More than a dozen organizations and companies representing thousands of members and potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue have passed over the District for their upcoming conventions, citing the lack of a hotel at the Washington Convention Center, convention officials said Monday.

“The perception of our great city by customers is that we are not really positioned to host the meetings that we aggressively purse,” Elliott Ferguson II, senior vice president with the D.C. Convention and Tourism Corp., told the D.C. Council’s economic development committee, headed by Council Member Kwame Brown.