Highlights of your group's personalized program could include the following: Behind the scenes tours, special curatorial tours Entrée to private homes for lunch or afternoon tea Entrée to private gardens Entrée to private clubs for receptions, lunch and dinner Receptions in well respected art and antique galleries All arrangements, reservations and admissions at chosen sites and cultural performances Early-morning tours before the doors open to the public Speakers Special gifts related to the tour Hotel and meal arrangements Guide and coach services All gratuities and taxes

Since 1982, we have welcomed over 500 cultural, corporate and professional groups to Philadelphia and its countryside. Our innovative programs, specially designed to suit the interests of our clients, include behind-the-scenes tours of our world-renowned cultural and historic treasures and personal visits with distinguished Philadelphians. The hallmark of a Philadelphia Hospitality program is entrée to private Philadelphia.

Explore the Region

Philadelphia is an exhilarating city overflowing with cultural and historic treasures and is a home not only to world class museums like the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Barnes Foundation, but also to beautiful gardens like Longwood Gardens and the Morris Arboretum as well as America's most historic sites - Independence National Historical Park, Valley Forge and Germantown.

Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts, the region's premier performing arts district with more than 20 major educational and performing arts facilitates, offers an exciting mix of cultural experiences ranging from ballet, opera, and orchestra performances, to drama, musical theater and jazz.

The centerpiece of the Avenue, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, has been proclaimed by the Travel Channel as one of the "Modern Seven Wonders of the World" for its acoustics and award-winning design.

Centrally located, Philadelphia is just a short drive from the lush countryside of Bucks County and it's many museums; the Brandywine Valley and the Pennsylvania Dutch Country in Lancaster County.

Special Interest Travel:

Antiques
Extraordinary collections include those at Winterthur, the legendary mansion of Henry Francis du Pont, as well as the Stephen Girard Collection at Girard College, and the world-renowned Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Architecture
Buildings representing 300 years of architecture range from the elegant colonial-era Independence Hall to the dazzling new post-modern Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. The Fairmount Park Houses are considered to be outstanding examples of 18th and early 19th century American domestic architecture.

Gardens
Spectacular outdoor spaces include Bartram's Garden (the nation's oldest botanical garden), the Morris Arboretum, and the 1,050 acre-Longwood Gardens. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Philadelphia Flower Show, held annually in March, is the largest indoor flower show in the world.

History
America's "most historic square mile" is located right here at Independence National Historical Park. Numerous important historic sites from pre-revolutionary times through the 19th century can be found in Philadelphia and at Valley Forge, the Brandywine Valley and Germantown.

Libraries
The American Philosophical Society, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, The Free Library of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company and the Rosenbach Museum and Library are only a sampling of our region's important collections.

Museums and Galleries
World class art collections can be seen at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Barnes Foundation, the Brandywine River Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.