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20 Years of TravelBrain Consulting

From Project-Based Execution to Strategic Transformation Wow – who would have thought. 20 years ago, we started with a simple idea: companies and Travel Management Companies need partners who don’t just understand their processes, but bring them to life. Today, two decades later, we have successfully implemented hundreds of transformation projects together with our clients – and the journey is far from over. Getting Started: Project Management for TMCs It began in 2006 with a framework for projects: 6–18 months, clearly defined, measurably successful. Our teams took on project management responsibilities for the major Travel Management Companies – implementing

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Business Travel

Successfully implement corporate climate goals with ClimPact!

Climate goals in business travel is the current hot topic in travel management. Travel management companies, online travel agencies and providers of online booking tools are all working hard to make the emissions of business trips visible as early as the booking process. The aim is to show booking and traveling employees how and where the carbon footprint can be reduced. But how can travel professionals and employees really achieve companies’ climate and cost targets? Swiss startup ClimPact takes a slightly different approach. We took a look together with Christian Zeunert, one of the founders. Convincing bookers to change

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Business Travel

Business Travel Reloaded – is your company ready?

It’s starting up again – slowly but steadily Business Travel reloaded. The business travellers are waiting in the wings. Is your company ready when it starts again? We hope you and your teams have had a good start to the New Year. Of course, we wish you all the very best, much success and good health. May it be a year in which we finally leave the still prevailing pandemic behind us. Despite the still prevailing COVID-19 restrictions, October and November have shown that we are slowly heading back towards “normality” in business travel. Although the Omicron variant has

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Events

ASTM Event at the citizenM Hotel in Geneva on 22 September 2020

With virtual panel discussion on “The Future is now – Hotels post Covid-19” At long last I could finally meet again with industry colleagues and travel managers. Live and in colour at the brand new cititzenM hotel in Geneva where the ASTM had initiated a fully Covid19 compatible hybrid event to commemorate the opening of this new property. Sabah Kahoul and Dominic Short from the ASTM had made it their target to bring business travel management people together for a physical meeting after all these weeks of lockdown. Regardless of the pandemic the citizenM Hotel in Geneva the chain’s

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General

Hotel Programm Management – travelBrain with TRIPBAM certification

Our travelBrain consultants and travelBrain freelancers belong to the exclusive circle of consultants with TripBam certification. We are therefore able to support our customers in the use of the TripBam Intelligence Platform and the associated optimization of their own hotel programs. “Daily Rate Shopping”, “Smart Sourcing” and “Smart Share Shift” are only some of the modules that guarantee high savings when used consistently. Reach out to us to find out more about what is possible for your company. Email: adrian.matt@travelbrain.ch

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Big Data

The Event – Travel Start-up Night in Zurich on 23 May 2019

On Thursday evening, the first Travel Start-up Night took place at a-ja Zürich City Resort. Even though the Swiss version of the Travel Industry Club (TIC) and Internet Travel Sales Association (VIR) events were co-organized by Kuoni Business Travel, the topic of “business travel” was only marginally present. In fact, start-ups from a wide range of tourism, hotel and catering sectors presented themselves. A quite exciting event with a slightly different focus. Starting from 18.00 h the participants and the colleagues of the presenting Startups were taken in receipt in the Lounge of the a-ja City Resorts by the

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Business Travel

Back in business – Ralf Dörig joins Kuster Reisen

After his decision to leave HRG at the end of December 2018 it took only three months before Ralf Dörig is back on the stage, taking over responsibility for the business travel unit of the family business Kuster Reisen in Rapperswil. At the same time, he will act as deputy managing director in the company. Mockingbirds were hummin’ for a few weeks and industry colleagues keet asking where Ralf will reappear after his break. Even if some were informed about the step early on, the change could go largely unnoticed and without much hype. Today, Arnold Kuster, the patron

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Consulting

We are back in full shape – holidays are over

Batteries are full again and or teams are ready for new exciting projects. Our experts are ready to help with process analysis and optimisation, implementations of online booking engines or the evaluation and replacement of midoffice solutions. Do you need professional advise for your Travel Risk Management program or want to implement a Profile Management solution – we are happy to discuss. TravelBrain for Travel Agencies TravelBrain for Travel Management Companies TravelBrain for Corporates and Travel Managers TravelBrain for Technology Providers And our colleagues from expenseBrain are ready to step in should your project have a focus on Expense

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Business Travel

Marco is moving on – or when offers are irresistible

After a short but pretty intense time as freelancer for travelBrain Marco Zweifel has decided to accept a new challenge at Travelport Switzerland. In his new role as Head Account Management he will be the new No. 2 in Dieter Rumpel’s organisation. A short sprint at travelBrain seems to be good enough to attract interest within the travel tech industry. With Ercument Aydin at Amadeus and Daniel Grenacher at Sabre two of our former colleagues have already made such a move. I am glad to see that our name helps – however, I certainly had preferred to keep Marco

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Business Travel

New experts joining the travelBrain team

The mockingbirds are hummin’ and the industry press has already picked up the topic and reported about the latest additions to the travelBrain team. With Marco Zweifel and Jean-Daniel Ducret two well-know industry experts have recently joined the company. For the first time in travelBrain’s history we have a direct representation in the French part of Switzerland and an additional one for France. In addition to a part time assignment for a local TMC in Geneva, Jean-Daniel will support our clients as a consultant and project manager for sourcing projects, process analysis and optimisation, the implementation of the latest

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