Accor Partnership Delivers Planner Efficiencies
Meeting and event planners can now book any Accor property in the UK at the touch of a button thanks to a new partnership with venuedirectory.com.
The venue finding platform covering 80 properties nationally is now directly integrated with Accor’s diary management system. This means that the planner’s RFP will be shared directly with the conference team at the specified Accor property. The result is a rapid and competitive response to the planner’s RFP and increased efficiencies for the property.
Dana Lewis, VP M&E, Luxury M&E & Leisure, Northern Europe at Accor, who has been championing the project in the UK, explains: "This has been a tough year for us all in the industry and we are delighted to work with venuedirectory.com through this time to deliver this significant technology enhancement.”
Her colleague Katja Reisch, Director of MICE & Leisure Distribution Northern Europe, adds: "This was a really important project for Accor and we are delighted that our team have worked throughout with venuedirectory.com to get this deployed. The next stage is to roll this out across the rest of Europe and then the international hotels, smart connections across the meetings distribution network is a key part of our future recovery and global efficiencies.”
Planners can book with confidence through venuedirectory.com in the knowledge that their RFP will automatically be entered directly into Accor’s processing system. Michael Begley, CEO of venuedirectory.com, explains: “This speeds up the response process for hotels which ultimately brings huge time-saving benefits for meeting and event planners. Our partnership with Accor delivers efficiencies all round and, as more and more hotels and venues are directly integrated with our systems, the integration will facilitate bookings and support the recovery of our industry.”
venuedirectory.com was launched in 1993 and now has a database of over 400,000 meeting and event spaces in 170 countries. In 2008 Venuedirectory.com launched the UK’s first end to end solution for meetings management - GRATIS - which is today used by over 50 specialist businesses and organisations throughout the UK. In addition, the company also developed an open API allowing organisations to implement bespoke online client solutions.
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venuedirectory.com is a UK-based business established in 1993 and has a database of over 400,000 meeting and event spaces in 170 countries. It provides venue data, websites and venue sourcing software to the meetings and events industry.