>> Good morning.
I'm Bill Mifflin, the executive director of Philadelphia Hospitality.
We are a 502(c)(3) non-profit.
We've been in existence here in Philadelphia for 32 years, and basically we,
our mission is to promote Philadelphia
as a world-class destination, which, quite frankly, it is.
And our business model is based around inviting small groups of people,
usually up to about thirty, forty, in that number, and introduce them to sort
of the private side of Philadelphia.
We do that for cultural organizations, professional organizations,
and corporate organizations, and sometimes in a smaller group, just a family of four or six,
whatever, who may be in Philadelphia for a long weekend or perhaps longer.
We work with the Visitors and Convention Bureau.
We work with the Chamber of Commerce.
We work with GPTMC, and basically other non-profit organizations who are kind
of in the same mission focused as we are,
which is promoting Philadelphia as a world-class destination.
It's really a sort of a close intimate relationship that we have with our guests.
So we don't just put them on a bus and take them to Longwood Gardens or something like that.
You know, we have experienced guides, and we put them in very nice hotels
or the Union League of Philadelphia.
We have access to a lot of private clubs, which is what I meant to say.
Was that we have a probably fifty private homes that we take people
to during their stay here in Philadelphia.
Well, there's a lot of metrics out there, whether it's heads and beds from hotels
or number of visitors to a particular attraction, the zoo, the art museum,
Independence Hall, etc. So, you know, you can certainly follow that.
We're a little different.
We're kind of a niche organization where we provide an experience.
We don't really focus so much on the numbers as to what people, if we have return customers.
I'm proud to say that when they fill out an evaluation,
we get really the highest marks possible.