CRM Centrum für Reisemedizin GmbH | Fachinstitut der Thieme Verlagsgruppe

Name

CRM Centrum für Reisemedizin GmbH | Fachinstitut der Thieme Verlagsgruppe

Legal name

CRM Centrum für Reisemedizin GmbH

Website

https://crm.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Travel Medicine Education and Professional Training

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare & Clinical Professional Development (CME/CE) (EDAGANAJ)

Keywords

• Travel medicine education
• Medical professional training
• Continuing medical education
• Travel health consulting
• Vaccination counseling services

Headquarters

HQ city

Düsseldorf

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Annual Licensing Subscriptions (CRM Handbuch & eRef Packages): CRM generates recurring revenue through annual subscriptions for its professional knowledge products: the CRM Handbuch Reisemedizin at €99/year, the eRef Lizenzpaket Reisemedizin at €282/year, and the premium eRef Lizenzpaket Reisemedizin PLUS at €679/year. These provide access to digital handbooks, the consultation software, travel-medicine databases, and in the PLUS tier, unlimited seminar attendance.
2. Seminar and Conference Fees: CRM sells individual seminar registrations (both in-person and live-stream), including base seminars, refresher courses, advanced seminars, and the annual Forum Reisen und Gesundheit conference (€419). Fees range from €49 for short webinars up to €419 for the two-day congress, with group discounts available.
3. Professional Training Events: CRM organizes and charges for professional continuing education events including the Update Berufsrecht webinar (€49), Basis-Refresherseminar (€349), Aufbau-Refresherseminar, and specialty modules. Revenue is generated per participant registration.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

CRM Centrum für Reisemedizin provides CME-accredited travel medicine education, certification, and professional reference products for physicians, pharmacists, and medical assistants in Germany. Its core commercial offerings are annual subscription license packages (CRM Lizenzpaket eRef Reisemedizin and PLUS) that bundle access to the eRef online platform, the CRM travel.DOC [pro] consultation software, the annual CRM Handbuch Reisemedizin, and a training flatrate. The training division delivers a structured curriculum of basic, advanced, and refresher seminars culminating in the CRM Zertifikat / Fachzertifikat Reisemedizin, supported by the annual Forum Reisen und Gesundheit congress.

Product overview

CRM Centrum für Reisemedizin operates as a specialized educational and advisory institute within the Thieme publishing group, offering a portfolio of digital products, professional publications, and training services for travel medicine practitioners in Germany. The core offering consists of subscription-based license packages (CRM Lizenzpaket eRef Reisemedizin and CRM Lizenzpaket eRef Reisemedizin PLUS) which provide access to the eRef digital platform containing the CRM travel.DOC [pro] consultation tool, online handbooks, specialist information, and patient materials. Physical publications include the annual CRM Handbuch Reisemedizin. The training division (CRM Akademie) delivers foundational and advanced seminars (Basisseminare, Aufbauseminare, Refresherseminare), culminating in the Fachzertifikat Reisemedizin, while the annual Forum Reisen und Gesundheit congress provides continuing education. Supporting services include the weekly CRM spot newsletter and the UPDATE Weltseuchenlage quarterly webinar series.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CRM Handbuch Reisemedizin: Standard reference handbook for travel medicine consultations
• CRM Handbuch Reisen mit Risiko
• CRM travel.DOC [pro]
• CRM Lizenzpaket eRef Reisemedizin
• CRM Lizenzpaket eRef Reisemedizin PLUS
• CRM spot Newsletter
• Forum Reisen und Gesundheit
• CRM Akademie
• CRM updates

