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Sharing-Anbieter im Visier?
Shareconomy ist weitaus mehr als nur kurzfristige Mode, das ist unumstritten. Vielmehr stellt das Tauschen und Teilen die bisherigen Mechanismen unserer Wirtschaft und das Verhältnis zwischen Produzenten, Konsumenten und Politik vollständig auf den Kopf. Dass dies nicht reibungslos verlaufen kann, erscheint offensichtlich. Das zeigen immer wieder Probleme, die Sharing-Anbieter von Parkplätzen, Mitfahrgelegenheiten oder Unterkünften schildern. – read more on www.starting-up.de
Dortmund fordert Nutzerdaten von Gloveler ein
Die Stadt Dortmund will ihre neue Bettensteuer-Satzung offenbar auch für privat vermietete Wohnungen und Zimmer durchsetzen. Das berichtet das Portal Gloveler, das nach eigenen Angaben eine Aufforderung der Stadt erhalten hat, die Daten der Beherbergungen mitzuteilen, die es regelmäßig in Dortmund vermittelt. – read more on www.ahgz.de
Private accommodation more and more trendy
Hotel? Zu teuer. Jugendherberge? Zu wenig Privatsphäre. Das dachte sich KIT-Studentin Lara Marschner, als sie nach dem Abitur in ihrer Heimatstadt Saarbrücken nach einer Unterkunft in Karlsruhe suchte. – read more on gloveler.de
Alternatives to hotels are becoming more popular
Travellers these days are more and more likely choose a private accommodation. The types of accommodation range from a free place to sleep on the sofa for a person, known as couchsurfing, to luxury apartments that are offered via platforms such as Aribnb, Wimdu, 9Flats or Gloveler. The Consumer Association has examined the most popular alternatives to hotels for the upcoming issue of the magazine "Consumer". The result: consumers are happy, despite commercial legal gray areas and grumpy hotelier. – read more on help.orf.at
Trend: free couch instead of luxurious hotel
Prefer to be on a couch than in a hotel? - Staying in private accommodations has been a big trend. Choices of the so-called "Social Travelling" on the Internet is wide. So how does it actually work? – read more on www.merkur-online.de
Online booking portals in comparison
They are becoming increasingly popular: online portals where private accommodations are rented. "Travel & prices" has compared the five largest suppliers. – read more on www.focus.de
Shareconomy: Petition calls for better legislation
Privaterooms for rent, cars shared, fashion exchanged. So far, the legal situation has made it even more difficult. What is private and where does a commercial business begin? An online petition now calls for a clarification from the legislators. – read more on onlinehaendler-news.de
Eleven startups require user-friendly laws
Eleven startups in Germany want to drive politics towards the way of a properious economy for sharing freely through an online petition. – read more on netzwertig.com
Founder View - 9 questions to Armin Harbrecht of gloveler.de
In the Founder View, we regularly introduce start-ups in the region. Founded in Karlsruhe, but has been reaching far beyond the region - gloveler.de is an online booking platform for private accommodations all over the world. One of the minds behind gloveler is Armin Harbrecht, today he answered nine questions about the founder's life... – read more on www.cyberforum.de
Other ways to travel - More and more Internet portals providing private accommodations
Many have dreamt of a spontaneous weekend trip to a metropolis. However, this dream often fails due to high hotel prices. SocialTravelling offers here a cost effective alternative: Internet portals as intermediaries for individuals who wish to share their apartments and travelers looking for cheaper options. – read more on www.sparkasse-koelnbonn.de
gloveler - Earn money with your own apartment
Traveling, a passion shared by many people. However, the fact that the costs of traveling are usually expensive, is often the source of hesitation. A trend, which has emerged recently, is the renting of private accommodations. This not only provides a cheap alternative to hotels, but also brings other benefits. Especially for the landlords: How can I earn money with my own apartment? We have done the research for you. – read more on www.heimarbeit.de
Accommodation communities are in a difficult situation In Freiburg
An obnoxious catchword spooks in many places these days in the regional press: bed tax. This tax shall add money to the tills of the cities. – read more on www.basicthinking.de
City of Freiburg requires booking portals to provide data of all accomodation providers
