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Orchid Awarded Convention Housing Services from SAE International Through 2016

Posted on Tue, Dec 18, 2012 @ 01:33 PM

Salt Lake City, UT - Press Release

Orchid Event Solutions (OES) has been awarded a multi-year agreement to be the official convention housing service provider for SAE International for over 10 technology events annually through 2016.  Combined these meetings represent over 10,000 hotel room nights booked and over $1.7 million dollars in hotel room night revenue for the destination hoteliers annually.

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World Congress is SAE International's largest event and is attended by more than 9,000 Engineers, Industry Executives, Academics, Government & Military Officials and Consultants, as well as 150 Exhibitors from 45 countries.

"Orchid's use, understanding and implementation of Passkey's GroupMAX ME systems and features have streamlined a custom convention housing process which aids in maximizing our contracted room blocks.  Orchid provides SAE International a custom web site, eMarketing services and dashboard reporting.  Orchid's convention housing room block management combined with providing our attendees' excellent customer service and continuity year after year is why we are pleased to extend our partnership through 2016."
Cindy Cavanaugh
Event Buyer, SAE International

"Orchid is dedicated to being a valued partner.  We have had the pleasure of being the official convention housing service provider to SAE since 2004.  This stands as a testament to our commitment to providing the highest level of customer service to our clients and their attendees."
Tina Stark
Director of Sales, Orchid Event Solutions

SAE International:
SAE International is a global association of more than 133,000 engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries. SAE International's core competencies are life-long learning and voluntary consensus standards development. SAE International's charitable arm is the SAE Foundation, which supports many programs, including A World In Motion® and the Collegiate Design Series™.

Tags: Online Event Registration, On-site Event Registration, Passkey GroupMAX ME, Convention Housing Management Services, Convention Housing Services, Convention Hotel Room Block, Exhibitor Housing Services

Convention Housing: Greater Palm Springs CVB Teams up with Orchid

Posted on Wed, Dec 12, 2012 @ 02:16 PM

An average of 350 days of sunshine per year and a thriving hospitality industry has solidified Greater Palm Springs as an ideal meeting location for event planners. To enhance benefits for meeting planners, the Greater Palm Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) has teamed with Orchid Event Solutions - utilizing Passkey's GroupMAX hotel booking technology - to offer comprehensive full service convention housing management to its client base.

Following an extensive RFP and review process, Palm Springs selected Orchid Event Solutions as the official housing convention housing service provider for the Greater Palm Springs area, due largely to its employment of Passkey's GroupMAX technology.

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"Orchid Event Solutions is among the largest users of Passkey's GroupMAX, a system that planners everywhere know and trust; that made Orchid the obvious choice for us," said Robert R. Osterberg, director of convention sales and services, Greater Palm Springs CVB. "Using these tools, we can now provide superior housing services to clients and hotels alike, placing us on the same level as major destinations."

"The Greater Palm Springs CVB's recent brand launch and new direction promotes an 'oasis' concept for its nine distinctive cities, focusing on their unification into a single destination," Osterberg said. "This partnership promises to enhance our brand and the meeting experience for meeting planners and attendees by providing an easy and seamless booking experience throughout the destination. Orchid and GroupMAX's combined housing and marketing toolset not only helps to increase attendance and hotel bookings but helps to market the destination, our local attractions, hotels and restaurants. This, in turn, delivers greater economic value to the Palm Springs community."

GroupMAX provides event attendees with the convenience of online hotel booking, and automates inventory tracking and reporting for meeting planners and hotels. Reservations are seamlessly transferred into a hotel's central reservation system, reducing potential errors and labor costs associated with manual data entry.

"Working with the Greater Palm Springs CVB and their hotel community has been a great experience for our team. As a major user of Passkey's GroupMAX tool, we are confident of our ability to drive attendance and bookings for their events and pleased that our services can contribute to the success and growth of their community," said Tina Stark, director of sales, Orchid Event Solutions.

Greater Palm Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau
The Greater Palm Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) is a Joint Powers Authority that serves as a coordinating agency for sales, marketing and promotional efforts aimed at potential tourism, corporate, incentive and convention group markets. The CVB is dedicated to a program of work to benefit and promote the hospitality industry in the member cities in Riverside County, which include Palm Springs, Desert Hot Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, La Quinta, Indio and Coachella.

Passkey International, Inc.
Passkey (www.passkey.com) is the travel industry's de-facto standard hotel booking technology for meetings and events.  The Company's cloud-based platform, GroupMAX ME, is used by thousands of hotels, destinations and meeting planners worldwide to manage the hotel accommodation process for events of every size.  At the heart of GroupMAX ME is the ability for clients to offer event-specific web/mobile booking sites for event attendees to book their hotel rooms online while enjoying multiple stay and upgrade options.  With offices in the US, the UK and Singapore, the Passkey global network now includes over 90% of major US and UK Convention and Visitors Bureaus, as well as a wide range of hotels, casinos, resorts, meeting planners, corporations and meeting management companies.  

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Orchid Awarded Multi-Year Agreement from ASHP for Convention Housing

Posted on Fri, Sep 14, 2012 @ 12:07 PM

Salt Lake City, UT, August 2012 - Press Release
Orchid Event Solutions (Orchid) was awarded a multi-year agreement from American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) to be the official Convention Housing Service provider for ASHP’s largest event’s: the Midyear Clinical Meeting and the Summer Meeting. 

The Midyear Clinical Meeting is attended by more than 20,000 members and over 200 exhibitors from 86 countries.  Combined these meetings represent close to 50,000 room nights booked annually and over $10 million dollars of room revenue for the destination's hoteliers.  

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“Orchid’s professionalism, integrity, and excellence have made them a valued partner of ASHP.  Besides providing excellent housing management, Orchid understands the importance of maintaining quality relationships and providing personalized attention to our exhibitors and attendees.  Orchid’s services are one key to the success and growth of our convention room blocks.”
Fran Lappin Byrnes
Director of Conference and Convention Planning, ASHP.


 
“Orchid is thrilled to continue our long term partnership for convention housing services with ASHP.  Orchid has been the official convention housing service provide for ASHP’s Midyear Clinical Meeting and The Summer Meeting since 2008. We are dedicated to helping ASHP meet their event objectives. “
Tina Stark
Director of Sales, Orchid Event Solutions
 

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists:
ASHP is a national professional organization whose nearly 40,000 members include pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy students who provide patient care services in hospitals, health systems, and ambulatory clinics. ASHP is the only national organization of hospital and health-system pharmacists and has a long history of improving medication use and enhancing patient safety.  ASHP hosts a number of national-level meetings and conferences each year to provide health-system pharmacy practitioners with venues for updating their knowledge, networking with colleagues, enhancing their skills, and learning about the latest health-system pharmacy issues, products and technologies.

Orchid Event Solutions:
Orchid is a full service provider of online event registration and convention housing services with over 20 years of experience.  One of the nation’s leading convention housing services providers, Orchid's focus is to assist event organizers in maximizing their hotel room blocks and minimizing any risk of attrition.  Utilizing the leading hotel booking and management technology, GroupMAX ME by Passkey, Orchid provides event specific web/mobile booking sites, extensive sub block and exhibitor management, in-house customer call center and on-site attendee support. 

Orchid provides customized web/mobile multilingual online event registration services, software, on-site registration support,  secure payment processing, exhibitor registration and exhibit booth personnel allocation, name badge and ticket production, attendance tracking, CEU management and certification, computer and printer rental and lead retrieval services.

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