In partnership with Experient (formerly known as I.T.S), www.experient-inc.com, the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau offers a host of delegate housing services designed to make a meeting planner’s life easier. Attendees under our system have:
Meeting planners receive personal service from a dedicated housing professional working with them and also includes:
The Bureau will act as your housing agent provided you are using two or more hotels utilizing a minimum of 1500 rooms peak night. Should your group not qualify for Bureau housing, we can provide names of member organizations who offer housing services for smaller groups. Please contact convention-services@sfcvb.org.
Advanced Reservation Systems, Inc. (ARES) has partnered with the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau to help meeting planners capture last minute hotel reservations. The post cut off activity gives the full picture of the total pickup of groups and tracks those attendees who make their reservations after the cut off date. ARES has the ability to work with any housing company or third party and there are no limitations to the size of groups, regardless if they use single or multiple properties.
How it works:
At cut off or when an official block is sold out, the meeting planner will be provided with a toll free number and/or a link to the official San Francisco CVB housing website and assigned a group code. When the attendees call or login, they are asked which convention they will be attending. A housing reservation is made under the attendee's name and the reservation is tracked under the group code.
After the conference, an attendee list and detailed room pickup by hotel, day by day is provided to the meeting planner.
ARES Housing Service - What are the benefits?
For more information, please contact convention-services@sfcvb.org.