APRIL 28, 2005 -- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide yesterday announced that it has deployed new online meeting space booking capabilities for small, single-day meetings at 21 properties in Atlanta, Boston and Florida. The new service, called “Meetings in a Moment,” enables buyers to purchase meeting space, food and beverage and audiovisual services for meetings of up to 25 attendees.

The company plans to implement the service at more than 60 other U.S. and Canadian Starwood locations in 2005. Through the Starwood Web site, meeting buyers can select a hotel, explore available meeting rooms, add services, reserve online with a credit card and receive confirmation. In addition, a representative of the hotel will contact the meeting buyer within one business day.

Starwood also is offering 5,000 bonus Starpoints for a group's first meeting booked online by June 30 through the Starwood Preferred Planner reward program.