COVID-19 pandemic has affected Manitoba businesses across a wide range of industries, one sector that has been most heavily hit is conventions and large events.Limits on gathering sizes, as well as travel restrictions, have reduced the number of conventions to such an extent that the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg has had to nix all 15 of its planned events between September and December.“Most of the convention business that’s being booked now is for future years,” the centre’s president and CEO, Drew Fisher, told 680 CJOB.“With the limitations on travel, it does make it very difficult to have a convention — and then gathering sizes that are being limited right across Canada, that absolutely has had an effect on the business being booked.