Informe semanal de noticias del mercado alemán de la Oficina de Turismo de Tenerife en Fráncfort
- Destacamos
Canarian hoteliers demand higher investments in tourism: The public funds, currently 61 million euros, which the Canary Islands government is providing to improve infrastructure and marketing, should be doubled, say the hotel associations of the archipelago. The government intends to provide 35.5 million euros for tourism infrastructure, 19 million for advertising and 6.6 million euros for tourist information, according to a report by the Spanish specialist portal «Hosteltur». In the opinion of the hoteliers, that is far too little to meet the challenges.
- Market News
New at the ITB Berlin 2020: Home of Luxury: In cooperation with loop and Luxury Hotel & Spa Management launch the ITB Berlin a home for suppliers and buyers of the luxury industry. They organize one-on-one business meetings in an exclusive atmosphere, networking sessions and a HOME coming After Work Drink.
- Destination News
Canarian hoteliers demand higher investments in tourism: The public funds, currently 61 million euros, which the Canary Islands government is providing to improve infrastructure and marketing, should be doubled, say the hotel associations of the archipelago. The government intends to provide 35.5 million euros for tourism infrastructure, 19 million for advertising and 6.6 million euros for tourist information, according to a report by the Spanish specialist portal «Hosteltur». In the opinion of the hoteliers, that is far too little to meet the challenges.
- Tour Operator News
Turkey’s Anex Group buys Öger and Bucher: According to FVW, Anex Group is acquiring the Thomas Cook Germany subsidiary ‘Bucher Reisen & Öger Tours GmbH’, which combines the two separate tour operator brands with 84 staff at offices in Hamburg and Meerbusch (near Düsseldorf), for an undisclosed price and subjective to regulatory approvals. The takeover will make the Turkish group, which already has a small tour operator business in Germany under the Anex Tour brand, into a significant player on the German market. Öger Tours is one of Germany’s biggest tour operators for Turkey and also offers holidays in Egypt and other destinations in the region. Bucher Reisen mostly sells budget-priced holidays in other Mediterranean destinations and some long-haul destinations. Neşet Koçkar, chairman of the family-owned group, said the takeover of «these valuable brands» would generate real additional value for Anex and demonstrated its ambition to become «a global player» in the tourism industry. Anex Group, with turnover of about €2 billion, has just become the biggest tour operator in Russia with the takeover of Intourist from Thomas Cook Group. «Anex Tour is the ideal strategic investor for these travel suppliers and fits ideally in terms of its portfolio,» commented Julia Kappel-Gnirs, the provisional insolvency administrator of Thomas Cook Germany.
Thomas Cook management and employees are saying bye-bye to the industry with an official picture and a nice letter by CEO Stefanie Berk and will finally close the doors end of this month in Oberursel near Frankfurt. This means that around 1.000 employees will lose their jobs next week.
Alltours targets 20% growth to two million customers: German tour operator Alltours aims to profit from the Thomas Cook insolvency by expanding its hotel portfolio by 30% as it targets a high 20% rise to more than two million customers next year reported FVW. This year the Düsseldorf-based group had flat customer numbers of about 1.7 million amid tough trading conditions but increased its pre-tax profit by 15%.Considering the major challenges in the airline sector, we are very satisfied with the results that we have achieved,» declared owner Willi Verhuven, referring to flight capacity shortages following the Germania insolvency earlier this year and the grounding of B-737max planes. For 2020 Verhuven aims to increase customer numbers by over 20% to more than two million for the first time. He hopes that about three quarters of these additional 340,000 customers would be former Cook customers who will have to book their summer holiday with a different tour operator next year. To accommodate this high growth, Alltours has expanded its summer 2020 portfolio by 30% to more than 20,000 hotels. This includes 90% of the hotels that Cook formerly marketed exclusively on the German market, with some of them now offered exclusively through Alltours. More than 50% of the tour operator’s guests already stay in an exclusively offered hotel, with the figure rising to more than 75% on Majorca. In terms of destination volumes, Alltours expects to have more than one million customers in Spain next summer, including 100,000 more bookings for Majorca, where it is already the largest German tour operator.
Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof takes over 106 Thomas Cook travel: The department store group Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof wants to take over 106 Thomas Cook travel agencies and the e-commerce platform «Golden Gate». The acquisition will secure 500 jobs for Thomas Cook, according to the company.
- Aviation News
Easyjet wants compensate the complete CO2 emissions: As the first major airline, the low-cost carrier promises a climate-neutral operation. With just under 30 million euros per year, forestry initiatives, renewable energies and municipal climate protection projects are to be financed. CO2 net zero emissions for all flights – the ambitious project was announced by airline chief Johan Lundgren on Tuesday in London at the presentation of the balance sheet. The carbon dioxide emissions caused by the fuel combustion of aircraft are to be fully offset by investments in climate protection projects, promises the head of the airline. Although Lundgren acknowledges that the compensation is a transitional solution until real climate neutrality, such as alternative fuels, is achieved. But he is sure: «It works, if you do it with the right projects.» In addition, the airline is involved in a letter of intent on the research and development of hybrid and electric aircraft by aircraft manufacturer Airbus and cooperates with the US start-up Wright Electric in the development of an electric aircraft.