Christian Elsässer

Partner & Senior Vice President Consulting expenseBrain

For travelBrain and expenseBrain Christian tours through Germany as a consultant in the travel industry. Hereby, Christian addresses general issues in the area of business travel management with specific reference. In addition, Christian also deals with the challenges in the sales of travel services, the related technology as well as the concepts and solution approaches dealing with the topics of “Distribution Cost Charge” (DCC) and “New Distribution Capabilities” (NDC).

Christian’s experiences are based on the management of a medium-sized sales team in the area of international business travel management as well as in the field of sales technology; in the latter case for touristic package holidays systems as well as scheduled airline distribution alike. He maintains excellent contacts in the travel management and travel sales sector in Germany and Austria.

Christian has been working in the travel industry since 1995 and has held executive functions at HRG and BCD Travel; before joining travelBrain he had market responsibility for Sabre in Germany and Austria. His portfolio combines solid sales knowhow with experience in the requirements and procedures of travel managers as well as in the operational field of travel management companies (TMCs). Furthermore, he has a technical understanding of reservation and mid-office systems and is familiar with the characteristics and challenges of complex projects.