Again, anger is all around the bed tax: The City Council has requested 35 booking portals to send the data of all Freiburg's accomodation providers. This has raised objections among accomodation agancies. Their private data is at risk. – read more on www.badische-zeitung.de
German accommodation platforms shall assign data
Sharing platforms for private accommodations are very successful, but also have trouble. Gloveler shall hand over user data. – read more on www.zeit.de
City council of Freiburg demands contact details of all booking platforms
The the bed tax in Freiburg angers many minds. The city council of Freiburg demands all user data from gloveler to expose potential tax evaders - data privacy is attacked. – read more on www.badische-zeitung.de
Sharing economy is of public relevance now
Competitors demand regulation of sharing economy. This sector has left its niche and achieved public relevance. – read more on netzwertig.com
gloveler criticises the release of user data
gloveler denies the access to user data to the city of Freiburg. The city council intends to claim data from accommodation platforms due to a controversial new bed tax. – read more on www.golem.de
It doesn't always have to be a hotel
More and more tourists favor private accommodations - for example at gloveler - instead of hotel rooms. This is generally cheaper and always individually. The market is rapidly growing und there are accommodations for any taste and any budget. – read more on www.test.de
Internet portals that rent private rooms, mix up the market for hotels
The offers of booking platforms grow rapidly. Providers who rent a room or a whole house, meet up with guests seeking a budget. Operating a hotel in the city, the prices of private landlords to offer heavy. – read more on www.zeit.de
Hotels lose drastically through online booking-platforms
Hotels are losing more and more bookings through online booking-platforms. On the other hand, bookings through internet portals in Germany have now increased to over 87 million nights booked per year. – read more on www.wiwo.de
Share your flat, car and even your karaoke machine via the internet
Many people have empty rooms in their houses or apartments that go unused, and everybody knows that situation, you buy something for a certain event and almost never use it again. Read about the possibilty to share your house, car and even karaoke machine via the internet. – read more on www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de
win-win
After her trip to Norway Brita Wieseke is sure:" We are now always booking our vacation-accommodations via private booking portals." Whether for vacation- or businesstrips, more and more travellers are choosing those portals. – read more on www.bild.de
Vacation saved!
New York, London, Berlin: Whoever stays at a private accommodation while travelling, can safe alot of money. This alternative to hotels and aparartments is the new travel-trend... – read more on www.guter-rat.de
Coordinate bedsharing!
Improve private bedsharing: the gloveler-team starts a new project vacancychannel. When talking about "the struggle for Germany's apartments" one competitor is rarely mentioned: "gloveler.de". However, gloveler has been the first german provider to offer the service on a commercial level... – read more on www.wiwo.de
Make money!
Guestrooms are quite popular. They used to be rooms that you have for relatives and friends, today they are rooms to make money - as a host, and to save money - as a guest. – read more on www.welt.de
Innovation award vacancychannel!
The Software-Initiative Deutschland e.V. (www.softwareinitiative.de, SID) has awarded gloveler's (www.gloveler.de, private accommodation platform) "vacancychannel with the SID-Innovation Award 2012 in the categorie "Travel Management . Valentina Kerst, SID's president, praises the software... – read more on www.softwareinitiative.de
Enjoy New Year's Eve
Whether you want a couch, a single bed room or a fully equipped cityapartment - gloveler with its 33.000 private accommodations in more than 3.300 cities and 53 countries has the perfect solution for everyone. – read more on www.traveller-news.com
Interview with founder Armin Harbrecht
Today i would like to present you an interview with an interesting startup from Karlsruhe. The answers to the questions, what does the firm actually do and how did it maintain its position with all those competitors in the last few years, will be answered in the interview with one of the founders... – read more on www.selbstaendig-im-netz.de
Bed needed!
