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Southwest Commits to Groups with Simplified Booking, Investment in Routes and People

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Dave Harvey, vice president and chief sales officer for the airline, explained that the new product makes booking and/or changing names for group flights—something that could have taken weeks of manual confirmations, approvals and information gathering in the past—a self-service task with the potential to be condensed into a few minutes.

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Is the RFP Dead? Long Live Next Evolution of Booking

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Hotel sales teams are barraged with automated forms, lean staffs and limited information to determine what the customer really needs. There has also been a shortening of booking windows almost throughout 2021. Some of the shopping around could also be connected to increased in rates above 2019 for 2022 dates and beyond.

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Press Release: MeetingPackage named Best Online Venue Booking Platform in the 2023 HotelTechAwards

Meeting Package

Helsinki, Finland – 10 January 2023 For the third year in a row, MeetingPackage is honored to announce that we have been named 2023’s #1 Best Online Venue Booking Platform by Hotel Tech Report. This means that MeetingPackage’s users decided the #1 Best Online Venue Booking Platform,” said Hotel Tech Report CEO, Jordan Hollander.

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Top 3 DMC Trends as Tracked by an AI Proposal Platform

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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. Automation is littered with the bodies of technology companies that don’t understand our unique industry,” she said.

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IACC Plans to Fill in the Gaps on Latest Meeting Intelligence at Las Vegas Conference

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But in the Spring 2022, Meeting Rooms of the Future Barometer survey of global small and medium-size venues, only 46% said they are receiving increased requests to provide social responsibility or environmental credentials and only 13% are being asked to measure the carbon used to run their meetings. Automated Planning. CSR in Action.

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TIS – Tourism Innovation Summit selects the top 40 startups impacting tourism worldwide

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The Telefónica Award also went to the Hospitality sector rewarding Aphy, a robotic process automation tool in the sector, which facilitates the integration of systems and operational optimisation of hotels with a fully managed service. Finally, La Salle Technova has distinguished the initiatives of three different startups.

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TIS2022 to define the future of global tourism

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TIS – Tourism Innovation Summit 2022, the technology event for travel and tourism professionals, returns to Seville (Spain) from 2 to 4 November. The post TIS2022 to define the future of global tourism appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily.

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