Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2022

Designed in collaboration with Tourism Cares , a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the hospitality industry more eco-friendly, this free course is a great first step toward a more sustainable style of travel. Hundreds of pages of e-books and guides about the hospitality industry are also available.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 9, 2024

KAYAK Business Announces New Partnership KAYAK has partnered with Blockskye, a payment and blockchain solutions provider, to offer customers an elevated experience when booking corporate travel. Members earn one point per dollar spent at Oliver Hospitality Group hotels, including room reservation fees.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 10, 2023

Booking Insights Destinations International presented its 2023 Showcase and also made an announcement that it would be forming a “strategic alliance” with Groups360 , the technology company that offers online booking strategies for meeting planners and connects group travel organizations and hoteliers.

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Travel Daily Media

APRIL 9, 2024

The post Meetingselect is using Travelport+ to enable direct and preferred hotel bookings appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. Meetingselect has recently started working with Travelport, a global technology company that powers travel bookings for hundreds of thousands of travel suppliers worldwide.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Over the last few years, many players in the hospitality industry have implemented smartphone door locks, instant communication, and other self-service technologies. Since international travel reopened, delivering contactless experiences has become the primary goal of leading players in the hospitality industry. Source: Intelity.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 26, 2021

The hospitality industry was among those that suffered the most because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Listing your property in metasearch websites and investing in a marketing campaign can help increase visibility and attract more direct bookings. We’ve already described the main distribution channels : GDSs , OTAs , and bed banks.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 27, 2023

With Cvent Webinar, event organizers can now host webinars directly on Cvent’s platform, allowing planners to manage their events and webinars in one place. It will also integrate with marketing platforms and CRM systems to allow for better measurement of webinar success.

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Eventtia

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

However, that’s impossible without using hospitality platforms for events. Whether managing events logistics, booking accommodation, or arranging transportation, hospitality platforms are necessary for planning and hosting results-driven events.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2021

Many are focusing more closely on hospital capacity, but those statistics can change quickly. Scott Flynn, CEO of team building provider Best Corporate Events , says his company saw a surge in bookings for live events in June only to see interest pivot back to virtual events more recently. We’re agnostic about the format,” he notes.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The 5,100-property hospitality company joins IHG, Omni, and Hilton in using the GroupSync Engage platform on its brands’ websites, allowing planners to view and book event space and guest rooms on the spot. In most cases, the no-RFP-needed platform “is probably going to be for events needing 50 or fewer guest rooms.”.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 20, 2023

Among hospitality distributors, Expedia has announced early results for its efforts to present an ABS shopping path where possible. One of the hottest topics in hospitality today is attribute-based shopping. Room type examples A Rate Plan represents essentially the practical terms and conditions that go with a booking.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2023

While there are books, movies and endless lectures on the potential dystopian outcomes of wholesale adoption of artificial intelligence, I like to take the optimistic viewpoint. The genie is out of the bottle and it’s only going to be more pervasive and invisible as well. What does that mean for the meetings industry?

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Leonardo

AUGUST 18, 2021

Whether you’re building a multi-property brand.com or an individual hotel website, Live CMS has a host of hospitality-centric features and functionality to manage all your marketing needs. Live CMS is more than a website, it’s a content management system that powers your direct booking technology. Hospitality-specific technology.

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 19, 2024

The post Wonderfruit 2024 names Klook as official travel platform appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily Media. Asian travel and experience platform Klook announced that it has been named the official travel platform for Wonderfruit 2024 in Thailand. What does the partnership entail?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 4, 2024

to Open Field & Stream Bozeman in Winter 2025 The iconic Field & Stream brand’s new branded hospitality platform, Field & Stream Lodge Co. , This streamlines meeting profs’ booking process for roughly 2,000 rooms. We’ve included a suggestion in this week’s edition of Smart Travel. Field & Stream Lodge Co.

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Hotel Engine

JUNE 27, 2022

Let’s find out if you should book a hotel or a motel. When Should I Book a Motel? When Should I Book a Hotel? Whether you’re booking lodging at a hotel or a motel for business travel, Hotel Engine can help. Our platform is built for business and workforce travel. All Your Burning Booking Questions Answered!

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

When I was living with my family in the Canary Islands, where I grew up, my father was a managing director of a hospitality company, so my dream was to set up the tourism company of the future. How can we integrate the new digital platforms? Is it the platform? You have a new book coming out. But I had a different plan.

