Bizly Launches Mobile App to Offer On-Demand Bookings of Small Meetings Rooms at Leading Hotels

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. February 10, 2016

(New York, NY) - Bizly, the mobile app for on-demand booking of small, private meeting rooms at leading hotels, has launched in New York with plans to be across the U.S. in its first year. Bizly has signed exclusive deals with a curated selection of hotel brands including the Ace Hotel, Bryant Park Hotel, Mandarin Oriental, Standard Hotels and more. Responding to an increasingly global and mobile workforce, Bizly aggregates and sells meeting rooms at hourly rates starting as low at $75 per hour and negotiated rates at up 75% savings for same-week bookings. Bizly is available for free download on iOS.

“Booking full-service meetings has always been a painful process involving multiple phone calls, email exchanges, haggling around pricing and signing paper contracts. We have created a better way,” said founder and CEO Ron Shah. “We go beyond desks and chairs, we are focused on delivering experiences. With Bizly, enterprises can be confident that they will always get consistently high-quality meeting experiences that boost productivity and moral. Our exclusive focus on hospitality inventory makes all the difference versus any other solution available today.”

The U.S. Labor Department projects that over 60% of the workforce will be working remotely over the next four years. This trend has intensified the need for companies to procure on-demand work and meeting spaces. “Hotels are the best places to meet this need since they are staffed 24/7 and fulfill the 'duty of care' enterprises require,” added Shah. “Bizly is at the intersection of the $100 billion mobile enterprise market, the $60 billion global co-working market and the $565 billion corporate meetings market.”

Bizly provides a single marketplace to transparently compare brands, prices and amenities across leading hotels. Users can book the meeting in just a few clicks - including the ability to order from pre-negotiated food and drink options, send meeting invites and book Uber from within the app. All guests receive a VIP boarding pass with critical on-site information, such as Wi-Fi password and onsite contact info, and a fast track to the check-in process.

On the back-end, Bizly has created a simple portal to link hotels together and optimize meeting room inventory and pricing with an aim to become the global distribution system for meeting spaces across the hospitality industry.
Bizly currently focuses on meetings under 40 people and booking windows of 30 days or less. This approach delivers the biggest saving to users and serves as lead generation for hotels to attract more consistent and localized corporate clientele on a direct basis, a big difference from the OTA approach.

Bizly is available on iOS with plans to launch a web booking interface and Android app later this year. Visit bizly.com and follow online @GetBizly.