New partnership provides powerful end-to-end solution for travel agents and meeting planners looking to capture the essence of Strategic Meeting Management.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, USA – Meeting the World and MeetingsIn have announced a deal with e-dmc and e-DestinAccess that will see the companies providing a full end-to-end solution for anyone involved in planning meetings and events. The new combined offer will create a seamless and cost-effective journey, from choosing and sourcing venue space to creating and staging meetings and events anywhere in the world.
MeetingsIn’s powerful venue finding tool and Meeting the World’s in-depth and high-quality video and written insight into global destinations will now be added to e-DestinAccess’ destin-e software, which has been designed to automate and streamline event planning, meeting management and concierge/guest services. Destin-e has already successfully operated thousands of group travel programs by utilising destination information in a unique fashion, from planning and scheduling through to purchasing and billing,
Commenting on the deal, MeetingsIn and Meeting the World Chief Executive, Ian Quartermaine, said: “By joining with e-destinAccess we will not only be integrating their tool into MeetingsIn’s offering, but also helping to expand their international customer base through Meeting the World’s growing global footprint. Our new service will offer everything meeting and event planners need to help them stage high-quality business events anywhere in the world. Destin-e™ provides a powerful solution to the growing economical and technological needs of travel agents and meeting professionals, as well as industry suppliers, by directly connecting planners and suppliers while providing the tools, resources and power of automation to facilitate and boost the meeting and event planning business. The addition of MeetingsIn’s venue finding and booking system, together with Meeting the World’s hugely valuable insight into global destinations really makes this a must-have tool for meeting planners.”
Wayne W. Beaubien, Chief Executive and Software Architect of e-destinAccess, added: “To be successful as a travel or meeting professional requires a cost-effective technological solution that provides convenience, efficiency, structure and consistency. Today’s economic climate still leaves us with less staff, and help is clearly needed. By combining our technologies and adding great content, which gives planners unique insight into global destinations, we believe we can shift the paradigm and provide all the help travel and meeting professionals need, allowing them to select, aggregate, schedule, purchase and operate better meetings in less time. Everyone is talking about strategic meetings management, yet until now there has been little out there in the way of tools to help our industry deliver this goal.”
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She has many years of both academic and industrial experience within the travel industry. She has written/edited numerous articles in various tourism magazines.
