Cvent, Inc. announced it has joined Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI) as one of the organization's Elite Alliance Partners. The central theme of this new collaboration is to provide valuable educational offerings to meeting professionals and to promote destination marketing organizations (DMOs) through the Cvent Supplier Network (CSN) as one of the best first points of contact to help find the ideal venue for any size meeting. The Cvent Supplier Network is the industry's largest online marketplace, connecting meeting and event planners with more than 200,000 hotels and other venues globally.

It also features profiles of more than 2,000 DMOs around the world. A key feature of the CSN is the Destination Guide, the ultimate meeting planning resource to provide crucial, meeting-specific information to event planning professionals for more than 1,000 destinations worldwide. Through this partnership, Cvent's Destination Guide now integrates DMAI's empowerMINT content, easily connecting meeting professionals to the complimentary expertise of sales and service personnel from DMOs around the world.

Additionally, in an effort to increase the visibility of DMOs on the Cvent platform, as well as build greater awareness of the services that these organizations have to offer planners, Cvent has added a new feature to the RFP process which encourages planners to add Cvent's destination partners every time they send an RFP to their destination. As part of this new feature, planners are provided with a detailed explanation of how DMOs can be instrumental in the sourcing process.