Instant Booking for Simple Meetings Goes Mainstream

As instant booking grows in the meetings and events space, winners and losers are quietly emerging. New data from Meetingsbooker.com show hotels may be losing share to alternative venues and co-working spaces. More bookings, as well, are taking place to secure a venue for a matter of hours. It makes sense; most meetings are short and sweet. Yet as more hotels make their event space bookable online, instant booking will move more firmly into the mainstream. Check out the full story below. We've also got a variety of hospitality stories for you this week. Wellness certification is coming to hotels soon, but could add extra confusion to the mix in the process with competing standards. Hilton, meanwhile, launched a new brand last week with a suitably generic name in an attempt to push further into the lifestyle hotel spac