Philadelphia is prepared 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!
PHLCVB provides the following services and support:
Learn more about how the Pennsylvania Convention Center, other Philadelphia event venues and the PHLCVB are working together with GBAC.
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.
In 2019, 90% of the citywide conventions booked were repeat groups!
The Philadelphia region has more than 30,000 hotel rooms, with more than 13,500 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
HotelsUnique venues, outstanding service, and satisfied clients are key when creating memorable and effective events. Philadelphia has a variety of options to suit every size, need, taste and budget. Unexpected event venues from unmatched historic locations to iconic architectural structures and outdoor venues, you’ll find it in Philadelphia.
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.
TransportationThe 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.
The PHLCVB tapped leading population health experts to provide guidance to meeting planners on best practices for safe and healthy events. Resources include, interviews, webinars and podcasts.
ResourcesWhen 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.
PlanWhen 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.
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