meetings & events
Knowland Account Alerts Feature Uses Push Intelligence to Provide Hotels With a Competitive Advantage in Account-Based Sales
KNOWLAND | September 27, 2023
Enhanced functionality delivers at-a-glance actionable data directly to sales team inboxes ARLINGTON, Va. — Sept. 27, 2023 — Knowland, the world’s leading provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality, announced Account Alerts, an enhancement to its core platform. The delivery of automated email alerts once a day helps sales teams save time, stay informed, and react early to revenue opportunities. Consolidated email notifications will be pushed to the user anytime recent account activity matches the individual filters set by the user. Today’s analytics platforms focus heavily on pull intellige...
Europe Expects Bumper Year for MICE Travel According to MMGY Global’s Latest Portrait of European Meeting and Convention Travel Report
MMGY Global | August 24, 2023
In-person meetings are back for Europe, hotels and hotel conference rooms are seeing a revival, and sustainability considerations are on the rise Leading integrated travel, tourism and hospitality marketing agency MMGY Global exclusively reveals key industry insights in the latest Portrait of European Meeting and Convention Travel report. With key research conducted by the MMGY Travel Intelligence team who specialise in custom market research for the travel and tourism industry, the comprehensive study provides valuable findings on the MICE industry. The report – created in partnership with IMEX and MMGY Hills Balfour, sponsored by sev...
Los Angeles Leads in Meetings and Events Volume for July, According to Knowland
Knowland | August 17, 2023
National Associations led key meeting industries in top three markets ARLINGTON, Va. — Aug. 17, 2023 — Knowland, the world’s leading provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality, reports Los Angeles-Long Beach moved up to the lead spot in the U.S. over Chicago for July 2023. This is the first time this year that the Los Angeles market took the lead in event volume. Overall U.S. meeting and event volume for July 2023 was up 22.1 percent over July 2022. This data is sourced from Knowland’s sales intelligence platform designed to help hoteliers build and protect a hotel’s revenue base. With an in...
The Art of Communication: Are We Still In This Together?
Gary Hernbroth | July 6, 2023
By Gary Hernbroth “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” ― George Bernard Shaw Are you as frustrated hearing about “poor communication” as I am? I can’t think of a coaching client or organization I’ve worked with that didn’t have the area of achieving better communication at or near the top of its list of concerns. Adding to that, we heard a constant dose of the battle cry “We’re in this together!” from many different places in the industry when the Covid-19 pandemic was raging. Considering that so much of our ongoing communication between buyers and sellers still...
Amadeus and Knowland Unveil Comprehensive Hospitality Group & Business Performance Index
Knowland | June 27, 2023
First-of-its-kind market monitor combines hotel and corporate booking data with meeting and events insights to deliver new benchmark of industry performance in the United States [Arlington, VA] [Portsmouth, NH] June 27, 2023 – Group business is critical to hotel recovery and for Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) and Convention & Visitor Bureaus (CVBs) looking to attract visitors. This is why Amadeus, a global leader in hospitality technology, and Knowland, a global provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality, are expanding their partnership to deliver new data insights that will allow the i...
Blackstone Completes Acquisition of Cvent for $4.6 Billion
Cvent | June 15, 2023
TYSONS, VA – June 15, 2023 – Cvent Holding Corp. (“Cvent”), an industry-leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider, today announced the completion of its acquisition by an affiliate of private equity funds managed by Blackstone (“Blackstone”) for $8.50 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $4.6 billion. The transaction, which was previously announced on March 14, 2023, includes a significant minority investment from a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and participation from existing stockholder Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”). As a resu...
Knowland Now Available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace
Knowland | June 15, 2023
OPERA Sales and Event Management integrates with the Knowland Platform, boosting data access and sales efficiency for global customers ARLINGTON, Va. — June 15, 2023— Knowland, the world’s leading provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality and a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced the Knowland platform is available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace and will enable integration with the Oracle Hospitality OPERA Sales and Event Management sales and catering management application. Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a centralized repository of enterprise applications offered by Oracle and Orac...
Cvent Announces Top Meeting Destinations and Top Meeting Hotels in North America for 2023
Cvent | May 24, 2023
The highly anticipated annual Top Lists, published for the first time since the pandemic, spotlight top-performing group business hotels and sought-after meeting destinations TYSONS CORNER, Va.--May 24, 2023--Cvent, an industry-leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider, today released its lists of the Top Meeting Destinations and Top Meeting Hotels for meetings and events worldwide. These lists – which are broken out regionally by North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East & Africa – were compiled based on sourcing activity through the Cvent Supplier Network, one of the world’s largest venue...
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