MILWAUKEE, WI (WTAQ) - The nation’s governors have chosen Wisconsin for their largest annual meeting two years from now.

Governor Scott Walker said Tuesday that the National Governors’ Association will meet August 2nd-4th of 2013 at the Frontier Airlines Center in downtown Milwaukee.

Walker said he was looking forward to hosting state government executives from around the country. He says they’ll focus on ideas to improve state governments, as well as the federal government’s partnership with the states.

The group Visit Milwaukee says the convention will attract about 1,200 people, who will stay for a total of 1,800 nights in hotel rooms. That’s small, compared to the 12,500 room nights for the annual sales conference put on by Milwaukee’s Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance. But the annual governors’ meeting normally attracts national publicity.

When this year’s meeting was held in Salt Lake City, the Washington Post was among the media interested in talking with Walker about his successful effort to limit collective bargaining by most public employee unions – as well as the state Senate recall elections which resulted from that measure.

Next year’s governors’ conference will be held in Williamsburg, Virginia.