New package holiday offers for last-minute travelers: Eurowings Holidays cooperates with DERTOUR Deutschland

Eurowings Holidays, the vacation brand of Germany's largest leisure airline Eurowings, is cooperating with DERTOUR Deutschland to create new offers in the fast-growing segment of dynamically packaged holidays. As part of the cooperation, the partners are putting together packages for last-minute travelers to popular cities and vacation destinations such as Spain, Italy, and Greece. DERTOUR Deutschland complements the wide range of flights offered by Eurowings with suitable hotel offers. Thanks to the intelligent, IT-supported linking of flight and hotel capacities, Eurowings, with the support of DERTOUR Deutschland, can offer customers not only very attractively priced package tours, but also millions of possible combinations - for a wide variety of travel options.

Jens Bischof, CEO of Eurowings: “We have a very attractive product portfolio with our network of Eurowings flights and the expertise to expand these flights into attractively priced package tours. Low down payment, free rebooking, and low-cost cancellation up to 14 days before departure - only Eurowings Holidays currently offers this combination of benefits. Together with our partner DERTOUR Deutschland, we can now reach holidaymakers who choose the personal advice from a travel agency when booking their vacation even better. DERTOUR with its more than 400 offices is the ideal partner here.”

“As one of the leading European tour operators, we can draw on an extremely extensive hotel portfolio for different target groups. By combining our diverse range of hotels with Eurowings flights, Eurowings Holidays creates attractive travel packages aimed specifically at price-conscious travelers and short-break travelers. We are thus further expanding our partner landscape in the tourism sector,” explains Dr. Ingo Burmester, CEO Central Europe DERTOUR Group. Sales have already started in the first selected travel agencies of the DERTOUR Group's sales organization. “And we are also looking forward to further cooperation in our travel agencies,” says Burmester.

The company HLX Touristik headed by Karlheinz Kögel is responsible for packaging the trips. The entrepreneur from Baden-Baden is considered a pioneer of “dynamic packaging” - a strong growth area in tourism that enables to fulfill the often very individual travel wishes. The company holidays.ch is responsible for production.

About Eurowings Holidays
Eurowings Holidays is a sales brand operated by the HLX Group (including HLX.com and Lufthansa Holidays). The main shareholder of the company is Karlheinz Kögel, who founded the last-minute specialist L'tur back in 1987. Via Eurowings Holidays, flights can be combined with inexpensive accommodation and rental cars in all categories to create a package. The extensive portfolio includes flights within Europe, but also to North America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa.

About the DERTOUR Group 
The DERTOUR Group, based in Cologne, is the travel division of the REWE Group. It is one of the leading travel groups in Europe. More than 130 companies belong to the DERTOUR Group. It employs over 9,200 people in 16 European countries. Every year, millions of guests travel with one of its tour operators or specialists. The DERTOUR Group includes the tour operators DERTOUR, ITS, Meiers Weltreisen, Kuoni, Helvetic Tours, ITS Coop Travel, Billa Reisen, Koning Aap, Apollo, Exim Tours, and Fischer, over 2,100 travel agencies (including DER-TOUR, DERPART, Kuoni, Exim, Fischer and franchise and cooperation partners), the hotel brands Sentido, Aldiana, Calimera and COOEE and the online travel portal Prijsvrij Vakanties. The DERTOUR Group is also locally active for its guests: with 72 offices, the Group's own agency network is present in 30 travel countries. The employees of the destination agencies look after DERTOUR Group guests from arrival to departure at their vacation destination. Further information can be found at www.dertour-group.com.