Top 100 Contest: ehotel® awarded for innovative pioneering work

Press Release: 24. July, 2022

Embargo: Immediate release

Top 100 Contest: ehotel® awarded for innovative pioneering work

Überlingen – Distinction at the German SME Summit 2022: Science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar honored ehotel AG from Berlin for its success in the innovation competition TOP 100. The award ceremony, which was held as part of the summit, took place on Friday evening, 24 June, in Frankfurt am Main, bringing together all medium-sized companies that were awarded the TOP 100 seal of approval at the beginning of the year. Yogeshwar accompanied the innovation competition, which was held for the 29th time this year, as a mentor. In the scientific selection process, ehotel® was excelled particularly in the category “Innovation Success”. The company is among the top innovators for the sixth time.

The TOP 100 company profile published in the context of the award states (excerpt):
‘They are pioneers of online booking: ehotel® launched in 2000 with the aim of simplifying the world of business travel from booking to billing. The Berlin-based company brings together travel managers, buyers, hotels and business travelers on one platform, and makes the entire end-to-end process as comfortable as possible thanks to digital innovations. “In reality, we are a tech company. The services we offer streamline the administrative process of our customers,” says CEO Fritz Zerweck.’

At the operational center of the business is ehotel®’s in-house meta-search technology. More than one million hotels worldwide are connected to this search engine, which only takes into account contingents and offers that are actually bookable – a clear added value for customers, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. The digital tool also uses data from around 600 other booking systems to filter and display all available room options with the best conditions in real time.

The full company profile is published at www.top100.de/die-top-innovatoren.

TOP 100: The competition compamedia has been awarding the TOP 100 seal for special innovative strength and above-average innovation success to medium-sized companies since 1993. Since 2002, scientific management has been in the hands of Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke, founder and director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar has been a long-standing mentor of the TOP 100 innovation competition. Project partners are the Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research and the BVMW association of small and medium-sized enterprises. The company comparison is accompanied by the magazines manager magazin and impulse as media partners. For further information, visit www.top100.de.

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

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