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Groups360 Adds Choice Hotels to Group Instant Booking Platform

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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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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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Here’s Where Business Meetings and Travel Are Being Booked

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That’s according to predictive data company Adara , which reports that both those Western cities are down only 29 percent for business trips booked in the last two months as compared to same period in 2019. The company says these bookings “very likely reflect travel by small and medium-sized businesses.”.

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ETC and University of Surrey launch children’s book series to promote careers in tourism

ETC Corporate

Today, the European Travel Commission (ETC) and the University of Surrey launch the publication of two children’s books: Dee and Flee at the Theme Park by Julia Hubery and Searchlight: The Rock by Ann Bryant.

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DIY Car and Train Booking App Could Ease Transportation Inflation 

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Do you sometimes wish you could book the most reasonably priced rental car by clicking a few buttons on your phone? The travel management company CWT just added car rental and train booking to their app and website to give travelers more independence in making their reservations at a time when travel costs are reaching historic highs. .

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Hilton Readies Small-Meeting Booking Tool

MeetingsNet

The Events.Hilton.com site is being enhanced to allow planners with groups of up to 35 attendees to book meetings online. Hilton has announced plans to roll out a direct-booking tool for small, simple meetings in early 2024. Companies in the program will have a customized booking website and receive discounted rates.

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State of In-Person Events: Who’s Booking What, Where & When?

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Who’s Booking : Hyatt is seeing a huge increase in leads from third-party RFP platforms like Cvent, and site selection companies like HelmsBriscoe. What They’re Booking : Small meetings and local events are coming back first, followed by regional and then national events. San Francisco and Chicago. appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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