MICE-Works Beta Roll Out

Key representatives of Krisam and Gobal Events Partners were briefed on development progress of MICE-Works. Participants included Chris White, Jim Schultenover, Scott White, Kathleen McDermott, Stacy Tischler, and Jennifer Arthur. A copy of the briefing notes are available in .pdf format here: Corporate Social Networking.

John Iwaniec led the briefing and discussed development progress and direction and did an online walk through of the beta-site. The vision includes establishing the site as a major open-access resource in the Meetings Industry knowledge network.

Farecast – Hotel Search Tool

Farecast is an airline fare comparison site that has released a beta version of its new hotel rate search tool. It presents data on the basis of rate histories for each hotel and is, therefore, able to identify high/low rate scales for hotels in each search universe. The search results indicate whether rates quoted for your selected date range are high/low or average based upon the hotels rate history.

European Business Hotels

Don’t miss the CNBC European Business’ edition on Hotels. In particular, there are two articles worthy of attention by planners working in European markets as well at hoteliers competing for market share there. First is a high level listing of what is reported to be Europe’s 25 top performing business hotels. We have added the Web links to these hotels in the sidebar to the right. Peruse the sites to get a sense of what market leaders are doing with their Web presences to appeal to and support meeting planning (e.g., venue details and photography of meeting spaces within the respective properties). Also, see the discussion on hot trends in European hotels.

City Page – Washington, DC

We’ve begun work on the first of a series of city pages which will serve as repositories of useful information for meetings professionals.  Our staring point is Washington, DC.  Soon to follow will be Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas, New York, and Orlando.  Please browse to the page by selecting “Washington, DC” from the “Pages” list in the right-hand sidebar or by going here.

MICE-Works Industry Survey Completed

We have completed a survey of over 350 meetings industry professionals.  You may see the actual survey form here.  If you have a few minutes to answer five questions, please do so.  You may review the survey results here.

We have significantly increased resource links based upon results of this survey.  Please peruse the list in the right-hand sidebar and let us know other links that you find particularly useful.  You can do that in either of two ways.  Contribute to the survey here or leave your comment below.