San Francisco Travel Launches ‘SFMeetCulture’

San Francisco Travel has launched a new initiative called SFMeetCulture, designed to connect meeting planners more easily with San Francisco’s most historically significant art and culture venues. This was developed to showcase the close geography and flexible capacity of the most relevant venues within the 49 square miles of the city.

“Our focus on bringing more meetings and events into San Francisco’s cultural and historic venues is a natural,” said Joe D’Alessandro, president and CEO of San Francisco Travel. “Our museums, galleries, performance spaces, architecture and landmark sites are a major part of what makes San Francisco such a unique and irresistible destination. These venues provide meeting attendees with unique, personalized and local experiences that no other city can offer — distinctively San Franciscan and immersive experiences in a rich environment.”

For the planner, these venues offer the high service level that comes from facilities that are already in the business of providing an outstanding guest experience every day. And they enable planners to fulfill objectives and corporate programs such as supporting non-profit museums or partnering with sustainability-minded organizations.

“San Francisco’s culture and museum attractions are an important aspect of the overall event and city experience for our attendees. It is one more great reason we plan meetings in San Francisco,” said Dave Weil, CAE, vice president of event services with SmithBucklin and a member of San Francisco Travel’s Customer Advisory Council.

SFMeetCulture has three components designed to make the meeting planner’s job easier.

1. The first component is the expansion of the robust online search tool on San Francisco Travel’s website. On the Venue Search page, http://portal.sanfrancisco.travel/venues, the planner now has the option of viewing Art/Cultural Venues in addition to the Hotels, Restaurants and Special Event Venues.
2. A second SFMeetCulture component is a new downloadable online map showing the proximity of several of San Francisco’s most in-demand hotels to culturally and historically significant venues in the heart of the city, starting with the SOMA and Union Square areas. The maps also provide scale to San Francisco’s 49 square miles of landmarks and icons located in neighborhoods such as Fisherman’s Wharf, Bay Bridge, the Embarcadero, etc.
3. The third part of SFMeetCulture is a set of seven articles — a direct response to the most sought-after questions from meeting planners — that introduce meeting planners to event venues that offer authentic San Francisco spirit and enrichment as well as state of the art settings and technology.

Discover San Francisco History at Seven Iconic and Architecturally Significant Venues

San Francisco, a city that celebrates its rich culture and inspires an innate spirit of innovation, is home to more than 50 visually and historically stunning venues. From striking modern day galleries to history-steeped auditoriums, this collection of venues offers meeting planners a century of architectural significance.

Eight San Francisco Venues with a View: Water and Bridges

These eight fascinating venues provide artistic and historic settings in which to meet, while featuring one-of-a-kind views of the city and its iconic waterways. Guests will know without a doubt that they have arrived in the City by the Bay.

Nine San Francisco Venues with a View: Balconies, Terraces and Gardens

Everyone loves a venue with a view, especially in a beautiful city like San Francisco. Leading venues featuring balconies, terraces and gardens are the types of spaces that elevate an event above the ordinary. Here are nine to consider when hosting an unforgettable event.

10 San Francisco Arts and Meeting Venues with Intimate Theaters

In San Francisco, certain smaller venues offer an intimate experience for attendees through state-of-the-art theaters, advanced film screening capabilities and grand auditoriums. Situated in the cultural hotspots of beautiful San Francisco, this guide highlights the 10 best San Francisco venues that seat 300 people or fewer.

10 San Francisco Arts and Meeting Venues with Large Theaters

San Francisco has an abundance of historic theatres, performance venues and grand stages, both old and new. Whether the purpose is to present a new product or idea, honor important leaders or screen a film, planners can find the perfect venue in this iconic city. This guide presents some of the most unforgettable stages the city has to offer.

San Francisco Meeting Venues with an Eye for Preserving the Past and Protecting the Future

San Francisco boasts a variety of venues anchored in cultural legacy yet heavily invested in the promise of tomorrow. These historical sites and institutions have been built, renovated and maintained on strong ecological principles with an aesthetic eye toward sustaining and supporting the landscapes and ecosystems that make the area so unforgettable.

Nine Surprising, Inspiring Meeting Venues within One Block of Moscone Center

This guide presents nine unique and culturally-stimulating venues just a block from The Moscone Center— the largest convention and exhibition center in all of San Francisco and home to the 23rd edition of the NFL Experience, Salesforce’s four-day Dreamforce conference and the likes of Oracle and Facebook.

Together, the SFMeetCulture initiative provides a robust and seamless platform to handle the “heavy lifting” for meeting planners and allows them to do their jobs better and with more ease.

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