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The Passkey's GroupMAX ME is a big progress during the housing management service area. It major effect is promoting the efficiency of management in meeting, convention or event. It makes the meeting management become more professional. LA Tourism managers can organize the conventions and meetings that were more safe, consistent and portable by using GroupMAX ME on their hand. The technology could make participants easily and efficiently find hotel reservations in office. And meeting professionals could be easy to track inventory online. GroupMAX ME could help meeting professionals to avoid an excess of reservation fee because it could directly connect hotel property management system or central reservation system.

The Passkey's GroupMAX ME is a big progress during the housing management service area. It major effect is promoting the efficiency of management in meeting, convention or event. It makes the meeting management become more professional. LA Tourism managers can organize the conventions and meetings that were more safe, consistent and portable by using GroupMAX ME on their hand. The technology could make participants easily and efficiently find hotel reservations in office. And meeting professionals could be easy to track inventory online. GroupMAX ME could help meeting professionals to avoid an excess of reservation fee because it could directly connect hotel property management system or central reservation system.

This article introduces a outstanding group solution, GroupMAX, invented by Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. This solution has improved hotel's group services and boosted revenues and performance. This article explains its advantages from 4 aspects: Guest Online bookings: with the build-in automate function module, GroupMAX has reduced call center costs of Fairmont, and also create a new way to advertise their promotions to customers. Adding unforeseen revenues: GroupMax is also very skillful in targeting potential extra sales. It helps hotels generate more revenue by selling potential customers room upgrades, extended stays and amenity throughout the booking process Self-managed meeting planners: With GroupMAX's live dashboards and reporting tools, planners can have access and edit to information of the meeting anytime. A synchronized data system: GroupMAX data will be synchronized immediately if there is any modification in Fairmont's CRS system. This feature avoid the information delay, keep GroupMAX system stay productive.

As this article mentioned, Sabre Hospitality Solutions and Passkey announced their new cooperation. This new program allows you to book passed from Passkey's GroupMAX platform to the hotel's PMS via Sabre's CRS. The action can benefit many aspects, such as hotels, meeting planners and event attendees around the world. It can track inventory and maximize the revenue better. In my opinion, it can be more convenient for the customers, especially meeting planners. By making use of GroupMAX technology, it increases not only their efficiency for hotels, but also their revenue.

According to the article, the Red Lion Hotel on the River - Jantzen Beach has implemented the GroupMAX online reservation system in order to streamline and simplify event planning for meeting professionals. Planners that choose Red Lion Hotel on the River for their event will be equipped with a powerful set of tools that include various templates and themes, libraries, bundles and customized event websites. The booking process for each event also includes a dedicated social network, which helps drive attendance and extend the event lifecycle, allowing attendees to connect before, during and after the event. An event-centric social networking option dramatically boosts the perceived value of the event. While guests enjoy the convenience of online booking and networking, meeting planners can track the progress of their events via their own set of online dashboards that provide automated email alerts and other tools helping to mitigate the difficulties of managing room blocks and bookings.

The Red Lion Hotel has implemented the GroupMAX online reservation system to streamline and simplify the event planning. For hosting the events and also using the related facilities, Red Lion has became the convention destination. Now GroupMAX may combine the housing management, communications, booking processes and logistics together and working with the hotel. Red Lion has a lot of powerful tools to guarantee the event. Also, the mobile version of booking website can be accessed from other mobile devices. Booking process for each event is more like a social network. The event will present the value. Meeting planners will track the progress of the events through the dashboards that provide automated email alerts. Those things all make sure the events going smoothly.

