MGM Resorts International Deploys GroupMAX Across Las Vegas Portfolio

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) July 21, 2011 In a key step toward rising their competitive edge in the amount a single meetings and events industry in the globe Las Vegas, MGM Resorts International (NYSE  MGM) announced nowadays the deployment of Passkeys GroupMAX group booking technologies across all of its Las Vegas hotels. &#13 With a collection of 11 world-renowned resorts on the Las Vegas Strip, it is essential we offer our clients with a booking engineering that exceeds their expectations, stated Richard Harper, executive vice president of sales and marketing and advertising for MGM Resorts International. Passkeys steady and verified results give us a strategic benefit in delivering an exceptional and be concerned-totally free hotel booking encounter to our meeting planners and guests. &#13 In 2005, MGM Resorts properties Mandalay Bay and Luxor started making use of Passkeys GroupMAX as a way to collaborate with planners. Soon after experiencing a impressive return on investment and reliable benefits, rolling out GroupMAX at the other nine Las Vegas properties was only a matter of time, in the end developing the first single destination, multi-property business to manage group reservations from a central area. Now, meeting planners have the industrys major group reservation technologies at their fingertips, no matter which MGM Resorts home they select to stay at in Las Vegas. &#13 In Might 2011, MGM Resorts hosted the annual JCK Las Vegas display, offering the occasions organizer, Reed Exhibitions, the GroupMAX system to handle the tradeshows housing operations. &#13 Ron Zobel of Reed Exhibitions shares his experiences &#13 This was the first time we had used Passkeys GroupMAX method to manage an total occasions hotel booking approach with 39 attendee sorts distributed across 14 hotels sub-blocks and room types, the JCK Las Vegas shows occasion housing was particularly complicated. With the assist of the reservation experts at Mandalay Bay, our contracted room blocks picked up more than 40,000 room nights, with north of 60 percent of reservations booked on the web. GroupMAX helped make this method simple, painless and predictable. &#13 With Passkeys GroupMAX group reservation suite, MGM Resorts can now offer each event a professional booking internet site exactly where guests can quickly make their reservations online from any web browser or mobile device, whilst meeting planners can access vital occasion information from live dashboards, helping them track room block productivity, run proactive reports and manage rooming lists. &#13 Reservations created through GroupMAXs booking sites directly transfer to MGM Resorts internal reservation method, eliminating the time-consuming activity of manually re-keying information or the risks inherent in data transfer. The newfound efficiency not only accelerates booking pace, but also increases reservations within contracted blocks, helping maximize bookings for the event and mitigating the planners attrition threat, all although providing elevated service ranges to both planners and guests. &#13 Notably, GroupMAXs cloud-based architecture is the industrys only program that lets meeting planners track their occasion information across many hotels and venues, helping them run comparable analyses and predictive designs that boost their event accomplishment metrics. &#13 Greg Pesik, president and CEO of Passkey, said, "The deployment of GroupMAX across MGM Resorts Las Vegas portfolio is testament to the increasing importance of technologies as a competitive benefit among hotels. The centralized housing process creates operational consistency, enabling properties to quickly knowledge benefits, each from an economic and client satisfaction outlook." &#13 MGM Resorts 11 Las Vegas properties utilizing the GroupMAX technique are ARIA, Bellagio, Vdara, Macau Accomodation [l]