Preferred Hotel Group™ Launches PHG Meetings.com

Preferred Hotel Group™, a leading provider of sales and marketing support to independent hotels around the world, announced the launch of PHG Meetings (www.PHGMeetings.com). A comprehensive online RFP management system, PHG Meetings connects corporate sales managers, Global Sales Offices (GSOs), property level sales professionals and meeting planners with one convenient and powerful tool.

PHG Meetings, in partnership with and Elite Meetings International (EMI), creates a seamless 360-degree system that enables all potential meetings professionals involved in the booking process to interact quickly, efficiently and productively. This easy to use website utilizes EMI’s SpeedRFP™ RFP management system, and a search technology platform similar to the one that powers www.EliteMeetings.com

The online portal also fully integrates more than 600 Preferred Hotel Group member hotels with EMI’s SpeedRFP system, which has already been adopted by more than 3,800 meeting professionals worldwide. SpeedRFP users can now simply point their browsers to PHG Meetings and submit their saved RFPs to any of the participating Preferred Hotel Group members in just a few clicks.

“We are excited to launch PHG Meetings, which provides our clients with a fast, efficient and seamless way to search, based on their specific needs and requirements, for the best independent hotels in the world. And, in turn, our member hotels benefit from the most sophisticated web-based sales technology available,” said Craig Jacobs, Senior Vice President, Group Sales, of Preferred Hotel Group.

In addition to providing a search, refine and RFP tool for meeting professionals seeking to book groups with Preferred Hotel Group members, the functionality built into PHG Meetings was designed with the company’s sales team in mind. It provides game-changing operational efficiencies for the company’s global sales team and for Preferred Hotel Group members currently utilizing New market’s Meeting Broker sales and catering system. PHG Meetings will send RFP data directly into their systems, thus alleviating the need to rekey data.

PHG Meetings’ architecture and functionality is based on EliteMeetings.com, allowing users to search for properties by location, hotel name, number of guest rooms, meeting space, or amenities, with the system returning a narrowed number of meeting properties based on search criteria.