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Starwood offers ability to book meeting space online.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 06-JUN-05 		Format: Online - approximately 956 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide on April 27 announced new online meeting space booking capabilities to book single-day meetings of up to 25 attendees. The service, called Meetings in a Moment, allows buyers to purchase meeting space, food and beverage and audiovisual services online. Currently, 33 hotel properties in Atlanta Chicago. New York. Florida and New England participate, but Starwood product manager Scott Reynolds said the service will expand to approximately 80 properties in major cities by year-end.

The Starwood move is similar, but not identical, to Hyatt Hotels Corp.'s four-year-old online meeting space booking capability (Meetings Today, Aug. 13, 2001). Starwood, however, allows buyers to book meeting space online without booking any guest room nights. Hyatt does not.

Starwood's tool does not allow meeting buyers to contract group guest room blocks, although Reynolds said that feature might be added in the...

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