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A Beginner’s Guide to Group Hotel Planning for Your Company
If you’ve found yourself in the unexpected role of organizing a group trip for your company, don’t worry. Many non-professional organizers like yourself have successfully navigated these waters, and with these tips, you can too!
The Evolution of Group Travel: A New Era of Luxury and Personalization
For event planners tasked with creating high-end events, understanding the latest group travel trends and ways to personalize experiences is paramount. Read this article to see what elements add to the allure of these events.
Hotel Booking for Sports & Team Travel: Tips to Help You Plan Like a Pro
Organizing accommodations for a traveling sports team is no small feat. To help ease the stress and ensure your team’s hotel experience runs smoothly, here are our top tips and tricks for your hotel planning.
Bringing Your Dream Destination Wedding to Life
When it comes to destination wedding planning, having the perfect hotel not only makes your wedding day special, it also creates an unforgettable guest experience. And the planning should be easy, we’ll show you how.
Making Corporate Group Travel a Breeze: Your Hotel Selection Guide
If you're planning corporate group travel, meetings or events, check out this article for our go-to tips for choosing the perfect hotel. We also cover the best way to streamline your hotel sourcing and booking.
5 budget-friendlier alternatives to the most booked U.S. destinations
Looking for a great destination experience that’s easier on your wallet? In this article, we’ve taken 5 of the most popular U.S. destinations booked on GroupSync and found budget-friendlier alternatives offering a similar experience.
Why hotels should embrace instant group booking
Our VP of Reporting, Data and Analytics, Kristi White, makes a strong case for why hoteliers need to embrace Instant Booking, its impact on sales teams, and how hoteliers should take advantage of the opportunity.
Make your next group event less costly and more eco-friendly
For group travel, meetings and events, costs are always a factor to manage. Here we explore ideas that can not only help planners with event costs, but also help towards becoming a little more eco-friendly.
The future of group travel planning is now
There’s a rise among smaller group events that favor convenience and streamlined processes. Our chief customer officer, Tim Flors, shares his views on the group travel industry and how it’s evolving for meeting and event planners.
Omni Hotels & Resorts Expand Instant Booking Capability
Read how Omni Hotels and Resorts is making it easier for meeting and event planners to book group guest rooms directly online by making all their properties available for instant group booking.
Off-the-beaten-path: 5 destinations for an off-season wedding
Just because you’re planning an off-season wedding doesn’t mean you need to compromise on style. We’ve found some destination inspiration for off-season nuptials, with reasons why you should consider these off-the-beaten-path locations.
5 examples when instant group booking makes perfect sense
When is Instant Booking right for your group event? Read our top five personal and professional uses when Instant Booking is the fastest, easiest way to book hotel rooms or meeting space for your group.
RFP Responses – Part 2: How turning down an RFP can still bring in business
We uncover how hoteliers can easily respond to more leads and improve their chances for winning more business in the future, and how technology is improving the way hoteliers do business.
RFP Responses – Part 1: Why hotels should reply to every RFP
Hoteliers know how important group business is to their bottom line. However, on average, 65% of leads are ignored by hoteliers. Here we uncover why these missed opportunities that can have lasting impacts.
5 real-life reasons to book a hotel room block
Booking group hotel reservations for more than ten rooms? You don't have to be a pro to use GroupSync. See our list of the most common real-life events group organizers are booking for.
