Monday, December 27, 2010

Jeff Duncan is a Business in Vancouver Top Forty under 40 winner!

A major milestone was achieved this week when Jeff Duncan, Meetingmax President and COO, was announced as a 2010 Business in Vancouver Top Forty under 40 winner.

This years theme was Recipes for Success and it appears that Meetingmax has the winning ingredients. In the article Jeff states "there was a point when I realized I could obtain any client I wanted to if I worked hard enough at it"; obtaining new clients is something he has clearly put into action as "the number of hotel transactions the company's software facilitates has grown 600% in the last three years", no easy feat. 

Check out page 24 for all the details.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Join us for the 2011 Meetingmax UNconvention!

We want to officially invite you to the 2011 Meetingmax UNconvention! We have created a great line up of learning sessions for you this year. Take a look at the attached invite to view what we have planned.

                                         Click here to view the 2011 invitation

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Small Market Meetings Magazine - Smaller CVBs are Adding Online Housing

This week Meetingmax, and some of our clients, were highlighted in an article in Small Market Meetings titled Smaller CVBs are Adding Online Housing.

Check out a caption of the article below:

When it comes to handling hotel room bookings for larger meetings and sports groups, more convention and visitor bureaus in smaller cities are offering online housing bureaus.

Adding the service — used by meetings that require multiple hotels — is one way smaller cities can stay competitive.

An online housing bureau streamlines management of convention housing. Instead of working with staffs at several hotels in a city, the planners work with their contact at the CVB.

A link to the housing bureau is provided for each group’s website. The housing information found at the link is tailored to each specific group, based on the hotels where it has room blocks. Attendees visit the site to peruse the hotels available, choose their rooms and make their reservations. The site is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They can return to the site to make changes if needed.

Planners can easily get reports on room pickup and monitor their group’s housing.

“They have the ability to track who is attending and to drive attendees into the block of rooms to avoid attrition,” said Samantha Jones, Director of Client Services for Meetingmax, which launched its online housing product about eight years ago.

For the full story click here