happyhotel story
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How was happyhotel created?
During his final thesis, Sebastian came across a problem that many hoteliers share! How can the prices for a room be better predicted? What should the prices be based on and how can they be determined? Unfortunately, many hoteliers deal with these questions far too little! Often they just trust their feeling and look at the prices of the competition to align themselves accordingly. Sebastian was not satisfied with this and created a calculation to be able to predict prices better. Despite his lack of programming skills, he tried to set up the calculation on his own using Excel. In the next step, Marius and Rafael helped him to implement the idea technically and started programming the Revenue Management Software. In conclusion that’s how the story of happyhotel started.
The founding team of happyhotel
Together we can manage to build a company from a common idea. We all bring experience from start-ups, which gives us a big advantage in many situations. Rafael was the first employee at sevDesk, one of the largest accounting tools in Germany. Marius also worked at sevDesk until the beginning of 2020 and was able to gain a lot of experience there in development and automations, as well as in data analysis. Sebastian was born as a hotelier’s child to become an entrepreneur. Through his family, which still runs the Waldhotel in Eisenberg, he came to the hotel industry and lives for it! To sum up we have a lot of experience and we are willing to build a modern company.
We complement each other perfectly as a team
In conclusion we cover all areas ourselves and have start-up experience.
We are strong – together!
We are a fast-growing start-up from Offenburg. Our goal is to automate hotel management processes. The hotel industry is a large sector and internationally networked. Consequently our software is used worldwide and helps hotels to generate more revenue. As a result, using our algorithm, we automate your revenue management and provide many different analyses.
Our Team
Through our strong team and internal development, we have a great competitive advantage #team spirit
We grow together
We all believe that we can make happyhotel become big. #ThinkBig
Our Culture & Values
Think like an entrepreneur: So be a problem solver, willing to take risks, convince with your initiative.
Never without my team: Fun, culture and passion are in the foreground. Let’s celebrate our success together.
Be authentic and open minded: We are open, honest, fair and open-minded.
Our Latest Blog Posts
In our blog, we go into more detail on various topics from the hotel industry and share our knowledge & experiences. Above it all you can find the latest news from hospitality industry.
How do I increase the turnover in my hotel – Turnover increase made simple
Increasing turnover in a hotel is probably the goal of all hoteliers. You can spend a lot of money on marketing and hope to increase occupancy.
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Will the Revenue Manager still exist in the future?
We explain what a revenue manager does and why they are one of the most important people in a hotel. But how do you become a revenue manager and what do you need? And the most important question, will this job still exist in the future?
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How do top hotels keep track of their bookings (Pickup Report)?
Many of us know the problem that we can quickly record how many new bookings came into the system via the PMS system. However, for which period and through which channel and how high the occupancy is for this period is difficult to capture.
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