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New Book Turns Hospitality Business Leaders in More Productive Direction

Smart Meetings

He sees this book as the capstone on his career to continue elevating the industry into the future. As Hall of Fame De La Salle Coach Bob Ladouceur said about the book, “It’s so easy to understand, and it’s hard to put down. Read More: The Art of Communication “We all know the reality of our times. It just flows.

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What to Expect When Booking A-List Event Speakers

Smart Meetings

As in, what actions a planner should take, what they should ask and what they should expect when booking well-known names —people like Martha Stewart , Shaq, Mark Cuban and Warren Buffett—for keynotes? The post What to Expect When Booking A-List Event Speakers appeared first on Smart Meetings. What Does that Mean for Planners?

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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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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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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’s Where Business Meetings and Travel Are Being Booked

Smart Meetings

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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Oslofjord Convention Center in Norway appoints RMS Cloud to automate bookings

Travel Daily Media

The post Oslofjord Convention Center in Norway appoints RMS Cloud to automate bookings appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily Media. The size and complexity of the site’s booking demands is unmatched by any other property on the continent and our software is delivering.