German holidaymakers snapped up cheap last-minute online offers for Turkey, Egypt and Greece last month but Spain again lost market share amid a general sales recovery, the latest monthly package holiday booking figures from Amadeus show.
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The German cruise market is likely to reach a new record of three million passengers in the coming years despite environmental debates, according to experts at the Seatrade Europe conference in Hamburg this week.
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Thomas Cook wants to take tighter control of its hotels through more management contracts, sell more rooms to group tour operators and expand its portfolio cautiously, hotels chief Enric Noguer told fvw in an interview.
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Thomas Cook is set to be split into separate tour operator and airline businesses within weeks after the financially troubled group secured £900 million in recapitalisation funding from Chinese shareholder Fosun and its banks.
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Germans flew abroad more than ever in the first half of 2019, with Turkey, the USA and Canada among the destination winners but the Canary Islands, Cyprus, the UAE and the Dominican Republic all welcomed fewer tourists from Germany, new figures show.
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The German aviation industry, led by Lufthansa, has won government support for technological and technical solutions such as synthetic fuels and emissions compensation to reduce the sector’s environmental impact as it seeks to avoid a new CO2 tax on air fares.
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DER Touristik Central Europe will switch from its current two separate reservation systems to British-based Atcom from winter 2021/22 to speed up sales and offer more flexible products in a major technology move.
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