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EXCLUSIVE: These are the numbers of tour operators for the Summer! | What Ebel, Heapy, Der Touristik, MTS, easyJet told M&T | What are the increases for 2025?

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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WTTC launches Safe Travels protocols for aviation, airports, MICE and tour operators

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has unveiled the second phase of measures to rebuild global consumer confidence to encourage the return of travelling. The latest protocols are designed to drive the return of safe travel and enable industries, namely tour operators and convention centres, meetings and events to thrive once again. Detailed discussions took place with key […]

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Russian tour operators interested in Cyprus hotels

Russian tour operators seem to be highly interested in collaborating with Cyprus hotels, which are now available, following Thomas Cook bankruptcy. According to Russian Express, as ATORUS, the Association of Russian tour operators claims, no crisis followed the Thomas Cook bankruptcy and the island survived the turbulence. Also, more hotels in the area were made […]

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TUI Group: Tour operators and aviation businesses impacted by 737 MAX grounding and delayed bookings in Q3 2019

“Despite the challenging environment in 2019 to date, our underlying business remains robust, and we expect to deliver a solid performance in 2019, which, however, will not match the prior year’s result, as expected due to the grounding of the 737 MAX. Hotels & Resorts will benefit from our diversified portfolio and Cruises will deliver […]

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TUI Group to sell German specialist tour operators “Berge & Meer” and “Boomerang Reisen”

The TUI Group is further restructuring its traditional tour operator business and sharpening its profile. The tourism group has concluded an agreement to divest its two German specialist tour operators Berge & Meer and Boomerang Reisen to equity investor GENUI. Hamburg-based private investment firm GENUI will acquire the two companies for around 100 million euros. […]

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Tour Operators announced their summer programs to Greek Crete

Market participants noted a significant intensification of demand for Greek Crete for the coming summer. Thus, according to TEZ Tour and ANEX Tour, pre-sale of trips to Crete in the mid of January increased two times against the same period of the last year. “Biblio Globus” and “Pegas Touristik” also noted the growth of early […]

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Portugal: Strong growth for German tour operators

Tour operators in Germany have double-digit growth in bookings for Portugal this summer as demand surges for Western Mediterranean destinations. Portugal has already generated good growth on the German market in recent years. Last year, the number of German visitors increased to 1.1 million from 977,000 in 2014, with the Algarve, Madeira and Lisbon as […]

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German tour operators welcome subsidies U-turn

Tour operators in Germany have welcomed a U-turn by Turkish tourism minister Mahir Ünal under which they will receive flight subsidies this summer rather than airlines. Ünal has clarified plans to provide a subsidy of US$6,000 per flight this summer to support the country’s tourism sector. Under the ‘2016 Tourism Action Plan’ presented by Prime […]

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German tour operators sign up international partners

Tour operators in Germany have agreed various sales and marketing partnerships with destinations and airlines. FTI has teamed up with Dutch low-cost airline Transavia in a sales and marketing deal for its new low-cost flights from Munich which start at the end of March. FTI will sell seats on Transavia flights to city and beach […]

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Spain opened in Moscow a visa center for tour operators and travel agencies

A second visa center of Spain was opened in Moscow last week to serve only tour operators and travel agencies. “In September 2015a biometric system of Schengen visas was introduces, which caused a slight slowdown in the process of issuing visas. To minimize this effect, the General Consulate of Spain in Moscow decided to open […]

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