Two new game-changing features transform housing and management of projects, trainings, engagements, groups, and events in one end-to-end platform.
BOSTON, MA – Groupize, aleader in Simple Meetings an Events technology announced the launch Event Booking Pages and Instant Block, two new game-changing features to transform housing and management of projects, groups, and events in a single platform. The new service targets a void in the current hotel booking process for hospitality spend management and includes recruiting, training, project teams, special events, and more.
The two new features are included as part of Groupize Simple Meetings solution. With the enhanced functionality, travel agencies and corporations are able to improve efficiencies for the setup and management of attendees booking their hotel rooms. It closes the gap between a single transient booking and the inefficient “off-line” rooming list exchange process the industry has lived with for too many years.
With Event Booking Pages, planners can customize their own dedicated white labeled event booking page within minutes just by adding branding, images, videos, descriptions, locations, and dates. Furthermore, planners can curate their properties from 1 hotel to many, and offer public, transient, or negotiated room block rates, all which will integrate directly into their agencies’ GDS.
With Instant Block, planners can pre-negotiate their blocks and get the hotels to load room block rate codes for groups of any sizes that can be booked in real-time, therefore creating instant room confirmations and live PNR segments within an exclusive booking process which includes special rates that are only visible to the event attendees.
Because all the enhanced capabilies are integrated in the Groupize Meetings platform, a planner has access to their own portal for the event to upload a list of attendees and send an invitation to them to book their sleeping rooms. Planners can even capture additional information such as custom questions, add-ons and offer air, including integrating to Concur. The system supports encrypted ghost cards, virtual cards and removing the laborious faxing of credit card authorizations for pre-paid hotel rooms.
“Groupize has a long history of innovation within the hospitality industry which is a direct result of our singular focus on client needs,” explains says Charles de Gaspe Beaubien, the company’s CEO. “As a result of this commitment, we were led by our forward-thinking clients to develop Event Pages and Instant Block to adddress the business needs that are incapable of being satisfied with the existing manual and rooming lists processes.”
The launch of the two new tools will enable Groupize clients to provide better service for internal users, streamline negotiations and communications with suppliers and achieve greater savings through a competitive bidding process.
Charles adds, “Our passion is to bring the Simple Meetings and Events online while servicing all the constituents. Event Booking Pages and Instant Block are quickly becoming our most in-demand solutions and both originated from the requests of our visionary corporations and agencies. Our clients were looking for a greater level of efficiency and calculated the ROI and money savings of the improved processes that would be faciliated by our latest innovations.”
Additional functionality of the Groupize platform includes attendee management, communication, reports, collaboration, rooming list, flight manifest, Cancellations, and Modifications, Integrate to Concur profiles and air Emulation and PNR Management.
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