Ann Tok, Tourism Communications Manager, and Greg Evans, Account Director UK & Ireland, Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau, visited Dublin recently to host lunch at Fade Street Social for travel media.
The PHLCVB currently has 275 meetings and conventions booked for the calendar year 1st January – 31st December 2016. Those meetings and conventions will consume 552,269 total room nights and generate more than $730 million in economic impact for Philadelphia.
Positive feedback from meeting planners, convention attendees and exhibitors who met at the Pennsylvania Convention Center last year contributed to record convention bookings in 2015.
Philadelphia Specialists
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