Passkey to expand its Asia operations through a joint offering with Info Salons in Greater China
BEIJING, Sept. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the world's largest exhibition IT service providers, Info Salons, and Passkey, the world’s leading provider of group reservation technologies, has announced the official release of the MICE hotel booking service during CIBTM (The China Incentive, Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition) at the China National Convention Center. The expanded global partnership between Info Salons and Passkey provides the most comprehensive MICE hotel booking service in Greater China.
Info Salons officially entered the Greater China market in 2006 and is now serving more than 130 large-scale exhibitions and conferences throughout 2012 in Greater China by providing comprehensive IT services including database management and visitors’ registration. By cooperating with Passkey, Info Salons will be able to integrate Passkey’s GroupMAX system with its online registration systems and become the first technology service company in Greater China that can provide one stop registration and hotel booking services to event organizers in Greater China.
Passkey was founded in 1996 and is now the world's leading hotel group reservation system provider for the exhibition industry. Their cloud-based GroupMAX platform is the most widely used solution of its kind, and by the end of 2012, the Company will process and book more than 25 million group room nights. As of today, Passkey’s market share in the United States and the United Kingdom in the Exhibition Bureau market exceeds 85%, and it will transact more than 5 billion U.S. dollars in hotel room revenues.
Info Salons understanding of the Chinese Market and more specifically the unique requirements of the Chinese MICE business has allowed the Companies to not only combine their respective technologies, but to create a localized, integrated solution. The resulting solution will greatly improve the ease by which meeting planners, guests and hotels are able to manage future exhibitions.
Gu Xuebin, Managing Director of Info Salons Greater China said at a press conference: "After nearly three years of preparation, we are pleased to announce our partnership with Passkey during CIBTM. We can finally provide visitors and delegates with a comprehensive one-stop registration and business travel services solution in Greater China. We are also very honored to help CIBTM become the first tradeshow in Greater China that provides integrated online pre-registration and hotel booking service to its visitors and exhibitors. We sincerely look forward to cooperating with the Convention and Exhibition Centers, hotels, airlines and CVB in Greater China to provide a better MICE business travel services for MICE organizers. "
Greg Pesik, Passkey International’s CEO: "We are very pleased to team up with Info Salons as our global partner as we expand our presence in Asia into Greater China with a solution designed specifically for this market. We recognized how essential having a local partner would be not only to our success, but to the success of our clients. This partnership, as well as the investment in the technology integration will help ensure that the Chinese exhibition organizers, hotels and convention centers can rapidly enhance the level of business travel service they can provide to visitors and delegates.”
About Info Salons China
Info Salons (www.infosalons.com.cn) is the leading event technology, database and registration company throughout Asia, China & the Middle East. With offices in Sydney, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Dubai and London and with over 22 years of experience, Info Salons delivers bespoke software solutions that assist organizers in connecting their buyers and event content to the communities they serve. Info Salons online & mobile applications and professional onsite registration services, deliver exceptional experiences to event attendees.
About Passkey
Passkey (www.passkey.com) is the travel industry's leading hotel booking technology for meetings and events. The Company's cloud-based platform, GroupMAX, is used by thousands of hotels, destinations and meeting planners worldwide to manage the hotel accommodation process for events of every size. At the heart of GroupMAX is the ability for group guests to book their hotel rooms online in event-specific booking websites while enjoying multiple stay and upgrade options. With offices in the US, the UK and Singapore, the Passkey global network now includes over 85% of major US and UK Convention and Visitors Bureaus, as well as a wide range of hotels, resorts, meeting planners, corporations and meeting management companies.
