Smart Meetings

APRIL 6, 2023

She has been building the platform by using it for her DMC clients and soft launched to others. “As Just as you might make a look book for the top three or 10 destinations with images, square footages and prices, this makes it easy to show what is popular, creative and available when the client needs it.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 10, 2025

Sign up for the monthly Behind the Bookings newsletter here Understanding the Shift in Meeting Dynamics Corporate leaders are placing greater emphasis on regular in-person interactions to bridge the gaps created by remote and hybrid work models. Failing to deliver on promises can damage reputation and deter future business.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 15, 2025

This emerging trend is reshaping the hospitality industry, driven by shifting work cultures, an increasing emphasis on work-life balance, and the rise of “digital nomadism.” Hotels that offer seamless booking extensions, as well as adaptable check-in and check-out policies, can better meet these needs.

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Dana Communications

APRIL 4, 2024

The golden rule of traveling was always to book early, and the earlier the better. Jump ahead to today’s world of flexible work schedules and mobile-savvy globe-trotters and you’ll find that more and more people are choosing to book shorter, spur-of-the-moment trips on the fly. Want to boost bookings in today’s spontaneous society?

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Endless Events

APRIL 6, 2018

Here Are the Meeting Booking Stats You Need to Know. Online booking platforms have become important tools for helping professionals find ideal meeting rooms for their audience. Meetingsbooker.com, one such platform, has opened up their statistics so event planners can understand current trends in the space.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

She brings over 10 years of experience in hospitality sales and marketing and a specialty in weddings, milestone anniversary celebrations, reunions and more special events. She brings over 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry. Pyramid Global Hospitality awarded her with “Biggest Market Share Increase” in 2022.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Chatbots have become one of the most significant trends of today’s eCommerce industry — an AI (artificial intelligence) platform that allows businesses to simulate the behavior of humans within a conversational environment. How can businesses gain a competitive edge in the hospitality industry using chatbots?

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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

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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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

With a specialization in system and process implementation and making hotel finance acceptable and practical, she will be instrumental in the hospitality group’s growth. During her career of over 25 years in the hospitality industry, Henshall has worked with global leaders including Marriott, Hilton and Caesar’s Entertainment.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Dream Yacht Worldwide Shares Trends, 2025 Predictions Dream Yacht Worldwide (DYW) says its research reveals that early bookings, short-haul vacations and destinations beyond the Caribbean are among the top travel and sailing trends of 2024. Turo, the worlds largest peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace, features hosts across the U.S.,

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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

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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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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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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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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