For Immediate Release
September 10, 2008
Quincy, MA — Passkey, the worldwide leader in online group reservations, today announced that Mohegan Sun, one of the Northeast’s premiere resorts for groups and meetings located in southeastern Connecticut, has selected its industry-leading reservation solution. Leveraging Passkey, Mohegan Sun will seize the huge market opportunity for group meetings by delivering meeting planners the tools they require to more successfully plan and execute events at this world-class facility.
With Passkey, Mohegan Sun will be able to offer every group or meeting its own customized hotel reservation website, where event attendees can make and manage their hotel reservations online, while planners can track hotel block pick-up and reservation status through real-time reports and updates. Reservations made via the Passkey-enabled websites will flow directly to Mohegan Sun’s reservation system. In doing Passkey eliminates the need to re-key data while minimizing book-arounds and attrition and maximizing room block pick-up.
“As a leading meetings and convention facility, it was important to provide our customers with a business tool that enhanced the experience of doing business with Mohegan Sun. Passkey was the easy choice,” said Christopher Perry, vice president, hotel sales & marketing at Mohegan Sun. “Passkey has established itself as THE solution of choice for many of the country's premiere meetings resorts, making it a tool that customers are using and expect you to have. Mohegan Sun considers itself among those elite resorts and felt that Passkey was the one remaining ingredient we needed to give us the complete package to sell to the meetings market.”
Mohegan Sun features 1,200 luxury guest rooms, over 60 shops and restaurants and more than 100,000 square feet of function space accommodating up to 5,300 people. The function space includes the 38,000 square-foot Uncas Ballroom, which is complemented by 30,000 square feet of floor space within the Mohegan Sun Arena. The facility also includes 19 individual meeting rooms that can accommodate from 16 to 240 people, allowing it to house group events of all sizes. An additional 11,000 square feet of meeting space will be added to the ongoing multimillion dollar Project Horizon expansion set for completion fall 2010.
“Mohegan Sun has created a true world-class meeting facility and we are excited that they have chosen to make Passkey a key part of the package they deliver to their meeting planner customers,” said Greg Pesik, president and CEO, Passkey. “With Passkey in place, Mohegan Sun delivers planners a complete solution that allows them to operate with greater efficiency, which ultimately results in heightened business success for both the facility and the planners and superior attendee satisfaction.”
“Mohegan Sun is always looking for opportunities that put us on the leading edge of technology and make the experience a “wow” not only for our meeting customers, but for our employees as well,” adds Perry.