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September 2010 - Industry Rivals Unite to Offer Enhanced Service more

venuedirectory.com has forged a strategic alliance with the creators of BookIT software, Hoge 100, with the aim of becoming the ‘go to’ source for booking software within the meetings and events industry.

The alliance will see venuedirectory.com market and sell the BookIT software from Hoge 100, which is established as the cutting edge booking tool for the large scale meetings and events agencies. In addition, venuedirectory.com will continue with the rollout of its own online booking tool GRATIS and sees the BookIT tool as complementary to its existing systems.

September 2010 - Best Innovation Award for venuedirectory.com more

venuedirectory.com, provider of the UK’s most effective online venue finding and booking software, has been awarded the Best Innovation Award at the Best Business Awards 2010.

Innovation is always at the heart of venuedirectory.com’s approach to delivering return on investment for its clients. The company consistently seeks to improve and expand the services it provides and development is continuous.

April 2010 - venuedirectory.com makes meeting and event bookings easier more

venuedirectory.com upgrades online services

Online venue data market leader, venuedirectory.com, has upgraded some of the features on its extensive venue finding website (www.venuedirectory.com) in order to further enhance the user experience and increase returns for venues.

February 2010 - Q Hotels joins venuedirectory.com more

Venue data industry leader venuedirectory.com is proud to announce the addition of award-winning hotel group QHotels to its database of 8,250 venues, utilised by the most powerful and influential event buyers in the UK.

January 2010 - JP Events Ltd becomes latest GRATIS user more

JP Events Ltd becomes the 21st agency for the venuedirectory.com business system GRATIS.

Joanne Penney took the decision to improve efficiency and last week her conference agency JP Events Ltd, based in Leeds, joined a growing number of UK full service venue finding agents to hold a license for venuedirectory.com’s business data, tracking and accounts system GRATIS.

Case Study - Absolute Corporate Events and venuedirectory.com more

Michael Begley, Managing Director of venuedirectory.com, had for a long time recognised Angie Mason’s achievements and good standing within the Meetings, Incentive, Conference and Events industry (MICE).

Her role as Director of Absolute Corporate Events in Dorset complements other prominent highlights of Angie’s career to date as a previous chairman of the Hotel Booking Agents Association (HBAA) and recent board member of Meeting Professionals International (MPI). Angie and Michael’s mutual respect of each other’s business ethics, previous working relationship and enthusiasm for the events and hospitality business, inspired Michael to approach Angie with a proposal for a new and innovative meeting and event system. A decision which according to Angie “Just made good business sense.”

Case Study - venuedirectory.com and Barceló UK more

"venuedirectory.com generates Barceló UK in excess of £4million of genuine, qualified enquiries in just 18 months."

It's a bold statement - read on to find out more......

Barceló UK had initially thought of venuedirectory.com as “just another third party web site”.  But when Sales Director, Carol Whitney, sent hard facts, statistics and campaign proposals – Barceló UK decided to investigate further and invited them in.

They were upfront with venuedirectory.com about the challenge –

‘How can you demonstrate tangible performance for Barceló’s portfolio of twenty one 4-star hotels with 220 meeting rooms for up to 600 delegates?”

January 2009 - MIA AGM and Annual Conference 2009 more

The MIA’s AGM and Annual Conference has been hailed a great success by its organisers after attracting more than 130 industry professionals. The one-day conference entitled Marketing and Leadership: ‘Strategies for Challenging Times’ was held at Church House Conference Centre in Westminster on Monday 26th January. Delegates were a mix of both MIA members and non-members from across the meetings industry, all keen to pick-up tips and advice on how drive their businesses forward in the current challenging trading environment. The conference followed the MIA’s AGM, where the council for the year was elected.

October 2008 - Gratis Online goes live more

venuedirectory.com launches Gratis, a new bespoke online booking and customer communication software system for agents.

This advanced system dramatically improves the communication between the client, agent and venue, making the life of a professional meeting planner considerably easier and much more efficient.

October 2008 - Meetings Review interview more

venuedirectory.com announces the launch of new venue finding services in Richard John's video interview with Managing Director, Michael Begley at Event UK.

November 2007 - venuedirectory.com buys click4venues.com more

venuedirectory.com announced today the successful purchase of its closest rival, click4venues.com, which is also a publisher of electronic conference venue data.

Although only established just over 2 years ago, click4venues.com has quickly become a firm favourite with both corporate and agency clients, offering an alternative to venuedirectory.com which has been the dominant force in the market since 1993.