MeetingReview

What MeetingReview does

MeetingReview is a Dutch online review and discovery platform for meeting venues and event locations, founded in 2013 and operated by Rooomer Meeting Services. The platform enables event planners, management assistants, and other corporate organizers in the Netherlands to search, compare, and read user-submitted reviews of meeting rooms, conference centers, and event spaces across more than 12 Dutch cities, including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Eindhoven, and Maastricht. Reviews explicitly score venues on the booking process, food and beverage, and the physical space, with an overall rating covering price, quality, and hospitality.

The product is built as a self-serve, product-led web platform accessible in Dutch, with no dedicated mobile app, no APIs, and no disclosed third-party integrations. Underlying capabilities include city-, name-, capacity-, and room-count-based search; user-generated review submission; and direct booking routed to venue partners. Beyond venue listings, MeetingReview operates a secondary meeting-services directory covering day chairs (dagvoorzitters), caterers, decorators, stand builders, entertainment, photographers/videographers, security, and transport providers. The platform also runs its own recognition programs — STER Rating, Province Awards, and National Awards — to establish credibility in the absence of independent third-party certifications.

The business model is an affiliate/collaboration-partner model (samenwerkpartner): users book directly with venues and MeetingReview does not charge booking fees, meaning revenue flows from venue-side partnership agreements rather than from the user. The company is founder-led by Robert Spakman, is privately held with no disclosed institutional funding or external investors, and is single-country focused on the Netherlands. The homepage displays 0 reviews, 0 reviewers, and 0 locations, which suggests limited realized platform activity relative to the 12+ city footprint, and constrains the assessment of scale.

Name

MeetingReview

Legal name

Rooomer Meeting Services

Website

https://meetingreview.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

MeetingReview is a Dutch online review and discovery platform, founded in 2013, that helps event planners and management assistants find, compare, and review meeting venues and event-service providers across more than 12 cities in the Netherlands via a zero-fee, affiliate-based model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Meeting and Event Venue Marketplace

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192)

akta.pro primary industry

Meeting & Conference Planning & Coordination (HSACADAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Conference & Trade Show Registration Platforms (THAHAFAB)

Keywords

• Venue review platform
• Meeting location directory
• Event venue search
• Meeting services marketplace
• Conference venue booking

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Venue Partnership Model: MeetingReview operates as a collaboration partner (samenwerkpartner) of venues. The platform earns revenue through partnerships with listed venues rather than charging booking fees to users. No hidden costs are passed to customers as bookings are made directly with venues.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

MeetingReview operates an independent review and discovery platform for meeting venues and event service providers across the Netherlands. Users can search by city, venue name, capacity, or room count to find meeting rooms, congress venues, and event spaces, then read user-generated reviews covering booking process, food and beverage, facilities, price, quality, and hospitality. Bookings are made directly with venues and the platform functions as a collaboration partner, earning revenue through partnerships rather than booking fees.

Product overview

MeetingReview operates as a unified platform consisting of two core offerings: (1) a meeting venue review and booking platform that allows users to search for and reserve meeting rooms, conference centers, and event spaces across the Netherlands based on city, capacity, and amenities, with reviews covering booking process, food & beverage, and facilities; and (2) a meeting services directory connecting users with service providers such as event planners, caterers, decorators, photographers, and entertainment for events.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• MeetingReview Platform

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Listed Venues and Meeting Service ProviderscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMeetingReview operates as a collaboration partner (samenwerkpartner) with venues and meeting service providers. Venues listed on the platform include hotels, conference centers, event locations, and meeting service providers such as day chairs, caterers, decorators, entertainment, security, and event planners. The platform drives bookings to these partners without charging fees.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• BizBash: BizBash is a leading media and resource brand for event professionals, covering venues, vendors, and industry trends. It is comparable to MeetingReview's content and discovery role in the events industry, though it operates primarily as a publisher rather than a transactional marketplace.
• Cvent: Cvent is a global leader in meetings, events, and hospitality technology, offering venue sourcing, registration, and event management. It is a broad incumbent competing with MeetingReview's core venue-sourcing use case but at much larger scale and across geographies.
• Eventbrite: Eventbrite operates a large-scale event discovery and ticketing platform used by event organizers worldwide. While it focuses more on ticketed consumer/professional events, it overlaps with MeetingReview in helping organizers find and promote event venues and services.

Emerging players

• Spacefy: Spacefy is an online marketplace that connects event organizers with unique venues and creative spaces. It shares MeetingReview's venue-discovery and booking use case but is at an earlier stage and serves different geographies.
• Tripleseat: Tripleseat provides event management software for venues and restaurants, including lead management and booking workflows. It is adjacent to MeetingReview's venue-side tooling, though it serves the supply side rather than the planner-facing discovery experience.

Direct peers

• Eventective: Eventective is a venue and event vendor marketplace that helps planners find and book event spaces. It overlaps with MeetingReview's venue discovery and review-led booking model, although it serves primarily the US market.
• Peerspace: Peerspace is an online marketplace for booking unique meeting and event spaces by the hour. It shares MeetingReview's core model of venue discovery with reviews and direct booking, though primarily in North America and at a significantly larger scale.
• Meetingselect: Meetingselect is a Dutch-headquartered meeting and event venue booking platform used by corporate buyers across Europe. It directly competes with MeetingReview in the same Netherlands-anchored MICE venue sourcing category.
• Tagvenue: Tagvenue is a marketplace for booking meeting, event, and party venues across the UK, Europe, and beyond. It is a direct peer to MeetingReview in venue discovery and instant booking, but operates at larger international scale.
• Splacer: Splacer is a marketplace for booking unique event and meeting spaces, combining venue listings with reviews. It is comparable to MeetingReview in core marketplace mechanics, though it operates in different geographies.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/meetingreview

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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