Omni Nashville Hotel and Hotel Arts Barcelona Top Prominent Lists
TYSONS CORNER, Va.–Cvent, Inc. (NYSE: CVT), a leading cloud-based enterprise event management company, today released its annual list of top hotels for meetings and events in the United States, according to meeting and event booking activity through its Cvent Supplier Network. In addition, the company announced its inaugural Top 50 Meeting Hotels in Europe. Featuring approximately 240,000 hotels, resorts and special event venues, the Cvent Supplier Network is one the world’s largest and most accurate databases of detailed venue information. Cvent sourced more than $9.8 billion in meetings and events through its marketplace in 2015.
U.S. List Highlights:
Nashville, as in years past, holds two of the top meeting hotels in the U.S., including the top two spots on this year’s list.
Newcomers to the top 100 list include Loews Chicago O’Hare Hotel, the Renaissance Washington, D.C. Downtown Hotel, and Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel & Marina, to name a few.
Major metropolitan areas that stand out among the rest with 10+ hotels making the list include Orlando with 14 hotels, and Chicago and Las Vegas both with 10 hotels. Other major players include Phoenix/Scottsdale with eight hotels on the list, six of which rose in ranking from last year, and Dallas/Fort Worth with six hotels making this year’s list.
View the full 2016 list of Top 100 Meeting Hotels in the U.S.
Europe List Highlights:
In our inaugural list, Barcelona holds two of the top three meeting hotels in Europe.
London tops off the list with seven featured properties, following closely behind are Amsterdam and Barcelona, with six properties each.
View the full 2016 list of Top 50 Meeting Hotels in Europe.
Top 10 U.S. Hotel Properties
Top 10 Europe Hotel Properties
Omni Nashville Hotel – Nashville, TN
Hotel Arts Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center- Nashville, TN
Hilton Prague – Prague, Czech Republic
ARIA Resort & Casino – Las Vegas, NV
Hilton Diagonal Mar Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain
The Venetian and Palazzo Resort, Hotels & Casinos – Las Vegas, NV
Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center – Paris, France
Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center – Grapevine, TX
Hilton London Metropole – London, UK
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel – Denver, CO
Sheraton Frankfurt Airport Hotel & Conference Center – Frankfurt, Germany
Hyatt Regency Chicago – Chicago, IL
InterContinental Vienna – Vienna, Austria
Hyatt Regency Orlando – Orlando, FL
W Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain
Fontainebleau Miami Beach – Miami, FL
DoubleTree by Hilton Amsterdam Centraal Station – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hilton San Diego Bayfront – San Diego, CA
Park Plaza Westminster Bridge London – London, UK
“Group Business is a substantial part of a hotel’s revenue mix, and because of this we continue to see hotels renovating their facilities and improving the amenities they offer to stay competitive in this global industry,” said Kevin Fliess, vice president of product marketing for Cvent’s Hospitality Cloud. “We have seen impressive group business volume among the top hotels this year in both Nashville and Barcelona. These cities not only have one, but multiple hotels making an appearance on our Top 10 list, which showcases their ability to create prominence among a large global audience of meeting and event planners.”
Cvent evaluated hotel properties that generated business through the Cvent Supplier Network from January 2015 through December 2015. The properties were ranked according to various criteria, including total requests for proposals (RFPs), awarded RFPs, total room nights, awarded room nights, major metropolitan area (MMA) market share, conversion rate, and the hotel's unique profile visits in the Cvent Supplier Network. The criteria are designed to provide the most accurate reflection of the top meeting hotels in the U.S. and Europe.
“Nashville is still booming and we had a great year hosting a large variety of meetings and events,” said Dan Piotrowski, general manager, Omni Nashville Hotel. “It is an honor to be recognized by Cvent for all the hard work put forth by our associates to ensure every meetings group has a successful event when experiencing the Music City.”
The Cvent Supplier Network contains listings of hotels and other venues in more than 175 countries that can be searched and filtered based on approximately 200 meetings and events attributes. The Cvent Supplier Network is part of the Cvent Hospitality Cloud, which provides hotels, CVBs and other event venue owners, solutions to effectively generate qualified demand for meetings and events, manage that demand more efficiently, and measure group business performance.
For more information regarding the Cvent Supplier Network, visit www.cvent.com/rfp/hotels.
