Nashville

Welcome to our Nashville meeting planning guide – a city guide for meeting planning in Nashville. Visitors flock to Nashville to experience its laid-back atmosphere, celebrate its deep musical roots, and simply enjoy the city's graceful setting comprised of Southern mansions, stately gardens, and historic music and performance locations scattered amongst gleaming skyscrapers. Situated within 600 miles of 50 percent of the U.S. population, visitors will find traveling to this Southern City convenient. Nashville's reputation as an entertainment and business destination attracts millions of visitors each year to Nashville event venues. Nashville is home to two award-winning convention centers, including The Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, the largest non-gaming convention center in the United States, and the Nashville Convention Center, which is located in the heart of Music City's downtown. The Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center offers more than 600,000 square feet of meeting, convention, and exhibition space, as well as nine acres of indoor gardens and waterfalls, an impressive spa, pools, and on-site shopping and dining. The Nashville Convention Center, a modern, gleaming facility, offers 180,000 square feet of exhibit space and countless amenities. Nashville is home to several prominent facilities that have become city landmarks and icons, which lend an authentic and one-of-a-kind air to any meeting or event. Nashville is often regarded as the Athens of the South, thanks to its many four-year undergraduate and post-graduate schools, community colleges, and vocational-technical schools, including Vanderbilt University, Fisk University, Belmont University, and Tennessee State University. Notable businesses headquartered in Nashville include Amazon, Asurion, Bridgestone Americas Inc., HCA Healthcare, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Nissan North America, and more.