The Convention and Meetings Sales & Service department at Visit Anchorage is passionate, dedicated and experienced. Several team members have worked with meetings in Anchorage for more than 20 years. Visit Anchorage’s convention sales team has won the Meetings & Conventions Magazine Gold Service Award 18 times, a testament to their professionalism, resourcefulness and dedication. They are seasoned, savvy and standing by to help meeting planners produce the best meeting they have had in years.
Testimonials
Don’t just take our word for it; Anchorage has garnered rave reviews from groups and organizations across the globe. Take a look at what people are saying about meetings held in Anchorage.
“From a financial perspective, our Anchorage meeting set a new record for profit! We were all quite surprised because we thought costs would be higher in Anchorage. We beat our previous record for meeting profits by nearly $40,000! Anchorage is clearly cost-competitive for large meetings … The beauty of Alaska combined with the modern hotel and convention facilities made our 2011 meeting truly memorable.”
Jeffrey C. Sventek
Executive Director, Aerospace Medical Association
“Normally, we have 1200-1400 attendees, but after the economic collapse, the society executive committee advised me to plan for 800, since the economy was so bad, and Anchorage was so far from anywhere. We had 1480 registrants, including over six hundred students. Over two thousand papers were submitted. We exceeded our room block at both conference hotels, and we filled both convention centers.”
Wesley Snyder, Ph.D.
2010 General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
“In 2009, postmasters lost all convention leave and had to use personal vacation time to attend the convention. We did not know how Alaska would be received by our members and how our attendance would be affected. But we are pleased to say that we had over 1360 registered delegates, along with family members and associates.
Anchorage was a blast and very well received by our membership. They loved the outdoor activities and the tours. Everything from glacier cruises to train trips into Denali National park, there was something for everyone no matter how much or little time they had to explore Alaska.”
Gerri Swarm
Executive Assistant, National Association of Postmasters
“Our June, 2004 conference in Anchorage was the most successful annual meeting in the 40 year history of this event … Our concerns over the distance and cost of a conference in Alaska proved to be unfounded as we set an attendance record with more than 1,100 participants. We also attracted our largest number of exhibitors ever and obtained record-high sponsorship funding to support the conference. Financially, 2004 was by far our best conference ever.”
Gerard M. Farrell
Executive Director, Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S. Public Health Service
“The attendance record set by the Anchorage meeting will not be broken anytime soon.”
Larry Peltz
Finance Chairman, 2005 American Fisheries Society
