Good news from Brussels

On 24th September 2009 the European Council accepted the road transport package as an “A point” – this included among others a modified “12-day rule” for coach drivers hours. This means that the...

RDA UK & Ireland Members Get-together and Forum 2010

The next RDA UK & Ireland Members’ Get-together and discussion forum will take place from 11.00 am to 13.00 pm on 28th January 2010 in the Canterbury Cathedral Conference Centre, Canterbury,...

Tour Guiding Seminar 5th to 7th February 2010 in Bremen, Germany

Tour guides, coach drivers, sales and service personnel are all important channels of communication, service touch-points and points of interaction in the coach holiday sector. These people, their...

Travel contracts for coach and group holiday operators – new general terms and conditions and expert appraisal now available

If you are in business with German partner companies and German coach holiday clients then it is always well worth your while studying the RDA general terms and conditions for travel contracts for...

Singles on the rise in Germany’s largest cities

Germany’s population is not only growing older. Recent research (Parship) has revealed that the proportion of singles between 18 and 59 years of age in Germany’s largest cities (as opposed to just...

German domestic holiday sector booming in 2009

One effect of the current economic crisis is that Germans are increasingly holidaying in their own country. This phenomenon is by no means unique to Germany alone in 2009. Such holidaymakers have...

RDA Market Research Report 2009 published

The RDA Market Research Report 2009 – Current Data on the Coach Tourism Market has just been published. This is in Germany only and contains lots of very useful statistics, analyses and succinct...

35th RDA-Workshop – Same level of visitors as in previous year

The 35th RDA-Workshop from 4th to 6th August 2009, the 25th to be held in Cologne, generated great expectations in advance and closed most satisfactorily with a similar visitor count as in the...

Date for 36th RDA-Workshop 2010 is announced

The dates for the 36th RDA-Workshop 2010 have already been announced. The RDA-Workshop 2010 will take place from 27th - 29th July 2010 at Cologne Fair. The reason for the early announcement is a...

RDA-Workshop celebration of 25 years in Cologne

To celebrate 25 years RDA-Workshop in Cologne a special “Kölsch Evening” (typical Cologne beer) will be held on the evening of Wednesday, 5th August 2009 in the newly opened brewery restaurant...