Convention Housing Partners

What Convention Housing Partners does

Convention Housing Partners (CHP) is a privately held, US-based managed-services firm that provides site selection, hotel contracting, room block management, and post-event audit services to organizers of conventions, conferences, and expositions. Headquartered in Sonoma, California and operating with a self-described small team (11–50 employees), the company positions itself as a full-service housing partner handling every step from initial hotel contract negotiation through reservation collection and rate-compliance auditing, with separate workflows for attendee housing and VIP exhibitor sub-blocks.

The company's service offering is delivered through six integrated modules — Site Selection and Contracting, Full-Time Room Block Management, Online Registration and Housing Management, High Touch Attendee Housing Management, VIP Exhibitor Service, and Perpetual Audits — supported by an Event Connector integration layer and Custom Reservation Sites built on top of the Cvent Passkey reservation engine. This stack enables custom-branded housing websites that mirror each event's look and feel, GDPR- and PCI-compliant transfer of participant reservation data, and segmentation of attendees by specialty (e.g., doctors, lawyers, developers). The underlying reservation engine is a third-party platform; CHP's differentiation is in its integration layer, dual-side industry expertise (event and hotel contracting), and human-operated high-touch service rather than proprietary software IP.

CHP generates revenue through professional service contracts with convention and conference organizers on a quote-based, project-by-project basis. Its go-to-market is sales-led and direct to enterprise event organizers, supplemented by email marketing campaigns designed to drive registration, attendance, and hotel reservations for client events. No public pricing, no named enterprise customers, no outside funding, and no disclosed financials are present in the source data, consistent with a small, privately held, organically funded services firm.

Name

Convention Housing Partners

Legal name

Convention Housing Partners

Website

https://chphousing.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Convention Housing Partners is a US-based managed-services firm that handles hotel contracting, room block management, attendee housing, VIP exhibitor services, and post-event audits for convention, conference, and exposition organizers, using custom reservation sites built on the Cvent Passkey platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Convention Housing Management

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192)

SIC

Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYTHAHAAAC

Hotel & Resort Convention Venues (Convention Hotels)

Travel & Hospitality/MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions)/Conference & Convention Venues (Convention Centers, Civic Centers)

SECONDARYTHAHAAAA

Convention & Exhibition Centers (Public Convention Centers, Civic Centers)

Travel & Hospitality/MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions)/Conference & Convention Venues (Convention Centers, Civic Centers)

SECONDARYTHAGALAH

Large-Scale Headquarters Convention Hotels

Travel & Hospitality/Lodging & Accommodation/Convention & Conference Hotels

Keywords

• Convention housing services
• Room block management
• Event accommodation
• Convention site selection
• Attendee housing management

Headquarters

HQ city

Sonoma

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Convention Housing Management Services: Full-service convention housing management including site selection, contracting, room block management, attendee housing, exhibitor services, and audit services. Revenue is generated through professional service contracts with convention organizers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Convention Housing Partners provides outsourced convention and trade show housing management, including hotel site selection and contracting, full-time room block management, online registration and reservation systems, high-touch attendee housing support, VIP exhibitor services, and post-event perpetual audits. The firm integrates custom reservation technology and Cvent Passkey to manage attendee bookings, reporting, and compliance for event organizers across the United States.

Product overview

Convention Housing Partners offers a suite of convention housing management services built on the industry-leading Cvent Passkey reservation engine. The core offering consists of six integrated service modules: Site Selection and Contracting, Full-Time Room Block Management, Online Registration and Housing Management, High Touch Attendee Housing Management, VIP Exhibitor Service, and Perpetual Audits. These services are powered by Event Connector Technology for seamless registration-housing integration and Custom Reservation Sites built on Cvent Passkey. The company positions itself as a full-service partner handling all aspects of convention housing from initial hotel contracting through post-event audits.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Site Selection and Contracting

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Cvent PasskeycoreTechnology or IntegrationConvention Housing Partners uses the industry-leading Cvent Passkey system as the foundation for building custom hotel reservation systems for client events. Passkey provides the battle-tested reservation engine that has processed millions of reservations and enables GDPR- and PCI-compliant data transfer of participant hotel reservations.

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Cvent: Cvent is the dominant event management technology platform whose Passkey engine CHP builds upon. Cvent also offers its own event housing and registration solutions and competes indirectly with CHP for organizer spend while remaining a critical technology partner.
• Maritz Travel: Maritz Travel provides corporate and association travel, meeting, and event housing services. It overlaps with CHP on hotel contracting and room block management for large conventions.
• Maritz Global Events: Maritz Global Events is a large-scale event management and housing services provider serving associations and corporations. It offers overlapping convention housing capabilities as part of a much broader event services portfolio.
• BCD Meetings & Events: BCD Meetings & Events is a global meetings, incentives, and events management company with housing and registration services for conventions. It competes for the same association and corporate event organizer contracts as CHP, but at greater scale.
• American Express Global Business Travel (Meetings & Events): Amex GBT's Meetings & Events division delivers end-to-end event management including housing and registration for large conventions. It is a broader incumbent that competes with CHP for enterprise association event programs.

Emerging players

• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a ticketing and event registration platform that increasingly offers housing-adjacent tools for event organizers. It has partial overlap with CHP where convention organizers consolidate registration and housing tooling.

Direct peers

• ConferenceDirect: ConferenceDirect provides hotel sourcing, room block management, and housing services for meetings and conventions. It is one of CHP's most direct competitors in the convention housing services category, serving similar association and corporate event organizers.
• HelmsBriscoe: HelmsBriscoe is one of the largest global hotel sourcing and meeting/housing service providers, serving association and corporate meeting planners. It directly competes with CHP for hotel contracting and room block management engagements.
• onPeak (Cendyn): onPeak is a dedicated event housing services company offering room block management, attendee and exhibitor housing, and reporting for conventions. It directly overlaps with CHP's core managed-services offering for convention organizers.

Others

• Passkey (Cvent Passkey): Passkey is the reservation engine technology platform that CHP uses as its core infrastructure. It is the enabling technology partner rather than a direct competitor, but Cvent's broader suite means it can also be an indirect competitor for certain event programs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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