Growth falls to single-digit percentages
Nuremberg, March 28, 2025 – In the past month of February 2025, booking sales slipped below the previous year's level. With a drop of 11 per cent for the current winter season and minus 9 per cent for the ...
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Promising start into the new year for the travel market
Nuremberg, February 27, 2025 – In the booking month of January 2025, more than 3 million Germans booked their holidays this year in travel agencies and on traditional online travel portals and spent a good 3.3 billion euros. In terms of turnover, the German tour operator ...
Bookers interest already strongly focused on summer
Nuremberg, January 30, 2025 – As usual, holiday travel sales generated in travel sales weaken in the last booking month of the year due to the public holidays: They are 11 percent below the previous month of November ...
Travel industry looks to 2025 with positive expectations
Nürnberg, 30. Dezember 2024 – Im Buchungsmonat November 2024 haben die Bundesbürger für fast 2 Milliarden Euro pauschal oder in Bausteinen organisierte Urlaubsreisen gebucht. Dies ist gegenüber dem November 2023 ein …
German Tour Operators close travel year with positive results
Nuremberg, November 28, 2024 – German citizens spent around 15 billion euros on their summer holidays organized by tour operators this year - a new record. This means that the 2024 summer season ends with a year-on-year increase ...
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 ...