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SF Hospitality Expo - formerly May Fair - is the Bay Area's premiere tradeshow to connect your business with San Francisco's profitable meetings and visitors market. This annual member event puts your business face to face with meeting planners and other industry buyers and decision makers.
This year's SF Hospitality Expo offers more tools and resources than ever before to help your company connect with future business. As an important part of the meetings and visitor industry, there are many reasons to participate this year.
SF Hospitality Expo is the ideal tradeshow to showcase service specialties, introduce new management, or announce a new product or grand opening. Exhibiting helps you increase:
- Attraction & Cultural Institution ticket sales
- Hotel room occupancy
- Special Event Venue & Entertainer bookings
- Restaurant covers
- Transportation & Tour company sales
- Retail foot traffic
- Convention supplier industry contacts
In addition to SFCVB Members, we're inviting key San Francisco and Bay Area business organizations to expand your reach in San Francisco's number one industry:
- Bay Area Business Travel Association
- Bay Area convention and visitors bureaus
- Golden Gate Business Association
- Golden Gate Restaurant Association
- International Association for Exhibition Management
- International Special Events Society
- National Association of Catering Executives
- Northern California Concierge Association
- Northern California Chapter of Meeting Professionals International*
- Northern California Society of Association Executives*
- Professional Convention Management Association
- San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and other local chambers of commerce
* These organizations will present educational seminars to attract their members and offer exhibitors more educational opportunities.
- A 10-ft wide, 6-ft deep booth staffed by two members of your company Additional staff may register at $35 each in advance or $40 each on-site
- Two tickets to future Member Business Exchanges
- Bureau exhibitor briefing to help maximize your Expo participation.
Note: Service of alcohol by exhibitors is prohibited; exhibitors needing electricity or with booths exceeding 8 feet tall will be placed on the outside wall.
- Expanded invitation distribution to qualified business organizations
- Attendee list for post-event marketing
- Focused networking with the Bay Area's premiere audience
- Listings in the SF Hospitality Expo program
- Complimentary ad in the Program's member-to-member ad section (if registration is received by Dec. 31)
- Advertising in the SF Hospitality Expo program enables exhibitors to make special discounted offers* to event attendees and fellow exhibitors for only $75.
* Complimentary to exhibitors that sign up by Dec. 31,
2004. All submissions must be finalized by Feb. 25, 2005. Available
only to exhibiting companies.
SF Expo Fact
- Nearly 85% of 2004 exhibitors made contacts they expect will lead to figure business - and more than 25% reported making 20 or more contacts.
- More than 70 percent of 2004 attendees planned meetings or events at their workplace
- 80% of exhibitors were either satisfied or very satisfied with attendee traffic.
- The majority of exhibitors said they would exhibit again this year.
Donate a Silent Auction* item and:
- Drive more traffic to your booth.
- Gain more visibility
- Support hospitality management education
* Produced by the SFCVB Education & Research Foundation to benefit the hospitality management programs at the University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University.
Deadline is Friday, February 25, 2005 for inclusion in the SF Hospitality
Expo Program.
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