Department
ratefinding.com is a product of the department Corporate/Customized Hotel Programs of DERTOUR. Beside the contracting and the allocation of the DER Corporate Hotel Program and the DERTOUR Corporate Hotel Program, the contracting of companies' net rates can also be handled. Additionally, private clients as well as corporate customers can book online cheap hotels via www.DERhotel.com.
Company
DERTOUR GmbH & Co. KG emanated from the Deutsches Reisebüro (DER), which can look back at more than 85 years of experience (founded in 1917) and is one of the most experienced companies in the international tourism industry. The products of DERTOUR are very much focused on the individual necessities of the customers and are advanced and optimised year by year. The result: DERTOUR is one of the biggest tour operators in Germany. In some areas like City Breaks, Event-Travel, as well as the outbound travel to North-America and Ireland, DERTOUR is market leader.
DERTOUR is part of the Travel Division of Rewe which is one of the leading travel related companies in Germany.
Through targeted investments in the travel business, the Rewe Travel Division is consistently expanding. Since January 2000, the DER Group, and since January 2001, LTU Touristik, as well as 40 percent of the LTU airline, have been part of the Rewe Group. With a consolidated total turnover of over 4.23 billion Euros in 2005, the Rewe Group?s Travel Division is today one of the largest travel companies in Germany and Europe. In this connection, the individual companies of the Rewe Travel Division are specialists in many areas of travel with targeted and innovative programmes for holidaymakers and business travellers, a highly efficient sales network, hotel participations, important affiliates abroad, the application of the new media and committed staff.
The shareholder of the Travel Division, the Rewe-Handelsgruppe, founded in 1927 with its headquarters in Cologne, is a leading company in the German and European grocery trade and in the business fields of the grocery retail and wholesale trades, specialist markets and travel. In Europe, the company has over 260,000 employees. Its total sales in 2005 amount to over 41.7 billion Euros.