MeetingsCentral.com Now Booking Groups at Hotels Around The World

Event Planning Site Now Offers Hotels in 20+ Countries, Same Great Planning Tools

Dallas (PRWEB) July 23, 2005 -- MeetingsCentral.com, the site that offers live group hotel bookings at Hotels.com low rates, announced today that the site now offers group bookings in more than 20 countries. The addition of international bookings was made at the request of clients interested in continuing their use of the sites free planning tools, even when their meetings were overseas.

Our users like our free tools and they didnt want to go back to the old way of planning their events just because we werent booking hotels in Paris, Rome or Sydney," says CJ Niehoff, Chief Operations Officer for the company. With these new additions, we are able to offer great rates around the world. Our free tools are some of the same planning and marketing tools used by Fortune 500 companies. Our users wanted to book in other parts of the world without having to give up these great tools. We expanded our reach at the request of our users and we plan to continue making changes like this to better serve them."

Site directors maintain that all of the free tools provided to planners booking rooms on MeetingsCentral.com are also provided for International bookings, the same as with bookings in the US. All of the tools are still unlocked with just one room booked and planners booking in other countries have the same option to create an event website, setup online registration forms, create and send email invitations, accept payments online and even print out nametags for everyone. In cases where the planner does not intend to pay for all hotel rooms, attendees are able select and book their own rooms on the planners free event website.

About MeetingsCentral.com

MeetingsCentral.com is a website for meeting and event planners that offers free planning tools, flexible group hotel bookings online and a powerful suite of advanced planning tools, called eTools, designed to help planners manage attendees and market their events. The site was launched in January of 2005 and has rapidly become a planning resource for professional and non-professional planners alike. Events planned on the site include corporate events, family and class reunions, sports travel, weddings and any other type of gathering that requires hotel rooms. Affiliate and co-branded opportunities are also available.

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