MeetingPackage

Selling meeting rooms like hotel rooms

MeetingPackage sells meeting and event space online. Hotels and other venues use its cloud software to take group, meeting and event business through digital channels, rather than by long email exchanges and speculative requests for proposals. The company's own line is that a venue should be able to sell a meeting room as easily as a guest room.

An operating system for groups and events

The current website calls it an AI-native central reservation system for the whole groups, meetings and events process, starting at the first incoming request and ending at a signed proposal. The modules it names are a central reservation system, an AI suite, a booking engine, an electronic proposal tool, global lead passing and a channel manager. The booking engine can be set up in minutes without coding and sits on the venue's own website, so guests reserve spaces there as they would a room.

Real-time data and connections

The software exchanges information with a venue's existing systems in both directions, so availability, prices and food and beverage details stay current. The vendor says its API has more connections than any other in the meetings and events industry, and its older pages describe dynamic pricing and a single place to manage content and inventory. Analytics and global distribution system links are listed among the products.

Hotels, venues and partners

Its solutions pages are divided between hotel chains, independent hotels, partners such as online travel agencies, travel management companies and destination management companies, and unique venues and event spaces. Planners and corporate bookers can use a global marketplace of more than 250,000 meeting rooms, offered with real-time availability, and partners can use it through a white-label solution or an affiliate programme.

Recognition it cites

MeetingPackage says it was voted the top online venue booking platform in the 2022 Hotel Tech Awards and describes itself as a six-time winner of that title. It also cites a 4.7 out of 5 rating on a hotel technology review site. A knowledge base covers common questions and product updates, and access to its API library is available on request.