This page is created to serve as a helpful resource to those that will be travelling into Calgary to attend DEFSEC West.  If you have any related inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail at info@defsecwest.ca.

Travelling into Downtown Calgary:

• Locations of where you can park downtown in Calgary so you are near the venue (the Calgary TELUS Convention Centre)
• Options on how to travel from the Calgary Airport into the downtown core

• For entry rules travelling into Canada…
  https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/visit-canada/eta.html
   
• As well, if you are travelling from a country that requires a travel visa to enter Canada…
  Please contact us as soon as possible by e-mail at registration@defsecwest.ca in order to request a confirmation letter for our event to send to IRCC (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada). The Canadian Government’s processing time for travel visa applications can vary and you are encouraged to apply as early as possible.

• This includes anything related to your booth that needs to be shipped from outside of Canada. The rules and more importantly the process for “importing” items into Canada have recently changed (i.e. introduction of CBSA Assessment and Revenue Management [CARM], and they tend to make things slower and more complicated in our experience to date. Please consult the detailed notes provided in the Show Manual that you will be sent. If you have not received it, please e-mail john@defsecwest.ca to request a PDF copy.