technology partners

who we work with

SMI is proud to work with these valued Technology Partners to bring the most advanced, integrated sales and marketing solutions to the destination marketing industry.

You only get one chance to make a first impression! Cendyn has hundreds of hotels and companies worldwide using their electronic proposal delivery system. It offers exquisite graphics, rich content, valuable resource documents and a first class impression. With over 130 years of hospitality industry experience on their team, they know what type of client presentation is right for you. Add in ease of use, client usage tracking and a huge WOW factor--your sales will close faster than ever.

iMobile3 delivers rich mobile 2.0 experiences for some of the most recognizable brands on the planet. The company is transforming the DMO industry with its Skyline™ platform. iMobile3 also delivers powerful mobile platforms designed for multi-platform push notification campaign management (Propeller™), enterprise mobile device management (Director™), line-busting mobile POS with payment (MobilePay™), and augmented reality (Appear™) solutions. For more information, visit www.iMobile3.com.

MICROS eCommerce, a subsidiary of MICROS Systems, Inc., is dedicated to assisting the travel industry with exceeding their online marketing goals and specializes in hotel Internet marketing and destination Internet marketing. Serving an extensive portfolio of clients worldwide, MICROS eCommerce combines its industry knowledge and e-business expertise to help clients maximize the online channel by offering multi-language websites, a vast network of internationally based strategic linking partners, email and pay-per-click marketing campaigns, tailored to all international markets, custom social media solutions, and websites optimized for major search engines around the world.

Informz ( www.informz.com ) is an integrated email marketing company that enables personalized and targeted communication. The Informz solution provides customers with the tools and expertise to easily and cost-effectively promote their brands, stay in touch, generate and analyze data about their markets, manage information about their customers and partners and receive valuable feedback to refine future action. Advanced features in the Informz product include, online survey tools, online event registration and text messaging.

With state of the art technology, intelligent deliverability and expert eMarketing Advisors, Informz is your professional partner for total email success. From campaign creation and targeting, to ongoing training, reporting, and support, you'll have the tools and expertise you need to send the right message to the right people, at the right time.

empowerMINT.com is the only virtual national sales office for the DMO industry, the only one strategically working to connect planners and their meetings… to destinations and their experts. At empowerMINT.com, a planner, in the initial stages of decision making, can be educated on the value of working with a DMO, find a destination quickly, be enticed by specific offerings, and connect directly with destination experts with nothing to sell, only service to provide – finding the perfect location for their next meeting. SMI has an enabled a direct integration between its Destination 3000™ system and empowerMINT.com's MINT historical database. This connection dramatically streamlines the convention sales research process and post-convention reporting for DMO's by enabling a seamless transfer of information.

Newmarket International, Inc. (www.newmarketinc.com) is the leader in delivering market intelligence, group distribution, sales and event execution software solutions to the global hospitality and entertainment industries. Newmarket International's suite of business solutions can be found in hotels, casinos, restaurants, visitor bureaus, stadiums, meeting arenas and convention centers throughout the world. Newmarket International has over 24,000 software installations in over 154 countries. Newmarket International is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with international offices in London, Shanghai and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.newmarketinc.com.

The IGENO Managed Reporting service for Tourism provides a premium, comprehensive reporting and dashboarding solution for a single, monthly subscription fee. Benefits of the service include unlimited, tailored reports and dashboards as well as weekly calls with management consultants to advise organizations on best practices. In addition, the service provides the ability to leverage report and dashboard templates from other DMOs/CVBs and has out of the box integration with a variety of technology platforms including Destination 3000. The monthly fee includes licensing for SAP Business Objects software, the world leader in business intelligence. IGENO - We manage your reporting so you can manage your business.

NAVTEQ is the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data that enables navigation and location-based platforms around the world. The company has built one of the most robust and accurate geographic databases in the world. NAVTEQ® maps span 78 countries and territories on six continents.

From turn restrictions to relative road crossing heights, the NAVTEQ database has more than 260 data attributes, such as access restrictions, one-way streets and speed categories that help optimize navigation. Additionally, the NAVTEQ database includes Points of Interest (POIs) in approximately 50 categories globally. To ensure accuracy, NAVTEQ has approximately 1,000 geographic analysts strategically located around the world.

NAVTEQ is headquartered in Chicago, IL, USA, with approximately 4,400 employees worldwide located in 195 offices in 44 countries. NAVTEQ is based out of Chicago, Illinois and has regional headquarters in Veldhoven, Netherlands and Gateway East, Singapore.