DENVER, Colorado—Engine introduced the launch of Engine Areas, making it the primary enterprise journey platform to combine workspace reserving alongside flights, resorts, and rental vehicles. The brand new market launches with Alternative Accommodations as a premier service supplier, and can faucet into Engine’s nationwide resort community, giving enterprise vacationers and distant staff entry to greater than 40,000 skilled assembly and occasion areas throughout america.
Platform Particulars
With Engine Areas, anybody can browse choices—from small convention rooms to giant occasion venues—with the flexibility to filter by metropolis, date, and facilities. Every itemizing consists of estimated pricing, photographs, descriptions, and a built-in inquiry kind that sends requests on to resorts. All house particulars are centralized inside Engine, without having to verify a number of websites or contact resorts on to ask about particulars or pricing.
For resorts, Engine Areas makes it simpler to attach with vacationers and fill assembly areas that always go unused. In response to a December 2025 Engine ballot of resort operators, 82 p.c of resort assembly and occasion areas are booked lower than half the time. The platform affords devoted, skilled listings for every house, and resorts can simply add pictures and key particulars so vacationers can shortly assess match. As an alternative of fielding handbook inquiries, detailed requests go straight to a chosen inbox.
“Engine was constructed to energy connection by means of simplified journey, and Areas is a pure extension of that mission,” mentioned Elia Wallen, founder and chief government officer of Engine. “At present, too many groups are caught trying to find locations to fulfill or settling for espresso retailers and lobbies. By bringing skilled assembly areas into our platform, we’re making it simpler for staff to plan journey and collaboration in a single place. We’re excited to provide trendy, distributed groups a greater method to come collectively, get work completed, and transfer sooner.”
“Alternative Accommodations Worldwide has a community of over 7,500 resorts, lots of which provide devoted assembly and occasion areas designed particularly for enterprise vacationers. Alternative Accommodations has invested in assembly rooms and versatile areas that make it simple for planners to carry their imaginative and prescient to life, and we proceed to increase how these areas are showcased to firms planning conferences and occasions as a part of their enterprise journey,” mentioned Kaaren Hamilton, vp of world gross sales at Alternative Accommodations. “We’re excited to collaborate with Engine on Areas as a result of it offers Alternative Accommodations a brand new method to floor our assembly areas inside a platform the place firms are already reserving enterprise journey. Engine Areas integrates Alternative Accommodations’ assembly areas into the platform, supporting engagement between planners and our homeowners and operators. We’re excited to attach extra of our company with skilled and dependable areas for his or her conferences and occasions.”