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Hotel Engine

AUGUST 8, 2022

The hotel industry tends to overlook attracting SMERF bookings in favor of the greater bang-for-buck that comes with booking business meetings and conferences. Nonetheless, SMERF groups still book room blocks, event spaces and food and beverage services like corporate travelers do. Table of Contents. SMERF Defined.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

“Expo 2020 Dubai is an investment in a sustainable, resilient and diversified economy that will spur broader economic impact in key sectors—including construction, transport, storage, communications, travel, tourism, hospitality and business services—in the UAE, the wider region and beyond,” Nagdev said. Pandemic Impacts. Kailash Nagdev.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

But recent years have seen an increasing number of event management applications, culminating in six of 2018’s nine finalists specializing in behind the scenes management or booking. CadmiumCD –a meeting room scheduling, resource management system and event logistic management platform. SpiceFactory –a speaker management system.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2019

As a part of Airbnb’s mission to create an end-to-end travel platform, this move will allow meeting planners and attendees to book hotels last-minute with less hassle—whether it be weeks or days ahead. When Airbnb homes aren’t open to guests, people can now book last-minute stays on the quick at boutique and independent hotels.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 13, 2021

One of the ways to do this is implementing a booking engine. What is a hotel booking engine and how it makes you competitive. That means that OTAs are not their first choice, rather the most convenient one to choose, book, and pay for hotel rooms. A booking engine is a software connecting customers and travel providers.

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Travel Daily News

APRIL 5, 2023

LONDON, UK – Sabre Corporation a leading provider of software and technology powering the global travel industry, announced the appointment of Guy Barnes to lead Sabre Hospitality ’s Sales in Europe. We are delighted to have Guy join the Sabre Hospitality team,” said Frank Trampert , Sabre Hospitality SVP, Global Managing Director. “He

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Hotel Engine

AUGUST 7, 2022

Booking influencer events can accelerate your promotions and bring in sales. Influencer content creation includes regularly posting helpful, entertaining and interesting posts on social media platforms. If not, your next strategy should be moving to booking influencer events at your hotel, as these businesses are currently doing.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 20, 2021

Hotels have been experiencing a surge of direct bookings during the pandemic. Yes, while the overall number of bookings dropped due to COVID-19, hotels’ brand.com websites became the third most popular booking channel , in some cases even surpassing Expedia traffic. Direct booking strategies for hotels. Why is that?

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Endless Events

MAY 4, 2021

From choosing the right platform to delivering the best virtual content , we always first need to think about what kind of an experience we are providing for our virtual attendees. Then, March was such a scary moment for everyone in the hospitality industry, so we pivoted to the virtual event realm.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2020

These three will be in your face from the moment you crack open the door to enter the hospitality industry. About half of all hotel bookings happens indirectly, meaning that travelers book rooms at Booking.com, Expedia, Orbitz, and other online travel agencies (OTAs). So, where do these bookings come from? Who uses GDSs.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There’s a shortage of people in all aspects of hospitality , and audio-visual is included in that as well. Come here’ And the same thing applies to our online platforms.” ” “Also, the graphics capabilities that we’re able to do with a Mac book pro and an ATEM switcher is ludicrous.

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Travel Daily News

MARCH 27, 2023

CHELTENHAM, UK – Hotel technology company Journey Hospitality has acquired Premier Software – UK’s leading spa, leisure and wellness management software business – to boost spa services within hotel ecommerce.

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EHL Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Indeed, not unlike other big platforms such as Booking.com , the COVID-19 outbreak was a time for change and self-reflection for the leader of travel review websites. In a nutshell, TripAdvisor would operate as a business operator for various OTAs and the commission for each booking would be split between both parties.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 17, 2021

Building trust between planners and suppliers is key to the success of instant booking for meetings. The current industry standard for booking sleeping rooms and meeting space is like a canyon, with event planners and hotel inventory separated by a massive chasm — a lack of trust and transparency filling the void between.

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Dana Communications

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

As traveler confidence expands and contracts, mirroring the volatile trajectory of the pandemic, the hospitality and tourism industries must make building traveler trust an ongoing priority. SiteMinder’s data-driven Five Stages of the Hotel Booking Reset captures this reality perfectly. Confronting Concerns.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 30, 2021

Throughout its history (both before and after it was bought by Oracle and renamed) OPERA was the PMS of choice for Marriott, Four Seasons, Hyatt, Radisson, and more hospitality leaders. In this article, we will explain how hoteliers and hospitality technology vendors can set up an integration between OPERA PMS and third-party hotel solutions.

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Travel Daily Media

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Tech firm The Booked it Group has launched new festival technology, helping hotels, venues and promoters in the travel industry to collaborate on events. The festival technology links directly with the hotel’s RMS, providing a seamless bolt-on for hotels to take advantage of new festival bookings.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

At a time when many are reacting to changes in climate and attendee expectations, the golden state’s hospitality sector is leading the way to a future that will continue to welcome change-makers for decades to come. San Jose-based cloud video conferencing and event platform BlueJeans is not a Covid-come-lately virtual meeting company.

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Travel Daily Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Of the more than 4,000 startups that applied, 40 were selected as finalists to pitch at TIS2022, differentiated according to the segment of the tourism industry they focus on: Distribution Channels, Destinations, Hospitality, Mobility and Travel, Activities and Leisure and MICE. Beder has won the Telefónica Award.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Advocacy within the travel, tourism and hospitality industries takes on many forms. As registration for the event was thwarted by Covid, NMSS partnered with Capitol Canary software to include advocacy over a virtual platform. Educational Support Elevates DEI and Could Alleviate Staffing Issues.

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