VISIT PHILADELPHIA is our name and our mission. As the region’s official tourism marketing agency, we build Greater Philadelphia’s image, drive visitation and build the economy by getting people to do more, spend more, stay longer and come back more frequently.
We believe in the power of travel; it shapes a person and expands horizons. Philadelphia delivers on our promise of an urban, main street, foodie, historic, cultural, cool, eye-opening, independent experience. It’s one destination, five counties, countless things to do.
We focus on leisure travelers — those who visit Philadelphia for fun. We know through research that these people are active, frequent travelers who like to have plenty to do — in other words, sight-doers. Additionally, we encourage locals to explore their own city and become civic ambassadors.
Visitphilly.com reaches audiences looking for information on what to see, seek and do in the City of Brotherly Love. Known for informative articles and curated lists, visitphilly.com has developed a loyal and engaged audience.
Visitphilly.com acts as a curator, helping visitors find some of the best things to see and do in the city and encouraging love for Philadelphia.
This site represents merely a smattering of Philadelphia’s diverse, ever-growing offerings and happenings. We’ve curated a sampling of what Philly has to offer in the way of fascinating museums, vibrant parks, great hotels, national historic sites, cool (and tax-free) shopping, and famous (and delicious) food.
Reading visitphilly.com is like getting advice from your in-the-know friend in Philly.
The Philly-loving team at VISIT PHILADELPHIA focuses on publishing information about highly engaging things to do and reasons to visit that helps motivate readers to visit Philadelphia, do more while they’re here, stay longer and come back to Philadelphia more frequently.
We also want to represent the amazing diversity of the city by including a wide variety of things to do that speak to many cultural audiences.
As a non-profit marketing agency, VISIT PHILADELPHIA showcases Philadelphia and communicates the voice, essence and image of Philadelphia through our two official websites, visitphilly.com and uwishunu.com. To that end, our sites support multiple VISIT PHILADELPHIA campaigns at any given time — efforts that speak directly to art lovers, urban adventurers and millennials, along with African-American, Latino, LGBT and Canadian travelers.
Editorial content on visitphilly.com and uwishunu.com — articles, posts, features and more — is published and shared based on these goals and considerations as well as VISIT PHILADELPHIA editorial discretion. Editorial content on visitphilly.com and uwishunu.com is 100% independent of advertiser purchases and external approvals.
A refreshed and enhanced visitphilly.com launched in 2018 to better help visitors and locals find out about all things Philadelphia — hotels, restaurants, events, things to do, history, museums, nightlife, shopping, attractions and more.
Now, visitphilly.com delivers information about things to do in Philadelphia via a compelling, inspiring and uncomplicated user experience.
What changed? Keep scrolling.
At Visit Philadelphia, we view each website visit as an opportunity to improve a person’s impression of Philadelphia, increase their desire to visit and get them to do more things while they’re here. To that end, we employ a wealth of digital editorial content to engage our audience and tell the story of Philadelphia.
Visitphilly.com is one of the most successful and highly used destination websites in the country. And while visitphilly.com has been very successful, the infrastructure it was built on was aging. The CMS and design were originally built in 2010. It was time to upgrade.
The upgraded visitphilly.com features a design that places an emphasis on gorgeous photos and video. This design presents Philadelphia as a fun, vibrant place to visit by quickly making an impact on website visitors.
The upgraded website’s design works seamlessly across devices — desktop, mobile and tablet — to ensure the website delivers no matter the user’s device preference.
People are using destination websites very differently than they were a few years ago.
We built a website and navigation that responds to evolving usage trends and will continue to flex for future usage evolution.
We placed a priority on developing the upgraded website to be optimized for organic search. We want our audiences to be able to easily find information on visitphilly.com in a Google search.
Once on visitphilly.com, our content can be easily shared and liked on Facebook and Twitter.
The upgraded visitphilly.com makes it possible to surface visitphilly.com content and uwishunu.com content on a single landing page — further connecting our main visitor website with our insider blog.
The Visit Philly Overnight Package — booked more than 190,000 times since 2001 — comes with free hotel parking (worth up to $100 in Center City Philadelphia), overnight hotel accommodations and choose-your-own-adventure perks.