
- Ljubljana - World Trade Centre (Ljubljana) - Slovenia
- Lagos - World Trade Center Lagos
- London - World Trade Centre (London)
- Los Angeles - World Trade Center Los Angeles
- Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California
- Loudoun County, Virginia - World Trade Center Dulles Airport (Future, Pending Zoning Approval)
- Luanda - World Trade Center Luanda
- Macau - World Trade Center Macau
- Manila - World Trade Center Roxas Boulevard, Manila, Philippines
- Melbourne - World Trade Centre
- Mexico City - World Trade Center México
- Milton Keynes - There is a WTC complex in a new high rise developement called The Hub:MK
- Montevideo - World Trade Center Montevideo
- Montreal - World Trade Centre Montreal
- Moscow - World Trade Center Moscow (Центр международной торговли)
- Mumbai - World Trade Center Mumbai
- New Orleans - World Trade Center New Orleans
- New York - New York City World Trade Center, destroyed in September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
- Norfolk, Virginia - World Trade Center-Norfolk
- Orlando, Florida - World Trade Center Orlando
- Osaka - Osaka World Trade Center Building
- Ottawa - World Trade Centre
- Panama - Word Trade Center Panama
- Paris - World Trade Center Paris
- Pescara - World Trade Center Pescara
- Portland, Oregon - World Trade Center (Portland)
- Poznań - World Trade Center Poznań
- Rotterdam - Beurs World Trade Center Rotterdam (WTC Rotterdam)
- Santiago - World Trade Center Santiago
- Saint Paul, Minnesota - Minnesota World Trade Center
- San Salvador - World Trade Center San Salvador
- São Paulo - World Trade Center São Paulo
- Seoul -- World Trade Center Seoul
- Seville - World Trade Center Sevilla
- Shanghai - World Trade Center Shanghai
- Singapore - World Trade Center Singapore, now renamed HarbourFront Centre
- Stockholm - World Trade Center Stockholm
- Taipei - Taipei World Trade Center
- Tallinn - World Trade Center Tallinn
- Tokyo - World Trade Center Tokyo
- Tripoli - World Trade Center Tripoli
- Valencia, Venezuela World Trade Center Valencia (Under Construction)
- Vancouver - World Trade Center Vancouver
- Veracruz - World Trade Center Veracruz
- Willemstad, Curaçao - World Trade Center Curaçao
- Wilson, North Carolina - World Trade Center Wilson
- Zürich - World Trade Center Zurich