Elizabeth West

4 days ago | businesstravelnews.com | Elizabeth West

Meetings booking and management platform Groups360 on Tuesday launched GroupSync Connect, enabling GroupSync to operate within third-party event management platforms, allowing users to access real-time hotel rates and booking capabilities directly within partner platforms. According to CEO Kemp Gallineau, the move could reduce reliance on external tools and lengthy request-for-proposal processes by embedding functionality into systems clients already use.

4 days ago | businesstravelnews.com | Elizabeth West

Meetings Meetings and group accommodation platform Hubli has launcheda virtual card payments solution developed with fintech company Conferma. CalledEasyPay, it aims to address inefficiencies in how corporate travel and eventsteams handle payments to hotels and venues. According to Hubli’s research, payment and expensemanagement are among the top challenges for both corporate buyers and hotels.

2 weeks ago | businesstravelnews.com | Elizabeth West

Meetings management platform provider injects artificialintelligence throughout its workflows; releases Cvent “Essentials” to generalcustomers. After a year in clientbeta testing, Cvent announced Tuesday at its Connect conference in San Antoniothat the company has released its Cvent Essentials platform to its generalcustomer base.

2 weeks ago | businesstravelnews.com | Elizabeth West

Meetings In a world accelerated by artificial intelligence, self-servemeetings platform Groupize is positioning itself as an AI-forward solution andrebranding to Groupize.ai. The company announced upcoming partnerships with AI-poweredgroup booking platform Amgine, as well as with Hivr.ai and MeetingsPackage todeliver instant venue bookings that include live integrations with sales andcatering platforms to ensure real-time group availability, dynamic pricing andseamless booking.

4 weeks ago | businesstravelnews.com | Elizabeth West

BTN Looks Back The world of corporate travel seems to have gotten so much more complicated in 2017. The pieces had been building for a long time, but with global programs, the dramatic upswing in international business travel and the penetration of data throughout the business travel ecosystem, the stage was set for a number of watershed developments. Many of these surrounded security, both physical and cyber security, but also the innovation driven by all that data.