In this article, InterContinental Hotel Group announces the launch of a new events and meetings booking tool that will be used by 23 of its properties in New Zealand and Australia. A product of Passkey, the GroupMax reservations technology will enable hotels, event planners, and attendees to fully automate their booking processes. GroupMax is completely online and can be used by any standard browser or smartphone. Its suite of tools includes online hotel booking, live event tracking, automated room lists, increased pick-up, and professional e-mail marketing. Of particular interest to event planners, I feel, are the live event tracking, automated room lists, and increased pick-up features. Event tracking enables planners to optimize their room blocks and see where their financial risks are. The automated room lists feature allows planners to personally make adjustments to their room blocks, and to be assured that attendee data is PCI-secure. With increased pick-up, event planners can easily e-mail updates or reminders to attendees and thus have greater knowledge of and control over their room blocks. GroupMax helps event planners to be better informed about past events, etc. and how and where to improve.

IHG is a key user of PASSKEY, a cloud based platform as one of the travel industry's de-facto standard hotel booking technologies for meetings and events. And the GroupMAX hosted entirely on line and provided a seamless way for MICE to book their hotel rooms more efficient and convenient process. The 23 IHG properties in Asian-pacific deploying GourpMAX will be equipped with a suite of tools that insure peace-of-mind and higher levels of service for clients, like online booking, live event tracking, automated room lists, etc.  In my opinion, the Group customers playing an important role day by day, as a trend, hotels cann't have the great advantage by only provide a meeting space but more software combined. 

In the last 5 to 6 years, MGM Resorts Intl. has instituted a new cloud-based booking technology for its Las Vegas properties called GroupMAX. It was initially used as a way to work jointly with group planners for two of the Las Vegas properties but as a result of the technology's success, the software was implemented in other hotels in the Las Vegas area. All in all, this software enables hotels and planners to access all booking information of numerous hotels in a single location. The article states numerous benefits using the GroupMAX technology - which above all increase operating efficiency and profitability. I believe this technology is extremely beneficial to the corporation, especially because of the enormous amounts of group reservations they have annually among their various properties. Though it may be somewhat costly initially, the benefits far exceed any costs the company encounters.

this article talks about the merger between Sabre and Passkey in creating a new system for improved group reservations. this new technology benefits directly meeting planners and hotels by creating an automated system that communicate reservations directly to the property management system. some of the benefits include real-time reports and tracking, ability to maximize attendance and therefore revenue, greater efficiency, and direct communication.

This article is about a new meeting system that IHG launched for meeting and events booking across 23 of its hotels in Australia and New Zealand.It can be used by any standard web browser or smartphone. It is also equipped to handle various unique business needs including multiple types of events and attendees as well as a wide range of booking methods, payment types, languages and currencies. * Online Hotel Booking: It can help to encourage more delegates to book within the block.  * Live Event Tracking: Meeting organisers can optimise their room block contracts.  * Automated Room Lists: it can secure - eliminating the risk associated with transferring private financial detail across email.  * Increased Pick-up: It will help to maximise event traction through automated email reminders which act as an early warning system for delegates and in turn, maximise block traction.  * Professional Email Marketing: hotels are able to leverage GroupMAX's integrated email marketing platform to create new service opportunities which can be communicated to delegates prior to arrival.

To gain a competitive advantage in Vegas, Station Casinos set up a new platform calls GourpMAX for profession and occasional meeting planners. The added ease of use helps planners maximize bookings by accelerating their booking pace, increasing reservations within contracted group blocks and mitigating attrition risk. 28GroupMAX even helps planners with the very granular details of event planning by giving them an easy way to capture individual guest information, such as meal preferences, arrival and departure times, RSVP details and more.

By using an online reservation system to streamline the Red Lion Hotel's event planning needs they have created an online booking and networking system for meeting planners. This system allows them to track their events and managing booking dates/times to avoiding double booking. Planners will have access to online reservations, network of contacts, and tools to set up their events. There is also a mobile component to make reservations that can be accessible from any smartphone at anytime.

This a great feature, meeting planners can communicate with attendees and they on the other hand can manage their stay. It can be a great marketing tool for the hotel as well it provides them the opportunity to up sell, either by room upgrades or extended stays.