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The Company’s B2B Brand, RateHawk, launched in 2016, is an online hotel-booking platform designed for travel professionals. The platform provides access to more than 1 million accommodations worldwide through its API and web product. The Group sources its inventory – hotels, apartments, and hostels from 85 suppliers worldwide and 29,000 direct hotel contracts. RateHawk is used by over 9,500 travel professionals in Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Africa. The Company employs business development staff in 28 countries. The site is available in nine languages – English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, and Russian.RateHawk’s turnover grew by over 300% in 2018. Last year, the service started operating in 21 new markets: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.&nbsp;The Company plans to more than double its international staff to scale RateHawk and to continue its investments in technology.Felix Shpilman, Emerging Travel Group’s CEO, commented: “We are excited to scale RateHawk, our fast-growing global B2B service. RateHawk has demonstrated strong traction in all of its 28 launched countries and we continue to open new markets by deploying <a href="https://www.ratehawk.com/blog/categories/jobs/">local business development teams</a>. We intend to focus on the product, localization, and customer support to make RateHawk the default booking engine for any travel professional worldwide.”Lev Leviev, who will be representing investors on the Company’s Board of Directors, commented: "We are very impressed with the company’s traction. B2C maintains its leading position in the local market while B2B continues its fast growth across many regions. The Company has a clear strategy, focus, and solid execution capabilities to unlock further growth and value.”For Western and Southern Europe: RateHawk plans to hire commercial team of 50+ managers with a focus on business development. The Company plans to establish business relationships with 10,000+ partners over the next 12 months (a penetration level of ~25-30% of the B2B travel market in each country).For Central, Eastern and Northern Europe (the Baltic States, Balkans, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia): RateHawk plans to strengthen its team with an additional 25 employees in 20 countries to develop and maintain its positions in the region. Over the next year, RateHawk intends to sign up 6,000+ partners (a penetration level of ~45% of the B2B travel market in 20 countries).For North America (the USA and Canada): RateHawk will enter the region by establishing two commercial teams: one in the USA and one in Canada to secure simultaneous development. It plans to add 3,000+ partners to its portfolio in the region within one year.For the Middle East (Israel, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and Turkey): RateHawk intends to strengthen its presence in this region and open a headquarters in Dubai. The Company plans to triple its current number of partners within the next 12 months in the Gulf Cooperation Council markets (reaching over 1,700 partners in total). As for Turkey, RateHawk will double the existing team and triple the number of partners to sign up 2,500+ travel professionals.For Asia (Singapore and Malaysia): RateHawk plans to enter the region with a team of ~5 commercial managers and will focus on Singapore and Malaysia. Within a year, RateHawk plans to sign up a portfolio of 1,500+ partners.

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Emerging Travel Group (further – “the Company”), an international online travel group that operates in over 100 source markets with brands RateHawk, ZenHotels, and Ostrovok, has closed a $10M financing round led by technology entrepreneur Lev Leviev of LVL1 Group and the family office of Playrix co-founders, Igor and Dmitri Bukhman. The investment aims to accelerate the development and further international expansion of the Group.

Emerging Travel Group raises $10M in investments from a consortium of investors led by LVL1 Group

<div class="container"> Davide Amaro has over 15 years of experience in tourism as a strategic consultant at the European level and as an international team manager. He has previously worked in leading companies in the tourism sector such as WebBeds, HRS.com and NH Hoteles among others, specializing in large commercial projects in the B2B sector. In his new role for RateHawk, Davide has joined Samia Lahlou, who has been the Business Development Manager in RateHawk&rsquo;s Spanish team since January 2019. Samia has more than 20 years of experience in sales and marketing in multinational companies, including Cathay Pacific and Air France KLM. Together, Davide and Samia will continue to strengthen RateHawk&rsquo;s position on the Spanish and Portuguese markets. Felix Shpilman, CEO of RateHawk, commented: &ldquo;RateHawk already has partners in over 100 countries globally and cooperates with over 7,500 travel agencies. At the same time, we believe that there is a huge need in the Spanish and Portuguese markets for a user-friendly, high-tech, and supply-rich B2B hotel booking system. Therefore, we plan to continue our expansion in these countries and, over the long run, to make our product the preferred travel tool for all travel professionals globally. With our enhanced sales team, we will be better positioned to deliver our innovative engine to local travel industry professionals fully.&rdquo; On his appointment, Davide Amaro commented: &ldquo;I am excited to be joining RateHawk and to take the company&rsquo;s growth strategy forward. RateHawk&rsquo;s supply of over 1 million unique properties globally sourced from 85+ of the world&rsquo;s best hotel suppliers, combined with cutting edge technology, a user-friendly interface, and excellent service provides tremendous value to our agency partners as we continue to scale up.&rdquo; RateHawk&rsquo;s mapping algorithms enable aggregating, processing, and deduplicating hotel content from both retail and wholesale players. RateHawk utilizes content prioritization systems, rate mixing mechanisms, various data structuring methods, advanced pricing, and inventory management systems for different channels, POS, and customer segments. Combining innovative technologies and extensive professional experience, RateHawk provides travel players with the world&rsquo;s most comprehensive hotel-booking backend technology. </div>

