FTI Group’s Chief Product Officer will be moved additionally to competitor Alltours Flugreisen as CEO. Jan Mayer will head the travel and commercial divisions of the tour operator. According to Alltours, Mayer will move to Düsseldorf on 1 June. In his new role as Managing Director, he will be responsible for flight and hotel purchasing […]
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Alltours is closing all its airport stations in Germany with up to 70 job losses. The tour operator informed nearly 70 affected employees on April 29 that its stations at 22 airports in Germany would close as of May 31. Owner Willi Verhuven justified the dramatic step in a letter to employees by referring to […]
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FTI Group, the third largest tour operator in Europe, will be handling German holidaymakers in Crete from mid-June until the end of October 2024. In particular, the tour operator will take holidaymakers from three German cities, Hanover, Berlin and Erfurt, to the Greek island with Corendon flights. A charter will depart from Hanover to Heraklion […]
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The prospects for the 2024 summer season are excellent, as almost all tour operators -with few exceptions- and especially the big ones, see a significant increase in bookings, with the Mediterranean and Greece attracting the interest of European tourists. In the context of this year’s ITB, ΜΟΝΕΥ & TOURISM spoke with leading tour operators, namely […]
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Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced today that a Hyatt affiliate has entered into a franchise agreement with Thera Island Suites S.A., owners of Magma Resort Santorini, and Athens-based SWOT Hospitality will operate the hotel. Expected to open in 2022 in time for the summer season, the hotel will join The Unbound Collection by Hyatt portfolio as […]
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High demand by exhibitors and a convention featuring high-ranking international speakers are setting the tone: from 6 to 10 March 2019 ITB Berlin will again be the industry’s meeting place and must-attend event, devoting itself to innovative and forward-looking trends in the travel industry, politics and business. At the ITB Berlin Convention close to 400 […]
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Kos wants to make a tourism comeback after last year’s refugee crisis with new marketing measures as German bookings start to rise, speakers said at an fvw workshop on the Greek island. The Greek holiday island suffered heavily last year as pictures of refugees in the main town and other parts of the island filled […]
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The heads of TUI subsidiaries L’tur and TUIfly are leaving their posts in surprise moves while there are management changes at other German tourism companies. Markus Orth, the long-serving head of leading German last-minute holidays specialist L’tur, is leaving the company in a surprise move and will be replaced by a manager from majority shareholder […]
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Alltours owner Willi Verhuven told fvw in an interview that he wants to take over more hotels and add luxury suites to diversify the properties’ portfolios. The German group recently took over two more Palmira hotels on Majorca, making Allsun into the second-largest hotel chain on the island. There are now 21 Allsun hotels on […]
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Alltours, Thomas Cook, TUI, DER Touristik, Sun Express and several other companies have made senior managerial changes in January and early February. Dieter Zümpel, the well-known sales & marketing director of Alltours, is leaving the company due to differences of opinion with owner Willi Verhuven. His contract was officially terminated with effect from January 31, […]
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