Marriott launches event apps

BANGKOK Marriott International Asia Pacific has unveiled its Meetings Imagined and Meeting Services App to the region’s events planners and organisers.
The two digital innovations are intended to assist planners execute successful events.
Meetings Imagined is an online platform modelled on the user-friendly Pinterest.com and the Chinese Huaban.com online forum.
It provides expert tips on everything related to meetings, including networking activities, maximising social media exposure and how to create the right meeting environment.
inside no 6“Marriott International has been studying the way planners interface with hotels when they organise events. We have mapped out the planners’ journey, from the moment they have a need for a meeting, all the way through to how they search, book, plan and design the meeting,” said Marriott International chief aales and marketing officer Asia Pacific, Peggy Fang Roe.
The app will launch across approximately 100 properties throughout Asia Pacific starting this week. It is available in six languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Spanish and Russian.
The Meeting Services App provides real-time connectivity to Marriott for meeting planners and features a wide range of functions, including a chat facility to connect MICE organisers with Marriott’s event teams.
As of this year, the Meeting Services App is available in 20 languages and available at 100 hotels under Marriott Hotels, JW Marriott, Renaissance, The Ritz-Carlton, Autograph Collection and Courtyard by Marriott across the region.

sourced:ttrweekly.com