RateHawk.com (Emerging Travel Group), an online booking tool for travel professionals including travel agents and corporate travel bookers, announces the expansion of its Spanish team – RateHawk has appointed Davide Amaro as a Senior Sales Manager in Spain and Portugal.

RateHawk.com expands its team in Spain

Nur etwa halb so häufig werden von der europäischen Bevölkerung Stuttgart (8%) und Dresden (7%)&nbsp;zu touristischen Zwecken besucht. Am wenigsten hat man Hannover (3%) und Bremen (3%) zu Urlaubszwecken besucht.Laut der Umfrage ist Berlin die meistbesuchte Stadt Deutschlands: die Befragten besuchen diese Stadt zu touristischen Zwecken am häufigsten (59%). München steht auf dem zweiten Platz unter Freizeitreisezielen (33%). Frankfurt steht auf dem dritten Platz (19%).Köln steht auf dem vierten Platz – diese Stadt wurde von 16% der Befragten zu touristischen Zwecken besucht. Der fünfte Platz wurde von Düsseldorf und Hamburg mit jeweils 15% belegt.Nur etwa halb so häufig werden von der europäischen Bevölkerung Stuttgart (8%) und Dresden (7%)&nbsp;zu touristischen Zwecken besucht. Am wenigsten hat man Hannover (3%) und Bremen (3%) zu Urlaubszwecken besucht.<img class="image_resized" style="width:984px;" src="https://ostrovok-etg.s3.amazonaws.com/images/storage/2019/05/15/screen-shot-2019-04-24-at-152340.png" alt="">Berlin hat auch unter den meistbesuchten Städten für Dienstreisen den ersten Platz belegt: 43% aller Befragten waren auf Dienstreisen in der deutschen Hauptstadt.Jedoch wurde zu Geschäftszwecken Frankfurt (27%) öfter als München (21%) besucht. Der vierte Platz wurde von Düsseldorf belegt: Dienstreisen in diese Stadt wurden von 13% der Befragten gemacht.&nbsp;Hamburg hat den fünften Platz belegt (11%). Fast genauso oft wird Stuttgart von den Einwohnern Europas besucht (10%), etwas seltener Köln (8%).Am seltensten ist man in Dresden (3%), Hannover (3%) und Bremen (2%) auf Dienstreisen.&nbsp;<img class="image_resized" style="width:984px;" src="https://ostrovok-etg.s3.amazonaws.com/images/storage/2019/05/15/screen-shot-2019-04-24-at-152413.png" alt="">

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Im März hat der Hotelbuchungsservice ZenHotels.com eine Umfrage unter den europäischen Benutzern durchgeführt, um festzustellen, welche Städte Deutschlands zu den gefragtesten Reisezielen für Freizeittourismus und Geschäftsreisen bei der europäischen Bevölkerung zählen.

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Die beliebtesten Städte Deutschlands für Freizeittouren und Geschäftsreisen

