Insights

Fast-growing early bookers for summer 2025

Nuremberg, October 30, 2024 – The booking month of September 2024 was characterised by continued strong demand for autumn holidays and a huge increase in early bookings for the upcoming 2025 summer season, which are particularly strong in terms of ...

Focus on bookings for autumn break

Nuremberg, September 26, 2024 – In the booking month of August 2024, Germans mainly booked their upcoming autumn holidays in September and October, followed by holidays for the coming winter season, in which cruises ...

High share of last minute summer season bookings

Nuremberg, August 29, 2024 – New bookings in the German tour operator market have remained above the previous year's level since the insolvency of FTI. In the booking month of July 2024, many German holidaymakers also made replacement bookings for their ...

FTI insolvency reduces summer growth figures

Nuremberg, July 31, 2024 – The insolvency of FTI at the beginning of June this year has left a clear mark on the holiday travel business: After all of the tour operator's cancelled trips were adjusted in the sales statistics, the cumulative ...

New booking sales skyrocket

Nuremberg, June 27, 2024 – On 3 June 2024, FTI filed for insolvency and in the same week, new booking sales skyrocketed. They are characterised by an above-average proportion of short-term package holiday bookings for ...

Winter season 2023/24 ends with strong growth

Nuremberg, May 31, 2024 – As already expected by booking activities of the last months, the 2023/24 winter season, which ended with the booking month of April 2024, ended with double-digit sales growth compared to both the previous year and the pre-corona level. Following ...

Growth of Winter Season is obvious

Nuremberg, March 28, 2024 – The volume of new bookings in the German holiday market for tour operator holidays remains at a high level, exceeding that of the previous year. Overall, sales generated in travel sales in the booking month of February 2024 ...

Record-breaking January 2024

Nuremberg, February 29, 2024 - January last year had already broken sales records when Germans' desire for holidays returned with a vengeance after a meagre early booking phase. The fact that this year's January 2024 can still surpass the previous year's month ...

Germans with a positive sentiment to book holidays

Nuremberg, January 31, 2024 - The volume of bookings in the German holiday travel market remains high: by the end of 2023, it will be well above the comparative levels of 2022 (previous year) and 2019 (pre-corona). Overall, sales generated in December ...