Corporate Rates Club

What Corporate Rates Club does

Corporate Rates Club (CRC) is a German business-to-business hotel booking platform for corporate travelers, founded in September 2002 as a division of TourisMarketing Service GmbH (established 1998 in Stralsund). The company operates a closed online booking portal giving corporate customers access to approximately 750,000 business-travel-suitable accommodations worldwide, with pre-negotiated corporate rates, consolidated central billing, and travel-policy compliance tooling. CRC serves three customer segments: corporate enterprises (its primary segment), travel agencies that resell bookings on a commission-sharing basis, and hotel suppliers that list inventory and access corporate demand through a dedicated extranet.

The platform is built around an OTA-standard API that integrates into Online Booking Engines used by corporate travel and expense systems, including SAP Concur, cytric (i:FAO), Atlatos, onesto, PASS Business Unit Travel, and Viatos. Core modules include a Central Billing Solution integrated with AirPlus (Company Account, A.I.D.A. Virtual Cards, PSD2-exempt settlement) that replaces individual hotel receipts with consolidated, VAT-compliant invoices; an Online Statistics Tool for booking analytics, Excel exports, and hotel procurement benchmarking; a MICE Portal with 46,000+ hotels and service providers for meeting and event booking; and a 2024 CO2-footprint reporting feature for hotel overnight stays. The hosting infrastructure is provided by Boreus, certified to ISO 27001 and openITIL.

CRC generates revenue primarily through hotel commissions on bookings settled through the platform, supplemented by recurring corporate subscription/fees for Standard services (booking access, statistics, account management) and Additional services (AirPlus central billing, contract hotel labeling, travel-policy integration, MICE access), plus commission-sharing paid to referring travel agencies. As of 2023, CRC became a majority-owned subsidiary of France-headquartered CDS Groupe, and in 2025 was placed under the S4BT - Solutions for Business Travel holding company, which in February 2026 acquired HotelHub, lifting the group's combined annual hotel booking volume to over $5 billion across eight brands: CDS, Goelett, CRC, TMS, SIAP, Methodica, Trevium, and HotelHub.

Name

Corporate Rates Club

Legal name

TourisMarketing Service GmbH

Website

https://corporate-rates-club.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Corporate Rates Club (CRC) operates a closed B2B hotel booking platform for corporate business travelers, offering access to 750,000+ accommodations worldwide with negotiated rates, AirPlus-integrated central billing, and OTA-standard integration into Online Booking Engines like SAP Concur, cytric, and Atlatos.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Corporate Travel Booking Platform

NAICS

Other Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services (56159), Travel Agencies (561510)

akta.pro primary industry

Corporate Travel & Expense Booking Platforms (BPAMAIAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Hotel Program Management (Corporate Lodging) (THAKAMAI), Travel Payments & Virtual Cards for Corporate Travel (THALAMAJ), Payment Solutions for Corporate Travel (Virtual Cards, Lodge Cards, Central Billing) (THAKAMAN)

Keywords

• Corporate hotel booking
• Business travel platform
• Online booking engine
• Central billing solutions
• Negotiated hotel rates

Headquarters

HQ city

Stralsund

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Hotel Commission: Hotels pay commission on bookings made through the CRC platform. Commission is calculated on total gross revenue plus applicable VAT, settled according to departure date. This is the primary revenue stream.
2. Corporate Subscription/Fees: Corporate customers pay for access to the booking platform and services. While specific pricing is not publicly disclosed, corporate customers receive access to negotiated corporate rates, central billing, and account management services.
3. Travel Agency Commission Sharing: Travel agencies receive commission participation for referring new corporate customers to CRC. Both agency-initiated bookings and bookings made by referred customers via their own access count toward commission calculations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Corporate Rates Club operates a closed corporate hotel booking platform providing access to approximately 750,000 business-travel-suitable accommodations worldwide with pre-negotiated corporate rates. The platform features central billing via AirPlus integration (Company Account, A.I.D.A. Virtual Cards, Debit Account), an OTA-standard interface for seamless integration with Online Booking Engines (SAP Concur, cytric, Atlatos, onesto, PASS), a free online statistics tool, and a MICE portal for meetings and events. The platform serves enterprise corporate clients, travel agencies, and hotel partners.

