e+o meeting, event & travel management

What e+o meeting, event & travel management does

AYS Meetings, Events & Travel is a private, two-person meeting, event, and travel planning agency founded in December 2018 by Wendy Bolte and Jessica Glazer. The firm sources hotels, resorts, and venues for corporate clients, manages RFP distribution, consolidates proposals, conducts cost comparisons, coordinates site visits, and negotiates contracts on the client's behalf. Wendy Bolte operates from Los Angeles and Jessica Glazer from Long Island/New York, giving the firm a two-coast footprint. The technology stack is minimal: Cvent is used for RFP distribution and proposal consolidation, and the Squarespace-hosted website serves as the primary marketing surface.

The business model is commission-based and free to clients. AYS earns revenue from hotels, resorts, and venues upon successful booking or contract execution, rather than charging planning fees to corporate buyers. The customer segment is horizontal: corporate clients and event planners needing meeting, group event, and business travel coordination. Distribution is direct-to-consumer through the founders' personal networks, word-of-mouth referrals, and the company website; there are no intermediaries, no channel partners, and no disclosed enterprise agreements. AYS holds no patents, has no disclosed funding, is not owned by a parent company, and operates without institutional investors according to available data.

Name

e+o meeting, event & travel management

Legal name

AYS Meetings, Events & Travel

Website

https://aysmeetings.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

AYS Meetings, Events & Travel is a privately held, two-partner agency founded in 2018 that plans corporate meetings, events, and travel on a commission basis. Wendy Bolte and Jessica Glazer, each with 20+ years of hospitality sales experience, serve corporate clients from Los Angeles and New York using Cvent for RFP distribution.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Corporate Meeting and Travel Planning Services

NAICS

Travel Agencies (561510), All Other Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services (561599)

SIC

Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYTHAKAMAC

Meetings & Group Travel Management (Corporate Groups)

Travel & Hospitality/Travel Agencies, Tour Operators & OTAs/Corporate Travel Management Services

SECONDARYTHALANAH

Meetings & Group Travel Management (Corporate/MICE)

Travel & Hospitality/Travel Technology & Distribution Services/Corporate Travel Solutions

SECONDARYTHACAFAG

Attendee Management & Communications (Invites, RSVP, Housing)

Travel & Hospitality/Business Travel & Corporate Travel Management/Meetings & Group Travel Management (Corporate)

SECONDARYTHAHAIAK

Meeting & Room Logistics Management (Space, Seating, Catering, A/V)

Travel & Hospitality/MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions)/Corporate Event Management & Internal Meetings

Keywords

• Corporate meeting planning
• Corporate travel management
• Hotel sourcing services
• Event venue sourcing
• RFP management services

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Commission-based fees from hotels and venues: The company provides research, sourcing, RFP management, contract negotiations, and site visit coordination services at no charge to clients. Revenue is generated through commissions paid by hotels, resorts, and venues upon successful booking or contract execution.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

AYS Meetings, Events & Travel provides corporate meeting planning, event coordination, and corporate travel management services, including hotel and venue research, RFP distribution and consolidation (via Cvent), cost comparisons, site visit coordination, contract negotiation, and travel booking support. All services are delivered free of charge to corporate clients, with revenue generated through commissions paid by hotels, resorts and venues on successful bookings.

Product overview

AYS Meetings, Events & Travel is a meeting and travel planning company offering two integrated service lines: Meetings Services (sourcing, RFP distribution via Cvent, proposal consolidation, cost comparison, site visit coordination, negotiation, and vendor recommendations) and Travel Services (research, rate comparison, personalized booking, VIP services, special requests, and billing coordination). The company serves clients nationwide from offices in Los Angeles and New York City, with services provided free of charge.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Meetings Services

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• BCD Travel: One of the world's largest corporate travel management companies with extensive meetings, events, and group-booking capabilities - a major competitor for any corporate meeting RFP.
• Direct Travel: Large North American TMC with corporate meetings and group travel services, comparable in offering but vastly larger in scale than AYS.
• American Express Global Business Travel: Major global TMC with a dedicated meetings and events practice serving large enterprise accounts, frequently competing with boutique meeting agents on mid-market RFPs.
• CWT: Global corporate travel and meetings management company with a dedicated meetings & events division that sources and contracts hotel space for enterprise clients.

Direct peers

• McVeigh Global Meetings & Events: Mid-size corporate meetings and events management firm with comparable hotel sourcing, contract negotiation, and on-site services, sitting between AYS and HelmsBriscoe in scale.
• HelmsBriscoe (now part of Onyx): The longest-established independent meeting sourcing agency in the US, matching corporate clients with hotel meeting space on a commission basis - essentially the same business model AYS operates, just at much larger scale.
• Maritz Global Events: Corporate meetings, incentive travel, and event management business serving enterprise clients, with overlapping hotel sourcing and contract-negotiation capabilities.
• ConferenceDirect: Independent meetings-procurement agency that sources meeting venues and negotiates hotel contracts for corporate clients on a commission basis, directly comparable to AYS's core sourcing/RFP/contracting service.

Others

• Cvent: Provider of the meeting-sourcing and RFP platform AYS already uses; primarily an enabling technology vendor but increasingly a competitor through its own hotel-sourcing marketplace and end-to-end event management suite.
• Marriott Meeting Services / Hotel Sales Teams: Major hotel chains increasingly contract directly with corporate clients for large meetings, bypassing third-party sourcing agencies - a structural threat to AYS's intermediary model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ays-meetings-events-travel

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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