Puerto
Rico Smooth Meeting University, the meeting and convention industry’s
first centralized education portal, was developed with Questex
Hospitality+Travel, the owners and publishers of Travel Agent, one of
the most respected travel trade publications in the industry.
Through
a series of online courses,
Puerto Rico Smooth Meeting University provides meeting planners with
the latest and most comprehensive industry education available on
hosting a meeting in Puerto Rico. After completing a series
of courses on topics such as meeting hotels, the Puerto
Rico Convention Center Pedro Rosselló, history and culture, golf,
shopping, dining and nightlife, planners earn a Puerto Rico Smooth
Meeting Specialist designation, complete with a rewards component. In
addition to detailed lesson plans, Puerto Rico Smooth Meeting
University also provides detailed room layouts, an online RFP form
and other helpful tools for planning a group program on the island.
“Puerto
Rico Smooth Meeting University offers busy planners a thorough
understanding of Puerto Rico as a meetings destination and a
centralized location for planning and booking tools,” state Neil J.
Mullanaphy, acting president & CEO, Puerto Rico Convention
Bureau. “We are confident that planners completing the series of
online courses will not only have superior knowledge about
Puerto Rico’s sophisticated meetings offerings, but will also
understand the benefits of bringing their groups to this world-class
destination.”
Meeting
planners who want to attend Puerto Rico Smooth Meeting University can
visit www.meetinguniversity.com to create a login and ID. Planners
browse course and reward programs via the lesson plan landing page.
Going through the detailed lesson plan, planners check their
knowledge in preparation for the final exam.
In
addition to the educational component, planners are able to submit
PRFs, print room layouts, note A/V requirements and utilize other
tools to plan the perfect meeting in Puerto Rico. After becoming a
Puerto Rico Smooth Meeting Specialist, planners can obtain rewards
from suppliers, as well as collaborate with other meeting planners
via a set of available social media tools.
“We
saw a clear need for an online professional development resource for
the MICE Market and we sought a partner who shared our commitment to
training meeting planners through dynamic content offerings and
greater flexibility for how and when they educate themselves,”
remarked John McMahon, executive vice president, Questex
Hospitality+Travel. “The Puerto Rico Smooth Meetings Specialist
course and Meeting University are a big step to evolving the way
meeting planners obtain the tools and knowledge they need to meet
varying customer requests worldwide while shortening the sales and
implementation cycles.”
