Built at a cost of US$7.5 million by the Lao World Group Company of prominent Thai businessman Peter Chan and opened in 2003, the Lao International Trade Exhibition and Convention Centre (Lao-ITECC) is a state-of-the-art exhibition and conference centre which offers an active arena for business communications and a showcase for business products from a wide range of key business sectors, including hotels, textiles, electronics and health. The main indoor exhibition hall measures 30,000 square metres, the second floor gallery 12,000 square metres and the convention room 3,000 squere metres; a further 20,000 square metres of space is available outdoors. Lao-ITECC also incorporates a supermarket, a bowling alley and a two-screen cinema, the only commercial cinema in the country: