About MeetingsIn

The Challenge: Meeting planners securing space for a small to mid-size meeting typically do not use professional venue finding services or such services are not available. The task of planning, searching and securing a venue is often delegated to someone who has several other responsibilities and duties. These planners have little resources or tools available to them and they are unable to effectively interface with all of the possible hotels or suppliers that can meet their needs. As a result, the person charged with this task is unable to complete adequate searches, conduct proper hotel evaluations and therefore may not select the best venue for their meeting. MeetingsIn.com was developed to aid this planner by providing them access to local information and resources in one global site while at the same time providing hotels and suppliers excellent access to this underserved market in an easy and cost effective way.

The Solution: MeetingsIn.com is a global meetings and conference portal with localized city sites that provide the meeting planner a one-stop-source for searching and planning their meetings, while providing hotels direct real-time control of their promotional messages.

The main purpose of the website is :
1) To allow hotels, conference venues and suppliers a gateway to promote and monitor their listings to meeting planners.
2) Empower meeting planners to research multiple venues and directly request information from hotels and suppliers all in one city-focused website; or request help from a MeetingsIn specialist.

These comprehensive sites provide destination facts, resources, meeting planning tips, updated industry information through RSS feeds and are a vehicle for obtaining personalized local expertise should the planner desire. Meetingsin.com was designed to provide easy access to a high level of search and selection information for the less experienced planner who is typically forced to conduct their own independent searches.

The Results: The impact of Meetingsin.com for destinations lies in the power to provide them unfettered access to the small to mid tier planner, while providing the planner with an efficient and comprehensive function for searching, reviewing and interfacing with multiple city destinations around the world. For the first time, meeting venues now have hands-on control over what they promote and when they want to promote, as well as a dashboard interface providing a matrix to evaluate the success of their listing. This online portal opens the door in a unique and powerful way that will make a difference in the revenue generated from this highly dispersed small to mid-tier market.