<div class="container"> Zgodnie z wynikami badania większość biur podr&oacute;ży (88%) stwierdziła, że ​​najpopularniejszą usługą przy zakupie wycieczki jest organizacja indywidualnego transferu dla turyst&oacute;w. Drugą najbardziej pożądaną usługą był wynajem samochodu &ndash; 36% ankietowanych biur podr&oacute;ży stwierdziło, że ich klienci uznali to za potrzebne. Pierwszą tr&oacute;jkę zamyka organizacja wycieczek indywidualnych &ndash; 14% respondent&oacute;w wskazało, że jest to konieczne dla turyst&oacute;w planujących podr&oacute;ż. Prawie tyle samo agent&oacute;w (13%) wskazało konieczność zam&oacute;wienia usług concierge dla turyst&oacute;w, takich jak organizacja kwiat&oacute;w, darmowego prezentu do pokoju hotelowego, gratulacji z okazji obchodzonego święta itp. Okazuje się, że turyści najrzadziej szukają pomocy w uzyskaniu wizy lub ubezpieczenia &ndash; 11% biur podr&oacute;ży zapewniało tego typu usługi swoim klientom. Innymi popularnymi usługami była rezerwacja miejsca parkingowego w hotelu oraz organizacja dodatkowego wyżywienia. Felix Shpilman, Dyrektor Generalny Emerging Travel Group, skomentował: &bdquo;Poza usługami najbardziej poszukiwanymi przez turyst&oacute;w, regularnie spotykamy się z prośbami o zorganizowanie wczesnego zameldowania lub p&oacute;źnego wymeldowania, zarezerwowanie wybranej kategorii pokoju, wynajęcie jachtu lub łodzi, zaplanowanie wyjątkowej wycieczki.&rdquo; </div>

W marcu 2019 r. serwis rezerwacji internetowych dla specjalistów z branży turystycznej RateHawk.com (Emerging Travel Group) przeprowadził ankietę wśród polskich biur podróży, aby dowiedzieć się, jakie usługi dodatkowe, poza standardowym pakietem turystycznym (hotel + lot), cieszą się największym zainteresowaniem turystów.

Najpopularniejsze usługi dodatkowe przy wyborze wycieczki

<div class="container"> Felix Shpilman, az Emerging Travel Group vez&eacute;rigazgat&oacute;ja megjegyezte: &lsquo;Az elm&uacute;lt k&eacute;t &eacute;vben Eur&oacute;pa, D&eacute;l-Amerika &eacute;s Afrika piacain tev&eacute;kenykedt&uuml;nk, &eacute;s &ouml;r&ouml;m&uuml;nkre szolg&aacute;l, hogy v&eacute;gre Magyarorsz&aacute;gon is elindulhatunk. T&ouml;bb mint 6000 utaz&aacute;sszervező &uuml;gyfel&uuml;nk 100-n&aacute;l is t&ouml;bb piacon haszn&aacute;lja szolg&aacute;ltat&aacute;sainkat. C&eacute;lunk, hogy 2019 v&eacute;g&eacute;re partnereink sz&aacute;m&aacute;t 15 000-re emelj&uuml;k, amelyhez a magyar partnereink is jelentősen hozz&aacute;j&aacute;rulnak&rsquo;. A RateHawk 2016-ban alakult, &eacute;s ahogyan a ZenHotels, az Ostrovok &eacute;s a B2B.Ostrovok, szint&eacute;n az Emerging Travel Group r&eacute;sze. A v&aacute;llalat sz&eacute;khelye az Eur&oacute;pai Uni&oacute;n bel&uuml;l, Cipruson tal&aacute;lhat&oacute;. A 2018-as teljes&iacute;tm&eacute;nyadatok t&ouml;bb mint 300%-os n&ouml;veked&eacute;st mutatnak 2017-hez k&eacute;pest. Az oldal jelenleg nyolc nyelven &eacute;rhető el: angol, n&eacute;met, francia, olasz, spanyol, lengyel, portug&aacute;l &eacute;s orosz, de m&aacute;r dolgozunk tov&aacute;bbi ford&iacute;t&aacute;sokon is, &iacute;gy hamarosan magyar nyelven is el&eacute;rhető lesz. Az online sz&aacute;ll&aacute;sfoglal&aacute;s mellett a v&aacute;llalat csoportos &eacute;s egy&eacute;ni sz&aacute;llodai foglal&aacute;sokat, transzfereket &eacute;s aut&oacute;k&ouml;lcs&ouml;nz&eacute;st is k&iacute;n&aacute;l. </div>

Az Emerging Travel Grouphoz tartozó RateHawk.com, az utazási szakembereknek, utazási irodáknak és vállalati utazásszervezőknek készített online rendszere, most már a magyar piacon is elérhető. A RateHawk.com oldalán világszerte 220 ország több, mint 1 millió szálláshellye foglalható online az utazásszervezők számára.

Elindult a RateHawk.com profi utazászervezőknek nyújtott online foglalási szolgáltatása