News & Articles - RFP

  • Marriott

    Marriott Partners With Groups360

    2023/01/27

      Marriott International and Groups360 announced the launch of Instant Booking for Marriott’s portfolio of hotels in the United States and Canada. Marriott International is the first brand to have a direct integration with Groups360 to offer the “Instant Book” functionality for both guest rooms and meeting space at scale on GroupSync Marketplace, providing planners with a streamlined booking process at the click of a button. As the meetings and events landscape becomes more dynamic, many planners are currently challenged…

    Breaking News

  • contract RFP

    Sport Tourism Canada Issues RFP

    2023/01/19

      Sport Tourism Canada (STC) has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) to provide event planning and management services to support the coordination and delivery of the 2023 Sport Events Congress (SEC23). SEC23 is scheduled to occur June 6-8, 2023, in Richmond, British Columbia, at the Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel and the Vancouver Airport Marriott. The RFP will be available for interested parties to make submissions until Friday, January 27, 2023 by 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. STC is hosting SEC23 in partnership with Richmond…

    Breaking News

  • Helpful tips to answer event planning questions

    2017/09/27

    As an event planner, I wear many hats, mostly because of a bad hair day (already, I digress…). I manage a number of different areas within the events industry and work to provide exceptional service to my clients and build long lasting positive relationships with my suppliers. I have planned several large scale travel programs, and I tend to hear the same questions from my clients – the groups who are putting on the events. If you are a planner…

    Event Operations, Event Registration, The Business of Meetings

  • Seven best practices for success with eRFPs

    2016/02/08

    By Mike Mason eRFP technology has made fundamental changes in the way meeting planning works. The technology was designed to let planners send meeting requests to hotels in a couple of clicks and magically receive complete proposals back in a few hours. In reality, though, the technology that was supposed to save hours of work is now the No. 1 reason why planners are not receiving timely and complete proposals from hotels. The problem with eRFPs is that they have…

    Event Budgeting, Event Operations

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