We spoke to one of the Co-founders of Crewfare, Jordan Scheffler, about the travel booking platform and how it can take the stress out of organising the travel for your next event.
Crewfare is a startup that customises travel solutions for event organisers and delegates that gives organisers the ability to capitalise on travel while providing delegates with a streamlined and simpler booking solution.
The programme was founded in 2021 by Jordan Scheffler, Jason van-Esso, and Zach Picon: “We all came from the events world, I used to produce large music festivals and events, Jason produced destination trips, and Zach was in the hospitality world. Something we always found was that there’s lots of solutions out there for one person travelling to a destination, but there really aren’t great solutions for group travel. Coming from that world, we wanted to allow event organisers to monetise and streamline that process, while also giving attendees better opportunities to travel, and give them better ways of doing so,” Jordan explains.
Jordan describes the benefits of using Crewfare for event planners: “We’ve created tools to help event organisers with managing room blocks, sending out private links to different groups for their booking, sourcing group blocks in their areas, and basically everything in between. We want to be a 360-degree centralised software where event organisers can come in and manage every aspect of group travel.”
Crewfare offers a range of different products for all travel booking needs. Launchpad is a tool for organisers to simplify some of the event planning processes. Jordan tells us the typical customer experience for event organisers: “You go from sending out an RFP (request for proposal) for your event, to contracting within the system, to negotiating rates, and then uploading them to a booking portal called backstage, for your customers to book right there and then. So, you source on Launchpad, and sell and manage everything else on Backstage.”
Jordan explained the changes he’s seen travel booking for events since Crewfare was founded three years ago, saying: “When we first started, everyone wanted to talk about event travel, that’s what made us so exciting, nobody had really thought about making money from travel. Now we’re at the point where hotels themselves are starting to think about how they can get connected with experiences. Event planners want to find ways to get more involved in experiences outside of the normal. I think there’s a much larger focus on large scale event travel and how it ties into what everybody’s doing, not just the attendee and event organiser.”
Jordan tells us why Crewfare offers an easy solution to event planner’s travel booking needs: “Our goal is to completely centralise all of the different processes for group travel in one place, instead of doing everything on spreadsheets and working with different platforms, we want to make your job as easy as possible by giving you tools internally to make it happen. As a young company that’s growing and is really focused on technology, we don’t have the red tape of a large roadmap that we can’t make any changes, so we can do anything that event planners would like to see. Our goal is to really customise the software based on feedback, and we’re
in the early stages where we want to keep refining our services, so we’re very agile.” Crewfare.com