Convention & Event Services
The award-winning Convention Services team at GoProvidence offers a comprehensive menu of services designed to streamline and enhance the meeting planning experience.
Now that you've decided to host your meeting, sporting event or convention in the Providence Warwick area, you’ll be paired with a dedicated services manager who will collaborate with you to design a custom plan tailored to your goals. We’re here to make you shine and create an engaging, seamless experience where your attendees can connect and make the most of their time here.
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Consider us an extension of your staff. We offer planning and on-site assistance, including:
- Acting as a liaison between meeting planners and hotels, event venues and suppliers
- Assisting with dine-around coordination
- Community convention alerts
- Complimentary collateral at registration desk
- Connections to our community experts
- Coordinating planning meetings throughout the city
- Custom collateral, including dining sheets and maps
- Digital toolbox
- Entertainment suggestions for off-site events
- Economic Impact calculations of your meeting
- "Know Before You Go" information
- Housing services (fee applicable)
- Local discount guide
- Overnight Room Demand Analyzer data (ORDA)
- Post-con packets
- Pre- and post-tour suggestions
- Recommendations for spouse or youth activities
- Referrals – with more than 300 partners, let us connect you to our community
- Serving as a guide to area off-site venues and meeting facilities
- Week-over-week hotel tracking
- Welcome banners for city-wide meetings
- And much more …
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Your success is our success. We offer a complete portfolio of tools and programs designed to boost attendance. These include:
- A brief promotional video about Providence/Warwick
- Online access to our hi-res photo library
- Pre-promotion materials or -in-person for qualifying groups
- Printed collateral about Providence/Warwick
- Promotional text about Providence/Warwick
- Public relations assistance in reaching local media
- Welcome letter/appearance from government officials
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Rhode Island’s wealth of educational and innovative resources, including numerous colleges and universities, a thriving health care industry, and notable corporate headquarters, makes it a natural home to a well-rounded array of potential speakers and experts.
Our team is deeply connected within the local professional community. As you move through the planning process, we can help identify and facilitate introductions to individuals who align with your meeting's objectives and goals.
Simply put, we know a guy.
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Erin Degulis Senior Director of Convention & Visitor Services
Carley Foto Convention Services Manager
Evan Connor, Jr. Convention Services Coordinator
Phyllis Blanchette Visitor Services Manager