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Boca Raton, FL – June 3, 2011 – Cendyn, a full service hospitality sales and marketing agency, announced today the acquisition of RoundTableHQ, which will continue to operate as a separate company and benefit from Cendyn’s technology and financial resources. Cendyn is the leading single-source provider of turnkey online internet marketing and sales solutions that increase profitability for hotel companies. RoundTableHQ, with offices in the U.S. and England, designs and builds innovative products that include getplanning™ for the meetings and events industry. Click here to learn more about Cendyn marketing solutions. getplanning, available on iPad, provides real-time communication and updates when event changes are made getplanning is an easy to use, secure web-based portal that provides any-time access for meeting planners and hotel staff to review and update documents such as banquet event orders, contracts, and rooming lists. The system creates real time communication of event details that will result in a smoother planning process. When event documents are updated, getplanning provides instant email communication between specific event stakeholders such as meeting coordinators, catering service managers, and A/V managers to ensure any changes are acknowledged and factored into event execution. As an added plus, when meeting planners are onsite they may use getplanning on an iPad as a branded, sophisticated interactive application. getplanning saves time and money RoundTableHQ’s web-based getplanning technology will integrate Cendyn’s eProposal™, ePlanning™, and eMenus™ products providing planners with a variety of resources to better manage group events. Developed by a seasoned meeting planner, the system is engineered to enhance the planner experience and promote efficiencies that produce substantial savings to the hotels through elimination of costs connected with the printing of documents and the excess labor incurred with the current planning process. The system’s fluid work flow also provides event planners with time savings, creating a win-win for both hoteliers and planners. “RoundTableHQ’s innovative products for the meeting and events industry are the ideal addition to our suite of solutions,” said Robin Deyo, executive vice president of Cendyn. “Absolutely unique to the travel industry, getplanning is a natural extension of our existing toolset and furthers our commitment to providing solutions that drive bottom line results. Hotels and venues worldwide look to Cendyn for effective ways to showcase their product, upsell their offerings, and now make their clients’ lives easier during the planning phase.” “We are truly excited not only to showcase our getplanning application, which we feel will revolutionize the meeting planning process, but also to launch our business relationship with Cendyn. The synergies between our companies and the combined suite of products will create greater efficiencies in the world’s largest hotel chains and independent properties. It will also make the life of the meeting planner substantially more detailed and easy,” said Jon Summersfield, president of RoundTableHQ. “Products should be designed with the end user in mind and that’s what our teams achieve. Our solutions are always simple yet highly effective.” Going to HITEC 2011 in
Austin? Visit
Booth 639 to meet with Cendyn’s team and learn how Cendyn can increase
your
revenue with award-winning online solutions and strategies. Connect with Cendyn on 
and  About RoundTableHQ  RoundTableHQ is a web
solution company that uses the latest technologies to deliver powerful
web-based
applications to a number of industries, specifically the hospitality
sector. This
successful collaboration initially between an industry leader in
meeting
planning & global event management and one of the United Kingdom’s
rising
web developers has grown to create a portfolio of products that have
been
recognized as dynamic and forward-thinking but at the same time simple
and
effective. RoundTableHQ is a privately held company headquartered in
Boca
Raton, FL. For more information, please email [email protected] or
visit http://RoundTableHQ.com. About Cendyn  Established
in 1996, Cendyn is a full service agency specializing in turnkey
solutions that
drive bottom line results for the travel and hospitality
industries. Founded by hoteliers and marketing
professionals, Cendyn’s proven strategies and innovative Marketing,
Sales,
Reservations, and CRM solutions raise online visibility while driving
direct
internet revenue and ROI for more than 12,000 hotels and travel
destinations
worldwide. Clients include: Starwood
Hotels & Resorts, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Hyatt Hotels and
Resorts,
Hilton Worldwide, Marriott, and other chains and independent
properties. Cendyn is a privately held company
headquartered in Boca Raton, FL. For
more information, please call 866-625-4518 or visit www.cendyn.com. |