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The first purpose of this study was to examine the importance of 6 hotels' convention selection attributes from the international meeting planners and the image similarity of hotel convention site. 6 hotels were selected because they were known as famous convention sites. The second purpose of this study was to examine attribute recognition and preference of hotel convention site based on the socio-demographic variables of the international meeting planners. Overall, four important suggestions were revealed from the results of this study. First, the importance analysis performed by mean value suggested that the attributes of hotel convention space, accommodation, and facility were the most important attributes, which is deeply related to the facilities of hotel convention. Second, considering image similarity, three were in the similar group out of 6 hotels' convention sites. Third, SS hotel was the most competitive in the attribute of hotel convention facility, SL hotel was the most competitive in the attribute of hotel accessibility and environment. Fourth, considering preference of hotel convention site based on socio-demographic variables, SS hotel was the most preferred, followed by JK hotel, SH hotel, JS hotel, SW hotel, and SL hotel that such rankings are the same as the number of meetings held in previous year.