Salt Lake City, UT, August 2012 - Press Release
Orchid Event Solutions (Orchid) was awarded a multi-year agreement from American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) to be the official Convention Housing Service provider for ASHP’s largest event’s: the Midyear Clinical Meeting and the Summer Meeting.
The Midyear Clinical Meeting is attended by more than 20,000 members and over 200 exhibitors from 86 countries. Combined these meetings represent close to 50,000 room nights booked annually and over $10 million dollars of room revenue for the destination's hoteliers.
“Orchid’s professionalism, integrity, and excellence have made them a valued partner of ASHP. Besides providing excellent housing management, Orchid understands the importance of maintaining quality relationships and providing personalized attention to our exhibitors and attendees. Orchid’s services are one key to the success and growth of our convention room blocks.”
Fran Lappin Byrnes
Director of Conference and Convention Planning, ASHP.
“Orchid is thrilled to continue our long term partnership for convention housing services with ASHP. Orchid has been the official convention housing service provide for ASHP’s Midyear Clinical Meeting and The Summer Meeting since 2008. We are dedicated to helping ASHP meet their event objectives. “
Tina Stark
Director of Sales, Orchid Event Solutions
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists:
ASHP is a national professional organization whose nearly 40,000 members include pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy students who provide patient care services in hospitals, health systems, and ambulatory clinics. ASHP is the only national organization of hospital and health-system pharmacists and has a long history of improving medication use and enhancing patient safety. ASHP hosts a number of national-level meetings and conferences each year to provide health-system pharmacy practitioners with venues for updating their knowledge, networking with colleagues, enhancing their skills, and learning about the latest health-system pharmacy issues, products and technologies.
Orchid Event Solutions:
Orchid is a full service provider of online event registration and convention housing services with over 20 years of experience. One of the nation’s leading convention housing services providers, Orchid's focus is to assist event organizers in maximizing their hotel room blocks and minimizing any risk of attrition. Utilizing the leading hotel booking and management technology, GroupMAX ME by Passkey, Orchid provides event specific web/mobile booking sites, extensive sub block and exhibitor management, in-house customer call center and on-site attendee support.
Orchid provides customized web/mobile multilingual online event registration services, software, on-site registration support, secure payment processing, exhibitor registration and exhibit booth personnel allocation, name badge and ticket production, attendance tracking, CEU management and certification, computer and printer rental and lead retrieval services.
