Contact
Anna Natascha Hantke
Phone: +49 221 91 27 72 0
Facsimile: +49 221 12 47 88
E-mail: info@rda.de
Information Membership
Benefits of RDA membership
Added value
RDA membership offers both coach and group tourism operators and their suppliers many valuable advantages.
You can profit from a strong B2B network which provides you with business contacts, information exchanges and knowledge transfers.
RDA lobbying ensures that the marketplace is free of potential competitive disadvantages and that political decision-makers are made aware of coach tourism interests.
All members ultimately benefit when the course for successful business growth and future development has been properly set for our industry as a whole.
Lobbying
- Representing members’ interests at national and international levels
- Political monitoring via RDA office in Brussels
- Drawing-up expert appraisals for branch-specific political decisions
Legal consultancy
- Expert advice on current legal issues
- Expert annotation in complex legal themes
Taxation consultancy
- Expert advice on current taxation issues and complex fiscal themes
- Monthly tax information in the RDA Tax Letter
Business consultancy
- Expert advice on general business questions and individual company situations
- Management consultancy for companies facing existential problems (in co-operation with Wendlandt Management Consultants)
- Management consultancy for companies according to financial parameters (in co-operation with Wendlandt Management Consultants)
Market research service
- Market data on coach tourism for planning purposes
- Individually understandable and prepared data evaluation
- Market research seminars on market trends and own RDA market studies
Further training with the RDA Academy
- Practical seminars on legal themes, company management, marketing and market research at a special rate for members and specially geared to small- and medium sized enterprises
- Further training and education for tour guides together with certification examination
Participation at the RDA-Workshop
- Exclusive RDA member participation as RDA-Workshop exhibitors – the leading international sales and purchasing exhibition for the coach and group tourism sectors
- Business contacts and contact development to 10,000 trade visitors
Coach safety services
- RDA-Bus-Intervent with 24-hour monitoring of accidents involving coaches on mainland Europe
- Guidelines and advice on crisis management themes
Co-operation agreements with
- Framework agreement with GEMA (society for music and performance rights)
- Framework agreement with HanseMerkur Insurance for the emergancy management programm RBI
- Wendtland Management Consultants
What does RDA membership cost?
RDA membership means a small membership fee and a large spectrum of services. In concrete terms this means:
A1 Members (Coach Holiday Operators, Tour Operators, Travel Agencies,
Wholesale Group Package Travel Operators and Incoming Companies) pay Euro 365.- per annum and a one-off admission fee of Euro 26.-.
A2 Members (Tourism Offices/Destination Marketing Organisations and Associations, Shipping Companies, Tourism Railways, Cultural Attractions and Leisure Facilities, Coach and Group Tourism Consultancy Firms) pay Euro 365.- per annum and a one-off admission fee of Euro 51.-.
A3 Members (Hotels and Restaurants) pay Euro 400.- and a one-off admission fee of Euro 153.-.
A4 Members (exclusively Gütegemeinschaft Buskomfort e.V. – Coach Quality Association member companies) pay a reduced RDA annual fee of Euro 265.- when they are members of both organisations and a one-off admission fee of Euro 26.-.
RDA membership is not limited in time and may be regularly terminated by written notice of cancellation per registered post (the period of notice for cancellation is six months to the end of the calendar year, i.e. by the 30th June of any given year at the very latest).