My Meetings is designed to think ahead for the planner by pre-populating key areas of importance such as price range, cities, and dates. It offers considerations that a busy professional may overlook when initially planning a meeting such as room and seating layout, ceiling height in the meeting room, and high-speed Internet lines needed for complex presentations. The comprehensive RFP process, designed with input from meeting planners, enables planners to attach Word or Excel documents in order to utilize valuable data as well as save favorite property listings to a My Favorites folder. The new site features auction technology from CommerceBid. Hotels with available inventory compete to provide the best rates and overall meeting packages based on planners meeting specifications.
Planners can post property reviews about meeting experiences at particular venues.
The new Resource Center , enabling planners to quickly locate, sort and compare comprehensive information about thousands of global properties, dramatically improves the efficiency of a planners search for the ideal meeting venue. This component features unbiased, unfiltered content that helps make critical business decisions in a timely manner. Planners can look at property visuals, site statistics, airport information, map of city and geographic location, property amenities, food and beverage pricing and more. In addition, planners will have links to helpful online services such as a group airfare calculator and group airline discount codes. The Resource Center also includes an extensive database of conventions and trade shows as well as links to industry organization websites.