CWT Meetings & Events partners with Meetingsbooker.com for new booking platform

Summer launch scheduled for UK & Ireland small meetings business initiative

London, 25 May, 2017 – CWT Meetings & Events, a division of global travel management company Carlson Wagonlit Travel, today announced the summer 2017 launch of a new meeting room booking platform for the UK & Ireland. Powered through a new partnership with Meetingsbooker.com, the world’s leading meeting room marketplace, the new platform has been designed specifically to greatly expand CWT Meetings & Events’ offer in the small meetings business.

“We want to simplify and enhance the booking experience for our customers,” said Ian Cummings, Vice President, CWT Meetings & Events EMEA. “In partnering with Meetingsbooker.com on this new platform we will not only do that, but we will also save them time and money – a true win/win solution.”

Ciaran Delaney, CEO Meetingsbooker.com added, “We are helping the world meet by making it easier to book great venues. Like us, CWT Meetings & Events has identified a growing client need for a faster way to book favorite venues. We look forward to delivering this for them and further driving the digitalization of meeting bookings in business travel.”

Further details of CWT Meetings & Events’ new meeting room booking platform for the UK & Ireland will be announced at its formal launch in due course.

About CWT Meetings & Events (www.cwt-meetings-events.com)

CWT Meetings & Events is the meetings and events division of Carlson Wagonlit Travel business portfolio, the world’s leading business travel and meetings management company.

About Carlson Wagonlit Travel (www.carlsonwagonlit.com)

Companies and governments rely on us to keep their people connected. We provide their travelers with a consumer-grade travel experience, combining innovative technology with our vast experience. Every day we look after enough travelers to fill almost 200 Boeing 747s and around 100,000 hotel rooms, and handle 95 corporate events. We have more than 18,000 people in nearly 150 countries, and in 2016 posted a total transaction volume of US$ 23 billion.

Follow us on Twitter @CarlsonWagonlit and LinkedIn.

About Meetingsbooker.com (www.meetingsbooker.com)

Meetingsbooker.com is an online booking portal for meeting and conference rooms that allows event organizers to pick their favorite venues online, request proposals and hear back from venues within 24 hours. It lists over [70,000] rooms in hotels, co-working spaces, business centers and other unique venues in 134 countries around the world. Twitter @MeetingsBooker