Durban ICC

General information

The multi-award winning, Durban ICC Convention Complex is situated in the heart of South Africa’s premier tourist city Durban. It incorporates South Africa’s first purpose built convention centre, an indoor arena and an exhibition centre.
The complex is strategically located in Durban’s central business district, just minutes from hotels and beaches and approximately 35 minutes from the King Shaka International Airport.

The Durban ICC is purpose-built, fully air-conditioned and comprises six convention halls that are interlinked, but separate. Halls 1-3 are classic convention and meetings spaces whilst halls 4-6 double as convention and meetings spaces and as the flat floor space for the ICC Arena, the leading indoor sports and entertainment venue in Durban which accommodates up to 10 000 spectators.
The ICC Arena has full technical capacity for live broadcasts as well as house lighting suitable for TV production filming. The Centre is fully wi-fi enabled and there are two on-site generators which can fully power the centre in the event of power disruptions.

Operable walls allow for venue flexibility, catering for plenary seating of up to 12 300 delegates and raked seating for 3 880 delegates. The 6 halls can be opened up to form one large venue of 9 250m² of flat floor column free space and there are three outdoor courtyard venues of over 1 000m². In addition the facility boasts up to 25 meeting rooms ranging from 43m² to 396m².
In addition to the ICC Durban facilities the adjacent ICC Exhibition Centre offers up to 13 200m² of usable and flexible space across 2 halls. For large events there are other open spaces which can be used within the Durban ICC precinct where a variety of marquees and pavilions can be erected as required.
Within the Durban ICC there is a Business Complex which includes banking and foreign exchange facilities, medical services, stationery and postal services.