Audio Interview with Greg Pesik, President and CEO, Passkey - Pesik shares a HotelDirect update, a look at his brand new position and the current state of the meetings industry.

Passkey's new President and CEO Greg Pesik has been on the job for just over a month. Despite a slowdown in travel following Sept. 11, he is quick to point out in this audio interview that many meetings and conferences were postponed - not cancelled. With funding from Sabre, Galileo and Worldspan coming earlier in the year, the new head for the leading processor of group hotel reservations has his work cut out for him. Listen in. He sounds like he's ready for the task at hand.

Image left: Greg Pesik

Passkey is the leading provider of Internet-based group housing and travel solutions for the meetings and convention industry.

Passkey's innovative approaches and advanced technology improve meeting industry processes and help industry participants (meeting planners, convention and visitors bureaus, housing providers, and hotels) work together to better meet their customers' needs. Passkey uses Internet-based software and a shared, centralized reservation database to solve many widely recognized problems in group-related hotel inventory management and reservations processing, known in the industry as convention housing, while also integrating event registration and travel services with housing into this single database. This practical, flexible solution is in use today at several major U.S. destination cities and at more than 2000 Passkey-enabled hotels.