The Netherlands-based venue sourcing and strategic meetings management platform Meetingselect has released a "distancing seating" solution in response to new Covid-19 safety regulations and practices, the company announced. Meetingselect collaborated with major hotel chains to develop the new algorithm, which calculates venues' seating-per-meeting requirements based on countries' distancing policies, it said.
In the United States, the tool also can apply state- or city-level policies, when known, but otherwise uses six feet between attendees as its distancing measurement. Venues also can adjust when changes need to be implemented, the company said.
Depending on a planner's preferred meeting set-up—including U-shape, boardroom, theater or classroom—and social distancing requirements, the tool automatically will suggest venues and meeting rooms that comply. The software also can indicate the maximum capacity of a planner's desired meeting room. The feature is available immediately.
Meetingselect features a database of more than 245,000 conference hotels and over 500,000 meeting spaces in more than 100 countries.