Product overview

Corporate Rates Club (CRC) operates a platform-plus-modules architecture built around its core closed hotel booking portal for business travelers. The platform provides access to approximately 750,000 accommodations worldwide with specially negotiated corporate rates. Core modules include Central Billing Solutions via AirPlus (for consolidated invoicing and virtual card payments), an Online Statistics Tool (for booking analytics and hotel purchasing insights), an OTA-Standard Interface for OBE Integration (enabling connectivity with Online Booking Engines like SAP Concur, cytric, and Atlatos), and the MICE Portal (for meeting and event booking). A dedicated Hotel Extranet serves property partners. The platform serves three customer segments: corporate companies, travel agencies, and hotels, all connected through the same underlying booking infrastructure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CRC Hotel Booking Portal CRC's primary closed hotel booking platform for business travelers, offering access to approximately 750,000 accommodations worldwide with negotiated corporate rates. Features include hotel search, booking management, central billing integration, statistics tool, and Online Booking Engine connectivity. Targeted at enterprise and mid-market corporate clients.
• Central Billing Solutions Central payment and billing solutions for hotel services via AirPlus partnership, including AirPlus Company Account, A.I.D.A. Virtual Cards, AirPlus Debit Account, and AirPlus Meeting Solution. Enables consolidated collective invoices, elimination of individual hotel receipts, automatic VAT handling, and process cost savings for corporate customers.
• Online Statistics Tool Free online statistics and reporting tool enabling diverse individual evaluation options for booking behavior, Excel download for all queries, access to accounting data for bookings with central billing, and evaluations of individual hotels and destinations as basis for hotel purchasing. Available to corporate customers.
• OTA-Standard Interface (OBE Integration) Interface developed according to OTA (OpenTravel Alliance) standard enabling integration into various Online Booking Engines (OBEs). Delivers standard and CRC rates to OBEs, handles activation of corporate contract rates, and processes central billing upon request. Supports SAP Concur, cytric, Atlatos, onesto, PASS, and Viatos.
• CRC MICE Portal
• CRC Hotel Extranet Dedicated portal for hotel partners to manage their presence on the CRC platform, including standard presentation, marketing enhancements, and listing optimizations. Available to hotel suppliers seeking access to corporate booking volume.
• CO2-Hotel-Fußabdruck (CO2 Hotel Footprint) Solution Solution enabling travel managers and business travelers to precisely display and control CO2 emissions from hotel overnight stays. Aligned with and going beyond CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) requirements. Targeted at corporate customers with sustainability reporting obligations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Hotels benefit from process cost optimization through consolidated inquiry handling
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers21 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration19 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• S4BT - Solutions for Business TravelflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025S4BT is a holding company established in 2025 to unify subsidiaries including CDS, Goelett, CRC, TMS, SIAP, Methodica, and Trevium under a common vision for the future of business travel management. CRC is part of this strategic alignment benefiting from group-wide expertise and service expansion. In February 2026, S4BT acquired HotelHub, bringing group hotel booking volume to over $5 billion annually.
• AirPlus InternationalcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 September 2002AirPlus is a leading international provider of business travel payment and billing solutions. 51,000 corporate customers use AirPlus for business travel payment and expense reporting. CRC leverages AirPlus Company Account and A.I.D.A. Virtual Cards for central billing. The partnership enables consolidated invoicing, elimination of individual hotel receipts, and PSD2-exempt virtual card payments for hotel stays.
• SAP ConcurcoreTechnology or IntegrationSAP Concur is the world's leading provider of integrated solutions for booking and expense management of business travel. CRC provides hotel booking integration into SAP Concur, enabling seamless hotel booking within the Concur ecosystem with automatic expense tracking.
• cytric (i:FAO)coreTechnology or Integrationi:FAO developed cytric, the most widely used cloud service in Europe for planning, booking, managing, and expensing business travel. Over 3,400 customers including multinational corporations, mid-sized companies, and public institutions in 90+ countries use cytric. CRC integrates to provide hotel booking capabilities.
• AtlatoscoreTechnology or IntegrationAtlatos is a leading provider of end-to-end business travel solutions. Over 1,450 companies and 400,000+ business travelers use Atlatos services. Products include Atlatos Profi Traveller (booking) and Atlatos Expense Engine (expense management). CRC provides hotel booking integration.
• MICE PortalcoreTechnology or IntegrationMICE Portal enables simple, modern, and efficient event organization. With over 46,000 hotels and service providers and approximately 25,000 mediated events in 2016, MICE Portal is the market leader among event portals in Germany.
• ADAC Travel Management Services Papendick (TMS)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTraditional travel agency since 1946 specializing in business travel with modern systems and personalized service. Key account management includes CRC Hotel Portal for customer bookings.
• DER BUSINESS TravelminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPart of DER Touristik Group (REWE Group) with approximately 70 specialized business travel agencies in Germany. Offers comprehensive business travel planning, organization, and execution services including hotel booking through CRC.
• VDR (Verband Deutsches Reisemanagement)coreOthersGerman Association of Business Travel Management is Germany's largest network for business mobility management with 600+ member companies. Works with members and partners to develop sustainable, reliable, and safe business travel solutions. Over 50 years of experience representing member interests.
• HSMA Deutschland e.V.minorOthersHospitality Sales & Marketing Association Germany is the professional association for the hospitality industry, forming a network of over 1,500 members and a knowledge pool across all relevant specialist areas.
• CDS GroupeflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCDS Groupe is a hotel booking platform specializing in business travel headquartered in France. In 2023, CRC became part of CDS Groupe, significantly expanding international presence and creating synergies in technology, sales, and product/service offerings. Founder and CEO Ziad Minkara holds majority stake.
• HotelHubflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerHotelHub was acquired by S4BT in February 2026. The acquisition brought S4BT's annual hotel booking volume to over $5 billion, making it a leading global business travel provider with eight brands.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• HRS Group: HRS is a German-headquartered corporate hotel booking platform with central billing, payment and rate-negotiation capabilities. Like CRC it targets enterprise clients with closed corporate rates and integrates with OBE/TMC workflows, making it CRC's most direct European competitor.
• SAP Concur (Concur Travel): SAP Concur is both CRC's distribution channel and a competitor: its Concur Travel platform offers corporate hotel booking with integrated expense. CRC plugs into Concur as a hotel content broker, but Concur's own travel inventory and partner programs compete for the same corporate spend.
• cytric Travel & Expense (i:FAO): cytric is a leading European cloud OBE used by 3,400+ corporate customers for booking and expensing business travel. Like Atlatos, CRC integrates into cytric as a hotel broker while cytric's broader TMC offering competes with CRC on full-service enterprise contracts.
• Atlatos: Atlatos is a DACH-focused corporate travel and expense platform with Profi Traveller OBE serving 1,450+ companies. CRC integrates into Atlatos as a hotel broker, but Atlatos' own hotel content and TMC partnerships make it a partial competitor within the same DACH enterprise base.
• HotelHub: HotelHub is a UK-based corporate hotel booking platform that became an S4BT sister brand in February 2026. It is now part of the same parent group as CRC and competes most directly on enterprise hotel content and central billing in international markets where CRC is weaker.

