PRESS RELEASE • AMERSFOORT, March 5, 2024.

Real estate is preparing for a revolution with the launch of Meet Robin. Onemeeting thus offers the answer to years of frustration in real estate, MICE and the hotel industry: lost square meters. Meet Robin is the innovative SaaS solution for real-time online booking and efficient management of meeting and event spaces.

The real estate sector is struggling with declining office rentals, rising interest costs and changing tenant requirements. There are millions of square meters of empty space in the Netherlands, and they cost money. Meet Robin is a SaaS solution that helps real estate owners, project developers and partners to sell vacant m2 as meeting and event spaces.

“It is no longer a question of 'whether' projects have meeting rooms, but how many and how quickly. Meeting rooms will become an integral part of every new multi-tenant and multi-service building in 2024, so the question arises for developers and operators how to deal with this," says Kevin van Grondelle, CCO The Onemeeting Company. “As long as square meters are empty, we should not have any shortages. Everyone benefits from making every m2 profitable: both the owners and the users. Meet Robin arises from and responds to that need for change and improvement.”

“It is absurd that in an age of digitalization we still struggle with booking meeting rooms. We can book tickets, hotel rooms, and even meals online, but for business meetings, locations seem to be stuck with manual work,” said Myrna Hoogendoorn, Chief Platform Officer. “With Meet Robin, locations are connected in real time to the meeting market. The locations that use Meet Robin are ours Connected partners. "

Meet Robin makes it possible to book real-time online meetings and events and has seamless integration with the booking platform Onemeeting.com. Locations that choose Meet Robin use the property management system (Onemeeting System) and the booking platform (Onemeeting.com), making them connected to thousands of meeting bookers. Through Onemeeting.com, meeting & event planners looking for spaces can book with real-time prices and availability at the locations (Connected Partners). The locations do not have to do anything in the booking process. The planner immediately receives a confirmation and the location sees the booking in real time Onemeeting System.

Dynamic prices have been normal for airline tickets and hotel rooms for years: the higher the demand, the higher the price. With Meet Robin, locations can apply dynamic pricing for business meetings on a large scale for the first time. The dynamic pricing and extensive reporting enable locations to adjust their prices based on market demand and occupancy. Not only are these tools being introduced, but Onemeeting is also offering training to support teams in understanding and applying this innovative approach.

Onemeeting System, the property management system that forms the basis of Meet Robin, has been developed with operational efficiency in mind. Every step from first contact, inquiry and booking to after-sales and invoicing is accurately recorded according to a conversion-oriented sales structure. Each department has sub-modules, such as in-house management, day-end closing and individual sales, for correct operational execution.

However, not every location has (enough) in-house staff to, for example, accept reservations from companies that do not yet dare to book online, or to consistently manage accounts receivable for business bookers. Connected Partners can therefore always outsource their tasks to Onemeeting's professional sales, reservations and invoicing teams.

Data security is a top priority for more and more organizations, but correct and efficient compliance with regulations surrounding business meetings proves difficult for many locations. Meet Robin is ISO27001 certified and has extensive security measures in place, allowing Connected Partners to comply with regulations and rely on a secure environment for their data.

Despite the current frustrations in the industry, Onemeeting is optimistic about the future of business meetings. Meet Robin is a powerful tool that will help the industry embrace digitalization and set a new standard for efficiency and innovation.

Onemeeting is the innovative and sustainable intermediary in the meeting industry and helps companies & organizations reduce their meeting costs and CO2 emissions from meetings. With her new product Meet Robin, she strives for a future where manual processes are a thing of the past and where business meetings are organized smoothly and efficiently digitally. As a pioneer in the industry, Onemeeting is determined to make a difference and provide professionals in real estate, facility services, catering, meetings, events and hotels with the tools. Onemeeting searches, compares, books and manages all meeting locations for clients and concludes Green Meeting DEALS for this purpose. In 2019, the company made 25.000 bookings for 3.000+ clients. Onemeeting.com offers 100% Climate Neutral Meetings, has a CSR Register (ISO26000) and is ISO27001 certified. The organization is a Great Place to Work and founder of WCARE.one: a sustainable Movement in the meeting industry.

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More information about Meet Robin can be found at this page.

Kevin van Grondelle | CCO The Onemeeting Company | [email protected]     | +31 (0)641511565

Myrna Hoogendoorn | CPO The Onemeeting Company | [email protected] | +31 (0)652527474

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