HAYS, an ideal community to have your next convention or meeting! If you are looking for a unique small town city where you can combine business and pleasure, then you will be impressed with our community. Meeting planners will find what they need in Hays with a variety of facilities that include a premier university conference center, a variety of restaurant meeting rooms, a rustic frontier banquet facility, full service conference hotels and a wide selection of community meeting centers.
The Hays Convention and Visitors Bureau will help you arrange, plan and coordinate your next event. Call today! 1-800-569-4505
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If you need assistance organizing an event in Hays, contact our office and we'll be glad to explain the variety of services that we can provide your group or association. Our assistance is available to organizations of any size, large or small, local, state or national. We work with state associations, family reunions, community organizations, school alumni groups, professional clubs and many other groups. Many of our services are free and are designed to make it easier for you to plan a successful and productive event.
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HAYS HAS IT ALL
Hays is an excellent site for meetings, seminars or conventions. Our convenient location on I-70 and easy access to convention, banquet and lodging facilities makes it simple for convention delegates to get to meeting and hotel accommodations. Hays is centrally located just west of the heart of Kansas crossroads and midway through the central wheat belt.
Community Profile – Hays is a friendly community of 20,000 residents with a colorful frontier history and proud Volga German heritage. We are surrounded by productive agricultural land and have one of the finest medical facilities in western and central Kansas. Big city traffic, crime and security issues typical of larger cities are not a problem in Hays. You'll find quality cultural, technological, culinary and professional services with lots of fun recreational attractions.
1st Rate banquet, meeting and conference facilities for conventions large or small. Facilities in Hays can accommodate groups of 10-1100. The largest banquet facility can seat up to 800.
Lodging – 14 hotel/motel properties with 1000 rooms. National chains and locally owned.
Restaurants - Over 60 great places to eat in Hays including fine dining, bar & grills, buffets, dessert novelty shops, and a variety of fast food chains.
Attractions – Twenty unique museums, historic sites and tourist attractions.
Location – Hays is centrally located in Kansas and the geographical center of the continental United States. Lodging and conference facilities are easy to get to right off I-70.
Local Commitment – Want to look good and make it easy to plan your event? We can do that for you. Convention/meeting planners typically tell us their event in Hays was one of the best they've had in years. People get excited about coming to Hays because it is something new and different. Not the same routine conference center near the airport noise or the big city traffic and congestion hassle. We are easy to work with, have over 20 years of experience in planning events, and we always try to return your phone call or e-mail the same day.