Broad incumbents

• Amex GBT (American Express Global Business Travel): Amex GBT is the world's largest corporate TMC, offering end-to-end booking, expense and payment solutions including centralized hotel billing. It competes with CRC for multinational corporate accounts, though at vastly greater scale and with broader service scope.
• CWT (Carlson Wagonlit Travel): CWT is a long-established global corporate travel management provider serving large enterprises with hotel programs, central payments and expense integration. CRC competes with CWT primarily in mid-market and large multinational segments where CWT's scale and air/rail bundles are strong.
• Booking.com for Business: Booking.com for Business extends Booking Holdings' consumer hotel inventory and tech into the SME and corporate segment with negotiated rates and traveler management. It competes with CRC on hotel content breadth, though it lacks CRC's deep central-billing and OBE integration depth.
• BCD Travel: BCD Travel is a large global corporate travel management company providing hotel, air and rail booking with consolidated billing. Its corporate hotel program and payment solutions overlap directly with CRC's proposition at the enterprise RFP level.

Emerging players

• Navan (formerly TripActions): Navan is a fast-growing modern corporate travel and expense platform with AI-driven booking and a global hotel inventory. It overlaps with CRC's enterprise proposition in hotels and central billing but competes on UX, AI and global coverage rather than closed European corporate rate negotiation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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