In ‘Awful April’, when National Insurance and fuel increases are due to bring more
financial headaches for UK businesses that operate in the tourism and hospitality
sectors, there is finally some good news on the horizon. A new social media platform
launching on Monday 21 April intends to turn the fortunes of venue and leisure time
businesses around by offering new and innovative ways to connect them with customers
looking for a great day or night out.
The new platform, which consists of a web portal and social media app, is called
MeAttend and was created over five years by London-based tech entrepreneur Tyrone
Reid. What makes MeAttend groundbreaking is that it eliminates the most persistent pain
point of metropolitan social life – wasted evenings due to not knowing where to go and
what time to go there – let’s call it ‘misleading venue intelligence’. While the average
Londoner spends £2,800+ annually on disappointing social experiences (calculated from
transport, entry fees, and minimum spends at venues that fail to deliver), MeAttend
subscribers will reclaim both their time and money through use of the app’s intelligence
and live time updates.
Unlike existing social media, which mainly show curated highlights, MeAttend will
provide the unfiltered truth: Is that supposedly “buzzing” club actually empty right now?
Is that “hidden gem” worth the £30 taxi ride? Has that “exclusive” bar become a tourist
trap in the last month?
And tourism and hospitality sector businesses can reach this new customer base by
signing up to the venue portal on the platform and benefit from MeAttend’s distinctive
marketing only available via the app. For instance, MeAttend is a next-generation social
media platform that allows companies like exhibitions, restaurants, diners, clubs and
hotels to mass market their venues and events to the masses by showcasing them to
people that want to find the best events, and MeAttend shows potential visitors
comments, reviews, pictures, videos and even live streams from the destination which
each business can make another stream of revenue from.
Tourism and hospitality companies can post pictures, videos and live streams for
potential audiences all around the world – and get advanced analytics on the engagement
progress of their events and venues. Most importantly, MeAttend enables businesses to
grow through a cost-effective means of social media and marketing. This can massively
increase company’s revenues year-on-year and it will give tourism and hospitality sector
companies the ability to create an additional stream of revenue that can grow week on
week.
The MeAttend app will better connect people and companies in a way that has never been
done before. The benefits are simple but revolutionary: app users never have to waste
another night out. They make confident social decisions backed by authenticated real
time data, transforming their entire day or night out – from anxious guesswork to
empowered certainty. And event businesses can take back control of their marketing by
having a presence on a social media platform designed purely to showcase the best
events, venues and destinations for those key leisure moments.
As Tyrone Reid, MeAttend’s Founder puts it; “MeAttend is going to be revolutionary for the
tourism and hospitality industry. This platform has the capability to achieve and become
the next Facebook, but for events, in a very short time, and we are in talks with several
venture capitalists to take MeAttend globally in the next few months. I honestly think we can change the way business and customers engage with events and do this in a way that will increase revenue and make everyone involved happier too. A win-win all round”.
MeAttend is free to all customers and clientele, though businesses will have to register
and subscribe to join the app. A special introductory rate for tourism and hospitality
businesses that sign up before 31 May is now available. To find out more please email
sales@meattend.com or visit www.meattend.com/signup.
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Image 1: Tyrone Reid, 38, spent five years creating the MeAttend social media app.
Image 2: The MeAttend app intends to transform the events world and make travel and
hospitality businesses more profitable.
Image 3: MeAttend is free to event goers, though businesses will have to pay to join the
app.
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For media requests or to arrange interviews with Tyrone, please contact Fiona
Anderson via:
meattend@gecpr.co.uk
0203 907 6824
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