Edinburgh is a thriving city, and is a massive tourist destination for both leisure and business travellers. With its mixture of unique historic and modern venues, and plentiful hotel accommodation, Scotland 's capital is a very popular destination for conferences and events. This month we look at a selection of the venues the city has to offer.

Royal College of Physicians
The College was established by Royal Charter in 1681 and amongst its facilities it boasts one of the most important historical medical libraries in the world. Its conference centre, built in 1986 to commemorate the centenary of the College, is located within the historic Queen Street premises, and conveniently situated in Edinburgh's city centre. The Conference Centre comprises an air-conditioned lecture theatre with 300 seats, all of which have fold-away writing tablets and full viewing capability to the stage and projection area.

The college has four rooms for meetings or workshop groups ranging in capacity from 15 to 35 theatre style, and 10 to 25 board room style. It also boasts the Cullen and Davidson Rooms, designed by Robert Adam and restored to their original style and condition. The rooms can host 24 and nine people respectively, for dinner. The Duncan Room is suitable for meetings and working lunches or suppers for up to 18 people and has video and overhead projection facilities.

Built in 1865 and upgraded in 1994, the Great Hall, with its impressive columns and ornate friezes, offers a splendid setting for a variety of events. It will banquet up to 200 guests or accommodate 250 at a reception, depending on which room the pre-dinner drinks reception is held in.

Murrayfield Stadium Conference Centre
Murrayfield is the home of Scottish rugby. It has three conference suites, 16 tailor made suites for 10-80 delegates and 10 Hospitality Boxes, which are ideal for smaller meetings, all overlooking the hallowed turf.

For larger functions the West Stand accommodates up to 1,200 for dinner, and the Thistle and Presidents Suites take 650 conference delegates each and over 1,000 when combined.

The stadium also has the advantage of being a five minute taxi ride from Haymarket train station and fifteen minutes from Waverly, Edinburgh 's main train station.

The Corn Exchange
The Edinburgh Corn Exchange is situated approximately two miles to the south west of Edinburgh city centre, within the moat area of the capital.

The Corn Exchange can cater for all numbers of delegates from 50 up to 1500 for a theatre style conference, and up to 1,000 people for a sit-down banquet. A wide range of caterers are available. Easy, fast access to each table is made possible by the large number of entry points to the main hall, combined with four bars and eager staff to make sure you will not be kept waiting for your meal or drinks!

The Corn Exchange is flexible to client needs and can adapt to suit any event. If you need to book entertainment, the experienced staff can source contacts from both the live music industry and local entertainment suppliers. The site and layout of the venue means you can have different types of entertainment happening all around the venue at the same time.

Edinburgh Conference Centre
Part of the Heriot-Watt University (founded in 1966), the Edinburgh Conference Centre is, as the name suggests, a purpose built conference centre. It can provide facilities for board room seating from between 20 and 80 people, theatre style seating from between 30 and 360 and U shape capacity for 22 to 72 people.

It has four rooms in the James Watt Centre 1 and two rooms in the James Watt Centre 2 - including the main hall and five supplementary meeting rooms. The James Watt Centre 1 also boasts an auditorium of tiered seating for 620 people.

The venue can also cater for dinner dances, dinners, and receptions ranging from 100 to 700 people.

Despite this being an academic venue, the facilities are available all year round but are obviously subject to availability.