The Netherlands-based venue sourcing and strategic meetings
management platform Meetingselect has released a "distancing seating"
solution in response to new Covid-19 safety regulations and practices, the
company announced. Meetingselect collaborated with major hotel chains to
develop the new algorithm, which calculates venues' seating-per-meeting
requirements based on countries' distancing policies, it said.
In the US, the tool also can apply state or city-level
policies, when known, but otherwise uses six feet between attendees as its
distancing measurement. Venues also can adjust when changes need to be
implemented, the company said.
Depending on a planner's preferred meeting set-up – including
U-shape, boardroom, theatre or classroom – and social distancing requirements,
the tool will automatically suggest venues and meeting rooms that comply. The
software also can indicate the maximum capacity of a planner's desired meeting
room. The feature is available immediately.
Meetingselect features a database of more than 245,000
conference hotels and over 500,000 meeting spaces in more than 100 countries.