by editorial office, mas
Hotel booking platform Corporate Rates Club (CRC) has good news to tell of in these times of economic crisis: Despite a significant 50% decline in bookings made by CRC clients and the automotive and supplying industries, revenues from bookings saw a 20 percent increase year-on-year in the first quarter of 2009. This pleasant result is founded on the acquisition of new clients, who see a lot of potential for cutting business trip expenses in times of great need for economization.
New among the clients of CRC is Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe GmbH, which was awarded the “European Travel Buyer Award” in this year’s Business Travel Show in London for the implementation of the CRC hotel booking platform. Further expanding the booking volume at CRC are GDF Suez Energie Deutschland, health and medicine specialist Damp Holding, Hoya Lens Deutschland GmbH, one of the global leaders in the development and production of optical lenses, and D+S Europe AG, a full-service provider of e-commerce management, employing 6,500 people. Orchestra Service SE, provider and distributor of data protection and archiving, has returned to CRC after trying another provider. Along with the reduction of hotel costs by up to 60 percent and the convenient booking tool, billing solutions for hotel stays in other countries via a service jointly provided by CRC and Airplus were stated as important factors that led to the re-implementation of the booking platform.
“Many potential clients are increasingly looking into cutting travel expenses at the moment and are thus highly interested in our economic solutions for hotel booking,” CRC Director Michael Krenz stated, delighted with the revenue increase in times of crisis. He projected that “based on the positive acquisition of new clients, we are anticipating revenues to keep increasing by more than 20 percent in the upcoming quarters.”
More information on CRC’s hotel booking platform for cost-conscious business travelers can be found on the Internet at www.crc.ag or www.corporate-rates-club.de.
The Corporate Rates Club is a booking platform for cost-conscious business travelers and acts as buying syndicate, its member base comprising close to 500 high-profile clients with an annual volume of overnight stays amounting to more than 50 million euros. Among them are renowned companies such as IMS Health, Bavaria Lloyd (BMW Group), GDF Suez Energie Deutschland, TÜV Nord, BDO Deutsche Warentreuhand AG and the German Federal State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Users are presently provided with a choice of nearly 315,000 lodging establishments in every category, around 80,000 of which have special agreements with CRC and can be booked directly at particularly low rates. The Corporate Rates Club covers the business travel segment of Stralsunder TourisMarketing Service GmbH, which also operates the tourism-centered hotel booking portal Tourisline. More information is available on the Internet at www.crc.ag or www.corporate-rates-club.de, as well as via telephone around the clock at 01805 – 00 55 34 (0.14 euros per minute from German landlines).