Even three weeks after the start of the winter term, many new student are still looking for a place to stay. Help in transition is offered by private accommodation platform gloveler ( www.gloveler.de ) – read more on de.nachrichten.yahoo.com
Like Ebay
The name "Gloveler" is a combination of the english words "global" and "traveler", this seems to fit as gloveler's target group are travelers all around the globe. The private accommodation platform gloveler was founded by Andreas Sperber, Armin Harbrecht and Marco Umfahrer in 2009... – read more on www.wuv.de
gloveler tested!
The gloveler GmbH from Karlsruhe runs the platform since 2009. The service at gloveler.de is working: Request are answered fast and competently. In our test, gloveler has had the fewest accommodations... – read more on www.getestet.de
Kids leaving the house?
The kids are leaving the house, there is a unused room in your home? You are travelling and like to make some money with your apartment? Someone is moving out of the shared flat? Whoever would like to take some guests has found his/her perfect partner with gloveler.de. – read more on www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de
Get Feedback
The German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche looks back at last year finalists of its start-up competition. Marco Umfahrer, co-founder of gloveler, is cited that listening to the customers very closely was one of the most important success factors for gloveler. After starting with a very simple model for home owners to set prices for their accommodation, it is now possible for hosts to set prices depending on the number of guests and the number of nights booked in addition to offering special seasonal discounts. – read more on www.wiwo.de
Start-up gloveler.com offers accommodations worldwide
The Start-up gloveler.com from Karlsruhe wants to emphasize the personal aspect of traveling and make traveling with private accommodations as planable and bookable as a hotel room. Travelers can book cheap private rooms, vacancy rentals or holiday homes easily... – read more on www.ka-news.de
Living room instead of hotel
There is always free space on one's own couch. Under the name gloveler.com, Andreas Sperber, Armin Harbrecht and Marco Umfahrer started a booking system for private accommodations. The Team from Karlsruhe wants to make advertising... – read more on www.n-tv.de
A bed for the Wacken Open Air
There are no more tickets for the festival, but there are free accommodations: Three young entrepreneurs offer a platform for private accommodations for the wacken open air. Earn money while sleeping? That is possible like the founders of gloveler.com, Andreas Sperber, Armin Harbrecht and Marco Umfahrer show... – read more on gloveler.de
Winners from Karlsruhe
The winners of the "Gründerpreis - Mit Multimedia erfolgreich starten", Round 02/2008, have been honored at the CeBIT in Hannover. The founders of gloveler.com, Andreas Sperber, Armin Harbrecht, Marco Umfahrer and Rico Knapper created a booking system for private accommodations... – read more on gloveler.de
Young entrepreneurs awarded for their ideas at the CEBIT exhibition in Hannover
gloveler.com is a booking engine that provides a market place for private accommodation. "You can also stay at our place" says one of the founders, the 25-year old Marco Umfahrer from Karlsruhe... – read more on gloveler.de
Made by KIT - clicKIT 1.2009
A spare apartment in the off season; an airbed in a flat share as an accommodation for a music festival: How can you find such accommodations? The business engineers Armin Harbrecht, Andreas Sperber and Marco Umfahrer found an answer: gloveler.com... – read more on www.pkm.kit.edu
Traveling, advertising, shopping – A startup competition by the Wirtschaftswoche: The finalists
Booking hotel rooms and vacation homes via Internet is quite common nowadays. But you rarely find superior private rooms. gloveler.com fills this gap and makes the booking of a private accommodation as easy as making hotel reservations. Anyone who has a vacancy, can offer it on gloveler.com. Travelers then will see the pictures and descriptions and book their favorite room online... – read more on www.wiwo.de
Interview: Campus-Report at Uni-Radio Baden (Radio Regenbogen)
The second place for gloveler.com at the NewBizCup: five graduate business engineer students of Karlsruhe were successful in the nationwide businessplan competition... – read more on digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de
Uni-Team is successful at the national businessplan competition in BW
The team of the University of Karlsruhe (TH) gloveler.com finished second at the final round of the NewBizCup in Stuttgart. Their idea of an Internet platform for travelers came out on top of other university teams in Baden-Württemberg... – read more on www.pkm.kit.edu