Press Release: 28. June, 2024
Embargo: Immediate release
ehotel® Honored for Innovation at the German SME Summit
Ranga Yogeshwar congratulates ehotel AG from Berlin on being awarded the TOP 100 seal. The award ceremony, part of the Summit, will take place on Friday, June 28 in Weimar, Germany, and will honor all of the SMEs that received the TOP 100 seal earlier this year. The science journalist serves as a mentor for the innovation competition, which is now in its 31st year. ehotel® excelled in the scientific selection process, particularly in the “Innovation Success”. This is the eighth time the company has been recognized as a top innovator.
Source: © KD Busch / compamedia | TOP 100 Award Ceremony: Ranga Yogeshwar (left) and Fritz Zerweck (CEO of ehotel AG)
The TOP 100 company profile published at the time of the award states (excerpt): When business owners and employees travel, there are other issues to consider than annual vacations: Can bookings be made quickly and according to company policy? Can travel bookings be integrated into the company’s own management systems? ehotel® has specialized in the unique needs of business travelers. In 2000, the company was one of the first to enable bookings from mobile devices using WPA technology. Today, the top innovator continues to be a technological pioneer.
“Using our proprietary AI-powered meta-search technology, we aggregate and analyze data from OTAs, GDSs, wholesalers and chain CRS systems, offering over seven million accommodations with competitive rates and the highest availability,” says CEO Fritz Zerweck. It also provides transparent information on a hotel’s carbon footprint and links to 16 leading sustainability certification providers. “Sustainability is becoming increasingly important for companies when it comes to travel,” says Zerweck.
Equally important is the ability to integrate a company’s compliance policies into ehotel’s software. The result for customers is an efficient booking process that saves time and reduces costs. In addition, ehotel® offers a scalable central billing solution with global VAT display and seamless integration into corporate systems.
For the full profile, visit: TOP 100 – The Top Innovators.
TOP 100 Competition: Since 1993, compamedia has awarded the TOP 100 seal to medium-sized companies for exceptional innovation and above-average innovation success. The scientific direction has been led by Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke since 2002. Franke is the founder and chairman of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. The mentor for TOP 100 is science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar. Project partners include the Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research and the BVMW. Media partners for the company comparison are manager magazin and impulse, with ZEIT for Entrepreneurs as a cooperation partner. For more information, visit TOP 100.
The ehotel® hotel booking platform bundles the accommodation offerings of all providers worldwide on one platform through META-SEARCH technology. The Berlin-based company is focusing its business on holistic support of hotel bookings and the associated services for business customers. By integrating tools and services into the systems of the companies in question and through specially developed payment and billing solutions, ehotel® ensures optimized processes, end-to-end expenditure control, compliance and cost savings for the customer. The booking platform has been repeatedly recognized for its quality of service by the German Institute for Service Quality and the market research institute ServiceValue among others. www.ehotelag.com
