Leading Group Sales Launches Leading Connections
NEW YORK, NY, March 10, 2009 - Leading Group Sales has just launched the Leading Online Meeting Planner to give event organizers a distinctive edge in helping their clients choose the ideal venues for their conferences and social functions.
This innovative, interactive tool provides multi-dimensional views of a hotel's meeting facilities, as well as floor plans and capacities, and illustrates where each room is located in the hotel, relative to the other meeting spaces. Clicking on an accompanying equipment menu enable the planner to see the positioning of windows, doors, pillars or other stationary fixtures, lighting and power sources, and technical equipment. Another menu provides illustrations of different set-up configurations: banquet, cocktail, ballroom, u-shape, theater, etc.
Thorsten Meier, managing director worldwide of Leading Group Sales, said, "We are very excited to be able to offer our customers this revolutionary, state-of-the-art tool to help them best serve their clients. Its unique capabilities allow them to better 'visualize' the attributes of the specific facilities, enabling them to make the best selections possible."
He continued, "In an upcoming phase of development, the LOMP site will also allow planners to manipulate various seating and furniture-placement options, affording them a virtual walk-through of a property and its function space."
In conclusion, Mr. Meier noted, "Our goal in providing our clients with the latest tools and technology is to give them the most complete information possible on all of the members of Leading Hotels that have banquet and meeting capabilities, and to help them create the perfect event or conference."
For more information, please contact:
Thorsten Meier
Managing Director Worldwide
Leading Group Sales
Tel: 212-525-5820
thorsten.meier@leadinggroupsales.com
www.leadinggroupsales.com
About The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd.
The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd. is the prestigious luxury hospitality organization representing more than 450 of the world's finest hotels, resorts and spas, and is the operator of www.lhw.com and www.lhwspas.com - the online sources for your luxury lifestyle. As the largest international luxury hotel brand, the firm maintains offices in 24 major markets across the globe.
Since 1928, the company's reputation for excellence derives from the exacting levels of quality it demands of its members, each of which must pass a rigorous, anonymous inspection covering hundreds of meticulous criteria spanning from product to behavioral standards. This set of standards is the most stringent in the industry.
High resolution images and press information on individual member hotels are available for downloading at www.lhw.com/press. For reservations and information, visit www.lhw.com or telephone toll-free from the USA, Canada, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, (800) 223-6800.
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