Meetings.com Appoints Bas Lemmens, Co-founder of Booking.com, as new CEO

Meetings.com, the premier site for information on meeting, hotel rooms and banquet venues worldwide, today announces the appointment of Bas Lemmens as the company’s new CEO of Meetings.com. With more than 18 years of experience in the travel and hospitality industry, Mr. Bas Lemmens is the Co-founder of Booking.com. A graduate from the University of Twente in Holland with a Master in Industrial Engineering and Management Science. Meetings.com is a wholly owned by HotelPlanner.

Mr. Lemmens now joins Meetings.com to oversee the company’s strategic planning model providing hotel and revenue sourcing and grow their sales/support services to professional meeting, event and group hotel planners worldwide. He will be based in Amsterdam, NL, the location of the company’s newest European offices.