The Inverness Aligns With Passkey to Gain Group Advantage
Planner gains more control over entire event housing process
DENVER, CO / QUINCY, MA, January 23, 2007. The Inverness Hotel and Conference Center, a premier International Association of Conference Centers (IACC) certified property, managed by Destination Hotels & Resorts, has selected Passkey as its online group reservations system.
Passkey was selected by The Inverness based on their track record as the industry standard for group reservations management, and because of growing planner demand. The hotel is known for providing cutting-edge, flexible solutions to their planners as part of their meeting services package, tailored to the planners' needs.
The Inverness Hotel and Conference Center, a 302 deluxe room property, with 60,000 sq. ft. of meeting space, a PGA Championship golf course, and impeccable 4,500 square foot spa, hosts more than 900 meetings and events per year. With exceptional service and experience in planning events from weddings, corporate meetings, to VIP conferences - whether you are inviting 10 or 1,000 people, the Inverness meeting specialists go out of their way to make every planner's event a tremendous success from start to finish.
"We are in the business of conferences," said Curtis Bova, Assistant General Manager, for The Inverness Hotel and Conference Center. "Being an IACC certified property we continuously need to stay on the leading edge of meetings and conference management to differentiate ourselves. We see Passkey as a perfect alignment to further advance our position as a "Leading Conference Management Property."
Top Reasons Inverness Selected Passkey:
---|Align their customer service levels with evolving customer expectations
---|Ability to effectively market their property offerings prior to attendee arrival, and generate more ancillary revenue
---|Maintain their IACC accreditation standards
---|Gain competitive advantage
---|Increase internal efficiencies and eliminate manual labor-intensive processes
Some of the Passkey benefits for meeting planners include:
---|Customized event web pages for online group reservations
---|24/7 access to real-time pick-up reports
---|On-line management of rooming lists
---|Reduction in rooms booked outside the contracted room block
---|Better pace and pick-up optimization
---|Seamless integration with their preferred registration system
"We are very pleased to partner with The Inverness", commented Greg Pesik, President & CEO for Passkey. "We will be able to deliver immediate benefits that will impact their planners and empower their staff to gain a competitive advantage in the planner market."
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