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Groups360 Claims Direct Guest, Meeting Room Booking Ability, IHG First to DeployBy Donna M. Airoldi

The ability to directly book both event space and guest rooms at the same time without the need for a request for proposal long has stymied planners and... KEEP READING

Accor Partners with Microsoft to Launch New Hybrid Meeting ServiceBy Donna M. Airoldi

Accor has partnered with Microsoft Teams to create and offer a new hybrid meetings service, the company announced. Dubbed All Connect, the service is... KEEP READING

Choice Hotels Expands Group Room Booking OptionsBy Donna M. Airoldi

Choice Hotels has enhanced its group booking program for hotel rooms and is expanding the number of rooms allowed to be booked without a request for... KEEP READING

IHG to Enhance Meetings Program, Hybrid CapabilitiesBy Donna M. Airoldi

IHG Hotels & Resorts on March 3 will launch enhancements to its Meet with Confidence groups program, and unveil a new landing page for it, the company... KEEP READING

Using Meetings Data To Assess Demand Recovery

A common meetings industry perspective is that group business will be the last sector of the travel industry to recover, and it's still anyone's guess... KEEP READING

Groupize Adds Car Rental Module, Redesigned PlatformBy Donna M. Airoldi

Meetings technology company Groupize has redesigned and enhanced its meetings management platform, the company announced. ... KEEP READING

Virtual Event Solutions Keep Racking Up Funding RoundsBy Donna M. Airoldi

Virtual experience company Touchcast has raised $55 million in Series A funding, the company announced Wednesday. The money will be used to scale... KEEP READING

Bizzabo: Four in Five Virtual Events Were Free to Attend in 2020By Donna M. Airoldi

Virtual events unquestionably replaced in-person ones for most of 2020, and about 80 percent of them were offered to attendees for free, according to... KEEP READING

Booking Site EventUp Expands InternationallyBy Donna M. Airoldi

Event booking platform EventUp has expanded beyond the United States into seven new markets, the company announced.... KEEP READING

USTA Calls for 'Policies and Incentives' to Bring Back Meetings & EventsBy Donna M. Airoldi

The U.S. Travel Association has been working with the new Biden administration on policies that can be adopted to jump-start travel and boost... KEEP READING

Alliance Reservations Network Debuts Hotel Group Booking PlatformBy Donna M. Airoldi

Travel technology and hotel distribution company Alliance Reservations Network has launched a direct booking solution, dubbed GPS Link, that connects... KEEP READING

Groupize Expands Executive TeamBy Dawit Habtemariam

Meetings management company Groupize has expanded its team with six executive hires. Groupize has named former Orbitz analyst and IBM team lead Adam... KEEP READING

ABC Global Services Launches Mtgs. Venture, to Debut Virtual Events PlatformBy Donna M. Airoldi

ABC Global Services and several of its travel and meetings and events units have restructured to create a new entity known as the Etherio Group, which... KEEP READING

Tips and Takeaways for Virtual Events in 2021By Cvent SVP and chief marketing officer Patrick Smith

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to relocate our professional and personal lives into online meeting rooms and other virtual... KEEP READING

Meetingselect Acquires MICE Access, Unveils Workspace Booking ToolBy Donna M. Airoldi

Netherlands-based meetings management platform Meetingselect has completed the acquisition of the Germany-based MICE Access, a global meetings... KEEP READING

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