Germany: Carlo Zachau Joins bookingkit as New Chief Sales Officer

Carlo Zachau recently joined Berlin’s start-up company bookingkit as new Chief Sales Officer. In his new position, Carlo will be responsible for bookingkit’s global distribution, business development and B2B-marketing. Previously, he has been working in several management positions at the hotel reservation platform booking.com as well as for the consultancy company Tapptic, headquartered in Brussels.

“The huge leisure and recreation industries are not even one-fifth of the way digitized and this offers excellent opportunities for further growth of the company. bookingkit now offers an industry-leading software solution for each provider, as well as for marketplaces and portals,” said Zachau. Furthermore, Zachau will be expanding and internationalizing the partner network: “Our goal is to be the number one in Europe, we want to digitize and inspire the entire industry,” he continued.

Among the company’s customers is the German BELANTIS amusement park (c.f. EAP news from August 18^th, 2016), profiting from the software solution as a channel manager and technology platform that is also used by travel agencies and market places for real-time bookings. This past Friday, bookingkit also announced its strategic partnership with mydays – one of Europe’s leading providers within the business of experience gift vouchers – to join forces and extend the outreach of both providers. (eap)