Cvent and Choice Hotels Collaborate to Facilitate Instant Meeting Booking

Meetings technology company Cvent this year will enable direct instant booking of small meetings across Choice Hotels International’s franchised hotel portfolio, the companies announced Monday.

The global integration of Cvent’s Instant Book tool within Choice hotels’ booking engine will be available later in the third quarter and will let users find and book room blocks without a traditional request-for-proposals process, the companies said in a statement.

Hotels still joining Choice’s distribution system following the company’s Radisson Hotels Americas acquisitionwill gain access to Cvent Instant Book “soon,” according to the companies. However, all Choice properties are listed on the Cvent Supplier Network.

The news follows Cvent’s integration of group booking provider MeetingPackage’s 6,000 venues within the company’s instant book tool, announced in January, when Cvent representatives alluded to more “expanded integrations” on the horizon for 2023.

Angelique Platas www.businesstravelnews.com