News of Coach and Group Tourism

Working with German coach and group travel operators

Germany’s coach and group travel operators start planning and contracting for the following tourism year in spring and in early summer. The highlight of their purchasing year is the annual...

Social business occasions instead of business networking events?

Next year’s pre-Day of Coach Tourism 2012 Get-Together takes place on Sunday, 8thJanuary 2012 in the phaeno in Wolfsburg. This is an important social evening where RDA members and conference...

Coaches are still the safest mode of holiday transport

Coaches are still the safest mode of holiday transport. This has been confirmed once again by the latest TÜV-Bus-Report (German Association for Technical Inspection). More than 80 percent of vehicles...

30th Day of Coach Tourism in the Autostadt, Wolfsburg

Coach holidays are not on the way out: Innovations in the coach and group tourism sectors!The Day of Coach Tourism has been providing the international coach tourism sector with valuable impulses and...

Regional RDA Members Meeting in Leipzig during the Touristic & Caravanning International Exhibition on 17th November 2011

If you are exhibiting at or planning to attend the Touristic & Caravanning International exhibition in Leipzig you will be happy to hear that a Regional RDA Members Meeting will take place there...

"Red Bus 2012" – the prize for innovation and marketing in the coach tourism sector

RDA member companies are cordially invited to enter the new-look “Red Bus 2012” competition. This is, indeed, a wonderful opportunity for you to present your top services to your industry colleagues...

Graz – 61st RDA AGM & RDA / gbk Conference 2012 Host City

The romantic Austrian city of Graz, with a population of some 290,000 inhabitants, is the federal state capital of the Steiermark (www.graz.at). The Schlossberg is where the magnificent Clock Tower –...

Tour Guiding Seminar 3rd to 5th February 2012 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...

New studies on internet usage in Germany and in the UK

A representative “Bitkom* (German Internet Federation) study recently published by market research company, Aris, shows how Germans keep themselves informed about daily news and personal interests:...

Essential reasons why coach tourism marketing should adopt a “Twitter”-type approach

In their bestselling book, “Made to Stick” (2007), Chip and Dan Heath talk about why some ideas survive and why some ideas die. Their advice is that if you want to make a lasting impression, you have...