As a full-service destination marketing organization, Travel Portland offers a staff of experts and a myriad of services to guarantee a successful meeting or event once you have booked your meeting with our sales department. Most convention services are available on a complimentary basis.

Convention planning
Publicity services
Attendance promotion toolkit
Directory of suppliers

We would love to hear from you. Send us an e-mail at convservices@travelportland.com, call us at 1.800.962.3700 or submit this request form.

Convention Planning

• Liaison between meeting planner and hotels, event venues and suppliers
• Coordination of site inspections
• Suggestions for entertainment and off-site event facilities
• Suggestions for spouse/youth/children's activities
• Suggestions for pre- and post-convention tours and activities
• Guide to Portland-area banquet and meeting facilities
• Computerized housing service. (Housing-related services include processing delegate housing forms, tracking hotel block pick up and offering planners ongoing reports and room listings.)

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Publicity Services

• Sample articles for publications/newsletters
• Local media list
• Publicity Handbook

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Attendance Promotion Toolkit

For information about any of these services, send us e-mail at convservices@travelportland.com or call us at 800.962.3700. All of these services are available on a complimentary basis, unless otherwise noted.

Images

• Rights-free images are available
• For access to a more extensive image library, e-mail us at convservices@travelportland.com.

Maps

• Check out our interactive hotel map, which you can customize to show your hotel block. Print it, or e-mail it others. It’s easy!
• Downtown walking maps are available. For details, e-mail us at convservices@travelportland.com.

Online services

• A customizable pre-conference e-newsletter (click here to see a sample) that you can send to your delegates. If you’d like us to create one for your group, e-mail us at convservices@travelportland.com.
• Online housing reservation for delegates.
• Complimentary link from your website to Travel Portland's. Attention webmaster: To link your page to travelportland.com, simply place the graphic (see below for downloading instructions) on your page and set your html link to:
  a href="http://www.travelportland.com", and your target to: TARGET="_blank".

Travel Portland Logo

• For print: Click here to download, and "Save As" to your desktop. (This image is 184K in eps format, zipped.)
• Web format: Click here to download, and "Save As" to your desktop. (This image is 792w by 167h, 72 ppi and 15K.)

Other promotional tools

(For details, e-mail us at convservices@travelportland.com.)

• Shop Portland coupon books for delegates. Savings on shopping (tax-free!), dining and more.
• Visitor guides and promotional brochures
• Video presentations
• Lapel roses for your attendees (nominal fees apply)
• Welcome letters from the governor and mayor

Helpful links

City of Portland
Oregon Convention Center
Oregon Tourism Commission
Port of Portland
Portland International Airport
Portland Rose Festival
Portland Streetcar
State of Oregon
TriMet (MAX light rail, buses and Portland Streetcar)

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Portland Perks
Special Savings for Delegates

In Portland, shopping is always tax-free. Your delegates can save even more with our popular Portland Perks voucher book, which includes discounts on shopping, dining and more. The program is available on a complementary basis to all organizations that have confirmed Portland for a future convention. For details — or to order copies for your delegates — send us an e-mail at convservices@travelportland.com or call us toll-free at 1.800.962.3700.