The Moment Is Now
Choose Philadelphia to host your first meetings or events, and celebrate the return to meeting in person at one of our unique venues ready to serve groups from 50 to 3,000. With the convenience of an accessible destination, that gives your attendees the chance to reconnect in person, you’ll spark connections and ensure a memorable experience.
It’s time to get back to doing what we do best.
Our team of destination experts are ready to help plan your next event. From hybrid to in-person, our team can provide up-to-date information and support to ensure your event is a success! Look to the experts to provide the following services and support:
- Provide updates on the most recent COVID information and meeting guidelines.
- Access to industry experts to serve as speakers and panelists to enhance your event programming.
- Introduce you to potential partners, sponsors, and industry networks to help increase and boost attendance.
- Guide you in selecting an unexpected venue or securing the right hotel – creating an authentic Philadelphia experience.
Meet in Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Committed to ensuring a positive experience for planners and attendees. Philadelphia’s work rules inside the Convention Center have dramatically improved over the last five years. With ASM Global managing the facility and a new Customer Satisfaction Agreement, we have seen an improvement in customers’ intent to return.
Guest Room photo courtesy of the Four Points by Sheraton Philadelphia Center City
Room To Stay
The Philadelphia area has more than 42,000 hotel rooms, with more than 14,400+ in Center City and in walking distance of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Philadelphia is ready for the return of in-person meetings and events and has been actively preparing with new hotel openings and hotel renovations being completed.
Hotels
Franklin Square Outdoor Event photo by J Fusco for Historic Philadelphia
Find Your Perfect Event or Meeting Space
New hotels, unexpected venues and outstanding service are key when creating memorable and effective events. Philadelphia has a variety of options to suit every size, need, taste and budget. From unmatched historic locations to iconic architectural structures to outdoor venues, you’ll find it in Philadelphia.
Venues & Meeting Spaces
Photo courtesy of Philadelphia International Airport
Easy To Get To and Get Around
Philadelphia’s central location, just ninety miles from New York City and 135 miles from Washington, D.C., makes it extremely easy to access by plane, train or car. Once you are here, Philadelphia offers everything you will find in a major metropolitan city, with the ease of a small town. Ranked the 4th most walkable city in the nation, visitors can easily explore multiple neighborhoods, attractions, and restaurants.
TransportationPhl Health Pledge: a return to travel and safe meetings
The PHL Health Pledge is an initiative that aims to ensure a safe return to travel and safe meetings by aligning expertise and guidance to establish best practices for reopening.
PHL Health Advisor Resources
The PHLCVB tapped leading population health expert, Dr. David Nash, as our Chief Health Advisor. Dr. Nash provides guidance to meeting planners on best practices for safe and healthy events and works closely with the PHL Health Advisors, a 19-person medical advisory task force.
Health & Safety AdvicePhiladelphia Met the Moment
This past April, Philadelphia successfully hosted NEQ – its first citywide event in over a year–at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Learn HowPlan Your Meeting with Confidence
When you and your attendees are ready to meet again, do so with confidence knowing that many of Philadelphia’s venues, hotels, caterers, and other event services companies have reimagined their capabilities and instituted new guidelines in order to accommodate safe, socially distant in-person events and hybrid meetings.
PlanAttendee Experiences
Dynamic Space Centrally Located in America's Birthplace
When you hold a meeting, convention or trade show in Philadelphia, you are not just investing in a building or floor space, you are investing in an experience.
Attendee ExperiencesCommunity Engagement Opportunities
The PHLCVB actively builds community relationships between meeting planners, convention leaders and local groups who share a culture and ideals and can help design packages and programs that align your meeting’s values with a local organization or specific cause.
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