Meeting 

Planner

eBrochure

History & Evolution

Designed for luxury hotels, resorts, golf courses and convention venues.

Early Digital Exploration (Early 2000s)

The foundations of the Meeting Planner eBrochure were established in the early 2000s, as hotels began adopting digital presentation tools to complement and gradually replace printed materials.


At a time when most hotel sales tools were limited to brochures and static plans, early versions of interactive eBrochures were already being developed—featuring clickable floor plans, structured navigation, and screen-based presentations using the technologies available at the time.


While the tools were different, the objective was already clear: to help clients understand space visually, interactively, and with greater confidence.


This early experimentation established a long-standing approach of adopting new technologies thoughtfully, as soon as they proved useful.


During this period, these systems were developed for and implemented at a range of international luxury, resort, and convention hotels, including selected properties affiliated with:

  • Hyatt Hotels & Resorts (Grand Hyatt, Hyatt Regency, Andaz)
  • Westin Hotels & Resorts
  • St. Regis Hotels & Resorts
  • Sheraton Hotels


Notable early implementations included properties in locations such as Chicago (O’Hare and downtown), New York (Park Avenue / Grand Central), Las Vegas, Scottsdale, San Antonio, Houston, Newport Beach, Seattle, Washington, D.C., London, Rome, Shanghai, Beijing, the Caribbean, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface designed for The Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Illinois, featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.
Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface desig The Grand Hyatt Washington, featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.

O'Hare Airport Rosemond, Illinois

Meeting Planner eBrochure — Design & Production

Washington DC

Meeting Planner eBrochure — Design & Production

From CD-ROMs to Web-Based Experiences

As technology evolved, eBrochures transitioned from offline formats—such as CD-ROM and local presentations—to fully web-based platforms.


This shift allowed meeting planners and hotel teams to access information remotely, share presentations easily, and update content without reprinting or redistributing materials.


Interactive floor plans, image galleries, and structured venue navigation remained central, while performance, resolution, and accessibility steadily improved.

The eBrochure began to take the form of a living reference rather than a static document.


Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface designed for The St. Regis Beijing, China, featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.
Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface designed for The Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Illinois, featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.

Beijing, China

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Indian Wells, California

Meeting Planner eBrochure — Design & Production

Visual Maturity Through Photography & Architecture

With the growth of broadband and modern displays, the focus moved toward visual quality and spatial accuracy.


Professional architectural photography became a foundational element, ensuring that meeting spaces were represented with correct proportions, lighting, and perspective.

This period reinforced the importance of understanding venues not just visually, but architecturally—how rooms relate to one another, how they function, and how they are experienced.


The eBrochure matured into a tool that balanced aesthetic refinement with practical planning needs.

Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface designed for St. Regis Rome, Italy, featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.
Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface designed for Hyatt Regency Dallas, Texas featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.

Rome, Italy

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Dallas, Texas

Meeting Planner eBrochure — Design & Production

Cinematic Storytelling & Interactive Planning

As digital behavior changed and attention spans shortened, the eBrochure evolved again—introducing cinematic storyboard sequences and deeper interactivity.


Still images were carefully rendered into motion, creating guided visual narratives that conveyed atmosphere without distraction.

Interactive planning features—floor plans, capacities, galleries, and virtual tours—were unified into a single, coherent experience.


This stage marked the transition from informational presentation to experiential exploration.




Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface designed for The St. Regis Shanghai, China - featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.
Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface designed for Hyatt Regency Chicago, Illinois, featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.

Shanghai, China

Meeting Planner eBrochure — Design & Production

Chicago, Illinois

Meeting Planner eBrochure — Design & Production

AI as an Extension of Craft

Recent advances in AI introduced new efficiencies and creative possibilities, but the guiding principle remained unchanged.


AI is used selectively as an extension of craft, supporting image rendering, video processing, optimization, and workflow acceleration—always under human creative and technical supervision.


The focus remains on clarity, consistency, and control, ensuring that technology enhances the experience rather than defining it.



Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface designed for The W Hotel Austin, Texas, featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.
Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface designed for Hyatt Regency Resort and Spa Indian Wells, California, featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.

Austin, Texas

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Indian Wells, California

Meeting Planner eBrochure — Design & Production

Continuity, Not Reinvention

The Meeting Planner eBrochure has never been about chasing trends.

Each phase of its evolution builds on the previous one—retaining what works, refining what can improve, and adopting new tools when they genuinely add value.


This continuity is what allows the eBrochure to feel established, reliable, and future-ready at the same time.



Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface designed for The WEstin Aruba Resort, Noord, Aruba, featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.
Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface designed for The Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Illinois, featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.

Noord, Aruba

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O'Hare Airport ROSEMONT, ILLINOIS

Meeting Planner eBrochure — Design & Production

Looking Forward

The Meeting Planner eBrochure continues to evolve alongside hospitality, technology, and the way teams and planners work.


What remains constant is the intent:

to present space with accuracy, experience with clarity, and technology with purpose.


Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface designed for The Westin La Ceantera Resort, San Antonio, Texas, featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.
Interactive Meeting Planner eBrochure interface designed for Andaz Scottsdale Resort and Spa, Scottsdale, Arizona, featuring interactive floor plans with capacity details, branded hotel photography, and structured meeting space presentation.

San Antonio, Texas

Meeting Planner eBrochure — Design & Production

Scottsdale, Arizona

Meeting Planner eBrochure — Design & Production

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