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Groups360 Adds Choice Hotels to Group Instant Booking Platform

Smart Meetings

Groups360 announced this week that Choice Hotels worldwide will be offering online instant booking for group guest rooms through their proprietary GroupSync Marketplace. Instant Group Booking at Scale Choice joins hoteliers Marriott , Hilton and IHG on the platform that allows meeting planners to direct book without the need to submit an RFP.

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13 Reasons To Use Event Platforms for In-Person Events

Endless Events

But before you get too entrenched in booking speakers or drawing up venue contracts, it’s best to think about how you’ll get results from an in-person event. Thanks in large part to COVID-19, many in-person events include a digital component, typically in the form of an event platform. How can you track attendee metrics? Or engagement?

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How To Increase Event Platform Adoption Rates

Endless Events

Your brand went through the time and expense to set up a unique event platform; Whether it’s a web-based platform or an app, you have tons of fun features, tools, and resources in the platform for your attendees. But when it’s time to host your event, attendees aren’t using the platform. What’s going on?

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

Smart Meetings

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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Meeting-Booking Platform Adds “Live” Component

MeetingsNet

Hubli, an online-booking system for simple meetings, now has a tool that venues can use to display available meeting space in real time. Event-booking platform Hubli has introduced an application programming interface, or API, that allows venues to display real-time meeting-space availability from their in-house property management systems.

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Quick Trips: How to Score Spontaneous Bookings

Dana Communications

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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Here Are The 22 Best Event Platforms To Use In 2022!

Endless Events

In a world of lockdowns and social distancing, virtual platforms took over the function of event venues (and then some). We saw an incredible surge in event platforms , leaving many event planners confused. Which virtual event platform features to look for? The 22 Best Event Platforms To Use In 2022! The result?

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