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UPSIDE Gift Cards – the new currency in Business Travel?

The founder of priceline.com, the entrepreneur Jay Walker, has set-up a new start-up company. UPSIDE is the name of the new, innovative company. With the help of big data, cloud computing and a mobile app, Upside promise business travellers gift cards for flexibility.    What’s the benefit of UPSIDE Gift Cards? It is an interesting approach. But what exactly is UPSIDE? UPSIDE currently is only available in the US. When a business traveller books his/her international trip with UPSIDE (for now only available as flight in combination with a hotel) the UPSIDE «Flexibility Engine» is checking various data bases

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Consulting

The Event: Cvent Connect Las Vegas, June 26 – 30, 2016

Here at TravelBrain Strategic Meeting Management became a regular topic in many of our client projects. The lead in this area has my colleague Stefan Otter. This is the reason why he recently travelled to Las Vegas to attend the Cvent Connect Convention, one of the largest industry events on this topic. Please read his post about his trip and the convention. From June 26 to 30, 2016 Cvent Connect took place in Las Vegas. The yearly convention of Cvent, one of the leading event management software providers, is an event which draws global attention. Almost 3000 people attended

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Business Travel

Profile Management – a small one plays big

Martin Bachmann, the Head of the Swiss travel technology company Umbrella is not the tallest one. And Umbrella is – compared to other software providers – not the biggest player neither. But anyway, both are winning big with its profile management solution «Umbrella Faces». Beside Kuoni Business Travel and Lufthansa City Center (LCC) also the technology group ABB decided to use Umbrella. We at TravelBrain give attention to the subject Profile Management since the foundation of the company 10 years ago. One of the fist topics of TravelBrain One of my first topics at the start of TravelBrain has

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App Check

Mobile Hotel bookings – Turn back the times?

According to a recent communication by CWT, mobile hotel bookings via their App CWT to Go are booming. It looks like we are talking about a monthly growth rate of 20% and more! Are the Travel Management Companies (TMCs) such as CWT, BCD, HRG and American Express GBT able to turn back the times and win back long lost hotel bookings? The fact that the growth rate of mobile bookings are increasing does not really come as a surprise and is not knocking my socks off. Booking.com, HRS and some Last Minute Hotel Apps have cleared the way and their figures

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