New solution features unprecedented usability and breakthrough total hospitality integration

Lanyon;
Lanyon, Inc. (www.lanyon.com) today announced the availability of Lanyon Meeting & Event Management™, the first meeting and event management solution to be fully integrated with an enterprise supplier strategy, managed through the Total Hospitality Spend Management™ platform.

Utilizing a design approach found on many of the best consumer travel websites, the solution has been specifically designed to close the user experience gap which has prevented first generation meetings solutions from gaining wide enterprise adoption.  Lanyon Meeting & Event Management has been designed to promote adoption through elegant usability and enables a user to process a meeting request, quickly and with minimal training.  Other notable features include:

  • Complete lifecycle budgeting (simple to complex)
  • Completely digitized supplier sourcing  (online RFP, negotiation and contracting)
  • Easy custom event website creation (imbedded content management toolkit)
  • Fully-flexible attendee registration capability (multi session, one to one)
  • Dynamic and fully configurable reporting.
Travel buyers have struggled for decades to integrate their management of transient hotel spend with that of meetings and events. Lanyon has now delivered on this dream and completely integrated the sourcing, management, and reporting of corporate hospitality spend across the enterprise.  As a result, travel buyers gain greater control of their hospitality spend leading to increased incremental savings.

“Lanyon listened to customers as they described common challenges in their use of first generation solutions to manage corporate meetings and events, and designed an entirely new solution which removes these barriers and enables travel buyers to achieve their goals faster, with less effort and at a lower cost,” said Todd Tyler, President & Chief Executive Officer for Lanyon.

While technical integration of transient and hospitality spend is critically important, Lanyon clients also benefit from Lanyon’s 26 years of experience working directly with hospitality suppliers, both with their transient hotel responses and distribution technologies.  In 2010, Lanyon solutions will process accommodation sourcing requests from thousands of direct corporate buyers and/or their designated intermediaries, with a cumulative demand of over $18 billion.

The end result will be much higher adoption, increased control, and greater savings for meetings and event spending.  The new Lanyon Meeting & Event Management solution, along with Lanyon’s easy-to-use reporting capabilities are very powerful, providing travel buyers the tools they need to better understand and control every detail of their meeting and event spend.

To learn more about Lanyon Meeting and Event Management, please contact Michael Boult at mike.boult@lanyon.com.

About Lanyon

For 26 years, Lanyon has been delivering exceptional content distribution technologies to the travel industry. Today, Lanyon is the recognized leader in content management solutions for the global hotel industry, and sourcing and procurement solutions for corporate travel buyers.  From its early success with GDS publishing and productivity tools to its RFP solutions for hotels, consortia and corporations, Lanyon solutions are used globally to reduce data management costs, effectively manage and distribute hotel content, and efficiently connect corporate travel buyers with hospitality suppliers.

Established in 1984 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, many car rental companies, travel management companies, agencies, airlines, and over 80,000 hotels worldwide now use Lanyon for their RFP and content management needs.

Contact

For further information please contact:

Michael Boult
Chief Commercial Officer
Lanyon, Inc.
104 Decker Court, Suite 110
Irving, Texas 75062
Phone: +1 (817) 226-5656
Fax:     +1 (866) 840-9987
mike.boult@lanyon.com

To learn more about Lanyon, visit http://www.lanyon.com