TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring France-based hotel mobile application booking engine BookingBrick.
About Claude Bénard
Claude is a consultant and seasoned Travel 2.0 blogger hailing from Marseille, France. Claude started his career in tourism as a technical sales manager for a Marseille-based tour operator.
He then spent six years as a sales executive at Louvre Hotels group, before discovering the tremendous potential of the internet for the marketing of hotels and tourism.
Claude then became the sales and marketing manager for a regional booking engine for the Marseille Chamber of Commerce and DMO’s.
He now handles consulting and training for hotels and other DMOs. Claude manages his blog HoteliTour.
Web tour and activity marketplace heats up as Azurever stakes claim
July 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring France-based tour and activity platform Azurever.
TLabs Showcase – QGuide
April 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based LGBT travel network QGuide.
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Talking Travel Tech in France – Anne Chabot of Zevisit
August 30, 2010 By 1 Comment
In the seventh of a series of exclusive interviews, Claude Benard meets community manager for web guided tours company ZeVisit, based in Marseille, France.
Talking Travel Tech – Julien Laz of Cityzeum
May 4, 2010 By 1 Comment
In the sixth of a series of exclusive interviews, Claude Benard meets founder and CEO of Cityzeum, Julien Laz.
Talking Travel Tech – Klaus Kohlmayr of IDeaS
January 21, 2010 By 5 Comments
In the fifth of a series of exclusive interviews, Tnooz Node Claude Benard meets Klaus Kohlmayr, director of IDeaS Advantage.
Kohlmayr discusses how hotels can improve their yield and revenue management systems, ancillary revenues and takes questions from readers via Twitter.
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Talking Travel Tech: Ciaran Delaney of Meetingsbooker
January 19, 2010 By 3 Comments
In the fourth of a series of exclusive interviews, Tnooz Node Claude Benard meets chief executive of Meetingsbooker, Ciaran Delaney.
Delaney discusses how he created a business to solve a problem hundreds of hotels have with leasing space for meetings, growth opportunities in other markets, and the technology used to pull it all together.
Talking Travel Tech: Arnaud Bertrand of HouseTrip
October 21, 2009 By 3 Comments
In the third of a series of exclusive interviews, Tnooz Node Claude Benard meets chief executive of Swiss start-up HouseTrip, Arnaud Bertrand.
He discusses funding, partnerships, business models and wider travel trends in Europe.
Talking Travel Tech: Arnaud Bilquez of Air Valid
October 6, 2009 By 2 Comments
Arnaud Bilquez is claiming to lead a new form of travel reviewing, creating the new concept of NOW Reviews for the airline market.
Just as Twitter offers real-time news, searches and messaging, Google is now thinking about following the trend to provide users with more and more up-to-the-minute news.
Arnaud explains more about his mobile airline news application and the NOW Reviews for the airline market.
Talking Travel Tech: Philipe Fabry of Atout France
September 29, 2009 By 4 Comments
Tnooz Node in Marseille Claude Benard secured an exclusive interview with Phillipe Fabry, ICT executive at tourism development organisation Atout France.
Fabry explains how French DMOs and his own organisation are developing etourism strategies and embracing social media, mobile and complex technology to drive visitors to the country
