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.

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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.

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