From now on you will only talk to real people, real experts, real travel agents!
Our team of dedicated travel experts has been stadily growing as we have started to offer our travel service for an increasing amount of racing series. We speak many different languages - mainly English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. We are modern, available online, and we value the direct contact with you. Therefore, we travel to different racetracks several times a year to meet you right in the center of the action!
We are not an anonymous travel agency. We want you to know exactly who you will be working with. Therefore, we took the time and put together a few details about our travel agents. Which languages do they speak? Which racing series do they concentrate on? How can you reach them? Have a look!
Managing Directors
In 1998, Manuela Schiffner and Claudia Lüdi founded their own travel agency. They wanted to offer a specialized travel service for motorsport racing teams that had not existed so far. During the last 20 years, they have managed to see their company grow and evolve into the leading travel agency in the field.
Manuela Schiffner
Managing Director
Over 20 years ago, Manuela decided that it was time to introduce a travel agency to the motorsport world, that truly specialized on its specific needs. Since M&C Travel Events’ foundation in 1998, Manuela constantly worked on expanding to more and more racing series always keeping the highest quality of service.
Claudia Lüdi
Managing Director
Coming from a family of motorsport enthusiasts, Claudia is still traveling all around the world to meet racing teams directly where they work: At the racetrack. Together with our sales team, she networks and makes sure that everyone in the motorsport world has heard of M&C Travel Events.
Sales
We travel to the racetracks where you are at. To meet you, to get in touch, to provide you with the best travel service possible. Meet us there or contact us in our office: by phone or e-mail. Our Sales Team speaks many different languages: German, English, French, Spanish and Finnish.
Suvi-Anna Kluvich
Sales Representative
Suvi has a degree in tourism management and joined our team in 2018. She currently handles the following racing series: FIA WEC, ELMS, and 24 Hours of Le Mans. Over the year, her job therefore consists of a lot of traveling to circuits around the globe.
Melanie Strauch
Senior Sales Manager
Melanie has a long experience in travel and event management. In the past years, she has specialized in SRO, Creventic and German racing series, and individual motorsport events all around the world.
Laura Langner
Sales Representative
Thanks to her own racing experiences and former jobs in the world of motorsport, Laura knows exactly what the needs of a racing team are. She partners with Melanie taking care of those mentioned German, European and International racing series.
Travel Service
We manage your bookings, send out your confirmations, are ready for any changes and updates from your side. Give us a call with all of your questions - we are happy to help. You can talk to our Travel Service Team in the following languages: German, English, French, Spanish, and Italian.
Elody-Aline Zieker
Head of Travel Service
Elody has a lot of experience in the handling of group bookings and makes sure that her team is always staying on top of things. As the leader of our Travel Service team, she has an eye on how we can innovate our processes, and is responsible for our internal communication.
Bernd Metzger
Senior Travel Service Representative
Bernd is one of our most experienced travel agents with a vast knowledge of flights, rental cars, and more. He is especially often in contact with our clients from all Asian racing series as well as the Formula E.
Kirsten Fehringer
Senior Travel Service Representative
Being one of our Flight experts, she deals with group and individual flights daily. Years of experience in travel and event management come handy when you need to find the best solution for a client.
Andrea Perwög
Sales & Travel Service Assistant
Andrea is one of the earliest members of our team. She has a big heart, brings a sunny smile and loads of travel expertise to our office every day.
Christina Sautter
Sales & Travel Service Assistant
Christina’s big talents lie in her language skills and the way she communicates with hotels. She is a big help when it comes to handling our many partner hotels in Le Mans.
Janina Kümmerle
Sales & Travel Service Assistant
Having worked in the tourism sector for many years, Janina now supports our team two days per week. If you’re our customer her name might appear in your emails every once in a while.
Elena Zuliani
Sales & Travel Service Assistant
Elena has a background in tourism and has already worked with clients from several different racing series.
Purchasing
Heidi Hammer
Head of Purchasing & Events
Heidi has collected experiences in travel management for many decades. When negotiating with our partner hotels, she uses her knowledge to get the best rates and the best conditions possible.
Irmgard Würschum
Purchasing Assistant
In earlier years, Irmgard traveled to the racetrack with us and was commonly known as “Irmi”. Now, she supports Heidi as part of the purchasing team and deals with our partner hotels.
Marketing and Process Management
Yvonne Henning
Business Process Manager
When someone says “process”, our team thinks of Yvonne. She spends her days asking herself how we can improve our work, speed up our processes, and digitalize our working environment.
Sarina Schiffner
Head of Marketing, HR and Digitalization
After the end of her studies, Sarina decided to start at her mother’s business as a Marketing Manager. During the last 2 years, she built up our brand’s online visibility and brought many new ideas to the company.
Damla Oguz
Marketing Assistant
With her cheerful character and creativity, she brings our team's best marketing ideas to life. Damla works on all media and makes them great: Video, print, social, photo.
Accounting and Controlling
Ellen Schweizer
Finance & Accounting Manager
Ellen is our Head of Finance Accounting and is the person where all the important figurs and numbers of the company come together. She loves controlling and finding solutions with the various fiscal challenges she is facing in her daily figure-driven world.
Verena Bergamasco
HR Accounting Assistant
Verena is the newest member of our Accounting team. She makes sure we get paid at the end of the month and with her good overview she constantly reaches to optimize and accelerate the processes in her department.
Cornelia Zügel
Finance & Accounting Assistant
Once our invoices have travelled through several departments and have been double- and triple-checked, Cornelia pushes the buttons and makes our payments. She always has an eye on our bank accounts and follows up on any financial movements.
Frauke Menzel
Finance & Accounting Assistant
Frauke is the most detail-oriented person we know. Thanks to her x-ray vision, she even finds the smallest mistakes. When she’s not checking invoices and payments, she makes sure we are well-equipped with water, coffee, and chocolate at our office.
Jutta Schwind
Finance & Accounting Assistant
Jutta has been a part of our team for 14 years. She’s an expert when it comes to hotel invoices. Even 20-page long invoices are no issue for her. With a set of colorful highlighters, she’s ready to attack at any time.
Barbara Federle
Registrary Assistant
Barbara has been a part of our team for many, many years. She helps wherever help is needed in the accounting department.