e-destinACCESS: The Destination Services Technology Solution

Have you gotten a chance to check out some of e-dmc.com's feature highlights?

e-dmc.com is the hospitality industry's newest comprehensive meeting and event planning tool, quoted as an "immediate and dramatic cost and time savings being delivered to meeting planners."

Best of all, e-dmc.com is a free web-based software offered to planners worldwide!

Some of our most useful tools include

- Arrivals & Departures Scheduling
Scheduling and planning multiple group passenger pick up from the airport and taking them to their appropriate hotel or destination has never been easier using e-dmc.com's A's and D's Worldwide. For more info, click here >>

- Event Creation and Scheduling
e-dmc.com makes it easy to create your agenda with its simple platform with a rich menu of updated events to choose from, including tours, receptions, banquets & special events. Whether it's dinner for 5 or a multi-day & multi-event function, e-dmc gives you the tools to make event planning fun and easy. For more info, click here>>

- Automated Managerial Reports
e-dmc.com's detailed and easy-to-navigate reports, necessary to keep track of your business, includes instant program itineraries, program spreadsheets, purchase order reports, cost-to-date summary and much more!

e-destinACCESS (E-DA), an Orange County, Calif.-based company that specializes in software for destination management companies, has officially launched e-dmc.com, its new Web-based DMC service for meeting and event planners, it announced this week.

The free service, which is modeled after a full-service DMC, directly connects meeting planners with meeting suppliers, as well as tools for automating the meeting planning process. Because it has no hidden fees or markups, E-DA says e-dmc.com allows planners to remove "middle-men costs" and save up to 50 percent of their budget, not to mention up to 75 percent of their manpower hours. "It is evident that the meeting industry is a major contributor to our economy," E-DA Chief Software Architect and CEO Wayne W. Beaubien said in a statement, citing U.S. Travel Association data showing that the meetings industry is responsible for 2.4 million jobs, $240 billion in spending and $39 billion in tax revenue. "The potential loss of 2.4 million jobs would be catastrophic to the U.S. economy. That is the significance of e-dmc.com, to provide the tools to boost the meeting industry [...] while being financially responsible." According to E-DA, e-dmc.com allows meeting planners to electronically organize events, create and submit RFPs, manage accounting and billing needs, and automate business processes, error-checking procedures and report production. Because it's free and Web-based, the company suggests that e-DMC will save meeting planners time and money, allowing them to plan meetings from anywhere in the world while shifting more resources away from personnel and towards meeting-enhancing activities like entertainment, spa services, and food and beverage. Concluded Beaubien, "We firmly believe that by introducing our free service, e-dmc.com, we can truly provide a tool within the hospitality and meeting planning business to help rejuvenate the economy and cut excess spending."