Leonardo Worldwide, the travel industry's leading hotel content management and distribution software provider, and greatEvent, theMaryland-based Real-Time Booking (RTB) platform for events, announced a strategic partnership to simplify and modernize the way hotels, meeting planners and event planners discover, evaluate and book event and meeting spaces.

The partnership integrates Leonardo's rich hotel property content - including images, video, venue descriptions and amenity data - directly into the greatEvent platform, giving planners instant access to accurate, up-to-date venue profiles alongside real-time space availability and booking capabilities. The result is a seamless end-to-end experience that eliminates the fragmented back-and-forth that has long defined the events and group travel industry.

Bringing Real-Time Booking and Rich Content Together

greatEvent's patented RTB platform was built to give event and meeting planners instant visibility into live venue availability and the ability to confirm bookings in minutes - replacing the slow, hone-and-email-driven sales and catering processes that remain standard across the industry. Leonardo's MediaConnect content distribution network, which serves hotels and travel channels globally, complements this capability by ensuring that every venue listed on greatEvent is represented with authoritative, hotel-managed visual and descriptive content.

Together, the two companies are creating a single destination where a planner can find a venue, see its spaces and amenities in rich detail, check real-time availability and book - all without leaving the platform.

"After noticing a gap in the current hospitality space, I decided to create a solution that could offer a more cost-effective and efficient process for event planning," said Dipak Thakker, CEO and Founder of greatEvent. "Partnering with Leonardo means our customer snow have access to the most accurate and complete hotel property content available, alongside the real-time booking capabilities we've built. This partnership directly advances our mission to give planners back their time."

"Leonardo has spent years building the infrastructure that helps hotels tell their story consistently across every channel," said Paul Gillard, President of Leonardo Worldwide."greatEvent is doing something genuinely new in the meetings and events space, and we're excited to bring our content network to their platform. Hotels deserve to have their meeting and event spaces represented as well as their guest rooms - and this partnership helps make that a reality."