Products and services

• CRM Lizenzpaket eRef Reisemedizin PLUS Full-service annual digital subscription package (€679/year incl. VAT) for travel-medicine professionals, covering 1-3 users and including access to eRef travel-medicine content, CRM travel.DOC [pro] consultation software, online handbooks, CRM updates, patient information sheets, FTR journal, working materials, consiliary service, unlimited attendance at all CRM training events, plus annual printed copies of CRM Handbuch Reisemedizin and CRM Handbuch Reisen mit Risiko.
• CRM Lizenzpaket eRef Reisemedizin Standard annual digital subscription package (€282/year incl. VAT) for practices with 1-3 users, including eRef travel-medicine content, CRM travel.DOC [pro] consultation program, CRM Handbuch online, CRM updates, patient information sheets, journal access, working materials, and consiliary service. PLUS license holders receive free seminar attendance.
• CRM Handbuch Reisemedizin Annual travel-medicine reference handbook available as an entry-level subscription (€99/year incl. VAT), covering country-specific information from A-Z, travel vaccinations, malaria prophylaxis, disease distribution maps, and online access via eRef. Includes both print and online editions.
• CRM travel.DOC [pro] Web-based structured consultation program for healthcare professionals that guides them through a travel-medicine consultation — covering patient history, itinerary, vaccination planning, malaria risk assessment, and prophylaxis recommendations — and produces personalized vaccination plans and consultation protocols as PDF documents. Includes AI-powered Symptoma symptom analysis integration.
• CRM Basisseminar (Block 1 & 2) Entry-level 32-hour training course based on the German Medical Association curriculum, providing foundational knowledge for travel medicine counseling and leading to the CRM Zertifikat Reise und Tropenmedizin. Delivered in-person at German cities (Düsseldorf, Munich, Berlin, Mannheim, Dresden, Nuremberg) and via live-stream/Video-on-Demand.
• CRM Aufbauseminare (3-9) Seven specialized advanced seminars covering flight and altitude medicine, diving medicine, geographic medicine, international work assignments, risk groups, and travel assistance medicine, leading to the CRM Fachzertifikat Reisemedizin. Delivered in-person and via live-stream.
• CRM Basis-Refresherseminar Eight-hour refresher course priced at €349 (incl. VAT) required every two years for maintaining certification and listing in the CRM registry of qualified travel-medicine counseling centers. Includes video recordings for 24 months, seminar materials download, printed seminar folder (in-person only), and catering (in-person only).
• Forum Reisen und Gesundheit Annual two-day travel-medicine congress held in Berlin (next: 12-13 March 2027 at Leonardo Royal Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz, Special 'Reisen nach Asien'), priced at €419 (incl. VAT) per person with 12 CME credits, industry exhibition, and a 25% group discount from the second participant onwards.
• UPDATE Weltseuchenlage Quarterly 60-minute webinar series bundled as a 4-session annual package (€99 incl. VAT) providing updates on global disease outbreaks and health risks, presented by Prof. Dr. Tomas Jelinek. Free for eRef PLUS license holders.
• UPDATE Berufsrecht für Arbeits- und Betriebsmediziner New 90-minute webseminar (€49 incl. VAT) for occupational and company physicians providing an update on central legal questions for international work assignments, covering confidentiality, documentation duties, vaccination law, limits of employer directive authority, and compliance with occupational medicine standards. Includes 24-month video-recording access and downloadable materials.
• Reisemedizinische Länderinformationen Country-specific travel medicine database covering vaccination requirements and recommendations, disease outbreaks, and health risks for destinations worldwide, available to licensed professionals via the CRM website and the eRef platform.

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability2 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Thieme GruppecoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerCRM Centrum für Reisemedizin operates as a specialized institute (Fachinstitut) of the Thieme Verlagsgruppe. CRM's digital products (eRef Lizenzpakete) are distributed exclusively through Thieme's e-commerce platform (shop.thieme.de) and eRef online knowledge portal (eref.thieme.de), leveraging Thieme's brand, distribution infrastructure, and existing customer relationships in the German medical publishing market. CRM also publishes the journal 'Flug-, Tropen- und Reisemedizin' as part of Thieme's portfolio.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH: Major German-language medical publisher and CME provider, owned by Springer Nature. Comparable business model combining medical publishing, digital reference platforms, and accredited CME for German healthcare professionals, with substantially broader portfolio scale.

Emerging players

• Medmastery: International digital CME platform offering video-based accredited courses to physicians. Comparable CME-and-certification value proposition delivered through a modern, scalable format that could pressure legacy seminar-led CME providers like CRM.
• AMBOSS GmbH: Berlin-based digital clinical knowledge and CME platform widely adopted by German physicians and medical students. Represents the digital-native threat to CRM's seminar-and-handbook model, with comparable end user base and expanding CME catalog.

Direct peers

• International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM): Global professional society for travel medicine providing CTH® certification, conferences, and Body of Knowledge resources. International counterpart to CRM with comparable mission and offerings, useful for benchmarking certification and congress formats.
• Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin (BNITM): Hamburg-based tropical medicine institute running its own travel-medicine courses, certificates, and clinics for German physicians. Directly comparable training-and-certification business with similar curriculum depth.
• Deutsche Fachgesellschaft für Reisemedizin (DFR): German professional society for travel medicine referenced directly in CRM's own commentary on Dengue vaccination. Operates as an overlapping clinical authority in the same travel-medicine CME and certification space in Germany.
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Tropenmedizin und Globale Gesundheit (DTG): Germany's main scientific society for tropical and travel medicine, offering competing CME-accredited courses and certification. Comparable target audience (German physicians) and overlapping curriculum in travel and tropical medicine.

Regional players

• TravelHealthPro (NaTHNaC, UK): UK government-funded travel-health information and clinical guidance service. Operates the same playbook (country-by-country advice, outbreak alerts, professional resources) but for the UK market — a useful parallel for CRM's German-speaking country-information database.

Others

• Auswärtiges Amt – Reisemedizin: German Federal Foreign Office publishes free country-by-country travel-health and safety information. Functions as a public-sector substitute for CRM's paid Länderinformationen database and a structural ceiling on what practitioners will pay for similar content.
• Robert Koch-Institut (RKI): Germany's federal public health agency and central institution for infectious disease surveillance. Not a commercial peer, but publishes free, authoritative traveler-health information and STIKO vaccination guidance that competes with CRM's paid knowledge products.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/georgthiemeverlag
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/crm-centrum-f%C3%BCr-reisemedizin-gmbh-fachinstitut-der-thieme-verlagsgruppe
• Instagraminstagram.com/thieme_verlag

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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