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The AI Revolution: Boosting Meeting and Group Revenue Faster and Smarter
(SOURCE: HOTEL MANAGEMENT NETWORK)

Let’s face it: meetings and group bookings are a huge deal for hotels – more than a third (35 percent) of all hotel room nights, in fact.  But despite their importance, the process of handling them has been stuck in time.

While the world around us is moving at the speed of light, hotel sales teams are bogged down by endless emails, RFPs, and hours spent drafting proposals. It’s manual, it’s tedious, and it’s costing hotels valuable time and revenue.

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