Visit Baltimore Meeting & Event Planning Guide Winter/Spring 2020 - Sustainability Issue | Page 54

Welcome Program Attendees experience charming hospitality and a friendly welcome to our community with our Convention Welcome Program. Welcome Signs* Your attendees will be greeted with welcome signs: • At the arrivals desk and baggage claim of Baltimore/ Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport • • At Penn Station (40-foot-long sign with LED screen) In the windows of Visit Baltimore member businesses throughout the convention campus • On the fl at-screen monitors at the Inner Harbor Visitor Center In addition: • Window clings are placed along the exterior of the Convention Center, around the main entrances. • Visit Baltimore reserves up to 11 streetlight poles for your signs—all are along Pratt Street, in front of the Convention Center. *Based on room night thresholds Hotel Staff Buttons Front-of-house staff will wear a button with your logo as an extra-friendly welcome to Baltimore. “Show Your Badge” Discount Program Meeting professionals who proudly display their badge receive special savings ranging from transportation services and museums to restaurants and shops. “Welcome to Baltimore” Program Ad Provide your services manager with the print specifi cation for an ad in your program and we will send you a collected, print-ready fi le. Convention Resume The Convention Resume provides pertinent information Prime Waterfront Events about your citywide group to Baltimore’s hospitality community, ensuring that everyone is ready to greet and accommodate attendees. CTA Program The Certifi ed Tourism Ambassador™ (CTA) program gives 52 hospitality employees the resources they need to provide friendly and helpful advice, recommendations or directions to visitors. B A LT I M O R E . O R G The Baltimore Visitor Center is available for evening event rentals at a highly competitive fee, a portion of which benefi ts the Visit Baltimore Education & Training Foundation. The Visitor Center is one of few event spaces in the Inner Harbor with beautiful, unobstructed views of the waterfront. Contact foundation@ baltimore.org to begin planning your event.