Category: News

Reisenetz membership

The year 2026 is off to a great start – ASSD has been a member of Reisenetz, the German professional association for child and youth travel, since 01.01.2026. We are very much looking forward to the future cooperation and lively exchange!

Safe travel for children and young people requires trust in quality – the Travel Network is one of the most active and largest networks in this area. Its members come from all areas of the industry. Together, they are particularly concerned about safe travel for children and young people.

The mission statement of the travel network speaks for itself:

“The members of Reisenetz are an independent network of commercial and non-profit organizations from Germany and abroad. We offer services for children and youth travel as tour operators, providers of educational programs, accommodation, transport companies, insurance or as consultants. Our members work in partnership with each other and the exchange of ideas between colleagues is important to us. We work for sustainable, educationally responsible travel for children and young people and create spaces for positive, development-promoting experiences. We advocate cultural diversity and the participation of all children and young people in children’s and youth travel.

Xenophobia and any kind of discrimination, especially against marginalized groups, is at odds with our international, cosmopolitan and democratic self-image. Compliance with and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is a very important goal for us. A particular focus is on the prevention of sexualized violence in child and youth travel.

We are committed to fair competition and sensible legal framework conditions. We continuously support the professionalization of travel for children and young people and set binding standards for the quality of our members’ offers.”

12/01/2026
Merry Christmas

On behalf of our entire team, we would like to sincerely thank our customers for their loyalty, trust and excellent cooperation.

We wish you all and your families a Merry Christmas and look forward to achieving new goals together in 2026.

Sincerely, Your ASSD Team

15/12/2025
November is anniversary month

November at ASSD is full of anniversaries:

Exactly one year ago, on November 1, 2024, Kai Niedermeyer became a member of the ASSD family and no one can recall what it was like without him. He enriches the team with authenticity, good spirit and great fun as well as an open ear as trusted person for his colleagues.

Kai does a brilliant job as Head of Sales and loves (quote) “hunting and closing new customers”.

Besides ASSD, Kai loves spending time with his family and is a devoted father of two boys, making sure he doesn’t miss a single of their Basketball Games. He is a bit of a petrol head, loves cooking and good food as well as good wine – no wonder and almost a must, as he is half French. On top, he likes travelling and to see the world.

Many thanks, Kai, for your inspiring commitment, your support and your incomparable and indispensable contribution.

11/11/2025
Anniversary

Congratulations on eight years with the company, Alexandra Salazar!

Alexandra joined the team of the ASSD Hospitality Management Software for Hostels and Hotels on November 1, 2017. Right from the start she has known the software inside out as Alexandra used to work for various Berlin hostels driven by the ASSD PMS. As a result, she is one of our top first-responders in support, is actively involved in the software roll-out, gives ASSD training courses and creates the posts on our ASSD YouTube channel.

In her private life, Alexandra is an absolute soccer and Formula 1 fan and will go to heaven and hell to see a Bruce Springsteen concert live. She also enjoys traveling, baking amazing cakes and can hardly say no to a good book.

A thousand thanks for your great work, we really appreciate your professionalism and commitment. Here’s to the next eight (or even better eighty :-)) years!

04/11/2025
WTM London 2025

From November 4 to 6, 2025, the World Travel Mart WTM will take place in London and ASSD Hotel and Hostel Software will be there as an exhibitor.

Kai Niedermeyer and Anna-Lena Rösler from the ASSD team await you at the London Exhibition Centre Excel at stand S3-118. Come by and let us show you our web-based software for hotels and hostels with web check-in, housekeeping app, unique group handling, numerous automated processes such as room allocation and much more. And while you’re there, enjoy one of our delicious coffees.

Please contact Kai directly for appointments: kai.niedermeyer[at]assd.com.

We look forward to your visit!

28/10/2025
A look behind the scenes

Today we want to take a look behind the scenes at ASSD and introduce one of our valued employees, as we celebrate the fifth anniversary of our colleague Alexander Noppenberger. He is a Senior Developer and joined our team exactly five years ago.

At the moment, Alex is mainly working on a functionality concerning automatic e-mails. As soon as an e-mail is placed in a special folder, the ASSD PMS automatically knows what to answer or which PMS response to make. Ingenious!

Alexander Noppenberger’s hobbies include restoring old games consoles and programming in his spare time – true passion knows no bounds :-). Alex is also a big fan of long-distance travel, which he undertakes together with his Colombian wife. And as soon as he has some time left over, he brushes up on his Spanish.

Alex, we are very happy to have you on the team and look forward to the next five years with you. Thank you for your active support!

01/09/2025
Office inauguration

In July, ASSD moved into new, additional offices and inaugurated them in style. On the one hand with bread and salt to ensure happiness and success in the future and on the other, of course, with Prosecco.

We used the following day for a team excursion. During a professional guided tour of Munich’s wholesale market halls, we learned a lot about the central hub for fruit and vegetables as well as about the food itself.

We then satisfied our appetite with veal sausage and pretzels. A worthy, typically Bavarian conclusion for our great team.

A few impressions from the inauguration party and our team outing

04/08/2025
Participation in the reading festival

As a sponsor of the non-profit Munich association Lesefüchse e.V., ASSD GmbH was invited to take part in its 17th reading festival as an honorary reader.

The event took place at the Grünwald Forest Experience Center, just outside Munich. 200 children from various elementary school traveled to the event and spent a wonderful morning in and with nature.

Claudia Stolz read from Marianne Hofmann’s book “Die kleine Birke” on behalf of ASSD. Other sponsors and honorary readers were the St. Michaelsbund media house and the Munich police, who were the absolute highlight for the children with several chief marshals, a chief inspector and the vice president as well as the reading fox.

From left: Dr. Claudia Pecher (St. Michaelsbund), Cornelia Ziegler (Head of the Forest Experience Centre), Christian Huber (Vice President of the Police), Claudia Stolz (ASSD GmbH)

Language is the basis of everything we do (not just programming languages :-)). That is why it is very important to us to awaken a love of books, reading and stories.

Claudia Stolz with reading fox

14/07/2025
CRS direct for allotments

The ASSD PMS now offers the great option of creating customer logins for event organizers and corporate customers. Customers can use the CRSdirect tool to book their contract rates and previously agreed allotments directly.

Depending on whether it is a room booking or a larger group, there are four different options for entering the number of rooms or guests. There is also a wide range of configuration options available.

A great, digital facilitation for the front office and the reservation department as well as for your contract partners.

12/06/2025
Group Web Check-In

For individual travelers, online check-in has been a much-used standard for years. Now our new additional web check-in, which has been specially developed for large groups, has been expanded and completed.

This new product offers a simple solution to inform the booking guest about the room layout (without disclosing the actual room numbers). If necessary, the gender breakdown is also indicated.

A few days before arrival, the group leader receives a tool with which the personal data of the participants can be recorded very easily, either directly online or via upload/download with Excel. It creates a room list, a registration form if necessary and in future will also offer the option of transmitting catering requests such as allergies etc.

22/05/2025