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2001-2005


August 2005 - World Youth Day

Some 800,000 light blue, HRS sponsored lanyards clearly identified participants at World Youth Day.
As the official sponsor, HRS was responsible for making all the hotel reservations. It even created a site specially for the event.

18 April 2005

The new HRS Web site is launched.

18 January 2005

First prize: HRS wins Business Traveller Award 2004 as "Best online service for business travellers".

For the fifth time in a row, therefore, the readers of the German Business Traveller magazine have voted HRS one of the top three in the business.

1 June 2004

HRS moves into its new headquarters. The new address is: Blaubach 32, D-50676 Koeln.

"Blaubach" lies in Cologne's old town centre and is the street of dyers and tanners, the proud guild of independent, self-employed craftsmen.

7 May 2004

A 57.3% share of the market (Financial Times Germany, 7 May 2004) confirms HRS's position as Germany's leading hotel portal

14 March 2004

HRS is one of the world's top-three hotel booking sites.

At the ITB, the world's largest tourism trade fair, HRS.de/HRS.com is presented with the Electronic Distribution Award (EDA) for its outstanding value. An international panel of experts names HRS the world's third-best hotel booking site out of a total of 108 providers.
In 2003, HRS is once again voted one of the world's top-three Web sites for business travel. (Business Traveller, 1/2004 issue)

March 2003

HRS is again used in a survey by the Centre for Regional and Tourism Research in Nexoe, Denmark. The study is entitled "Early adopters of WAP for hotels - A series of European case studies".

2003

First models for a comprehensive overhaul of the HRS Web site.

HRS.de is named the 2002 business travel site-of-the-year (Business Traveller, 1/2003 issue).

HRS receives the International Gold Star for Quality award in Madrid in recognition of its first-rate dedication to quality and customer satisfaction.

November 2003

An annual survey of trends entitled "Successful tourism via the Internet" declares HRS.de its tourism site-of-the-month for November. HRS gets the best marks for navigation, functionality, the range of services on offer, its booking procedure and design.

October 2003

Robert Ragge buys a building for HRS in the heart of Cologne. The move helps prepare HRS for future developments and secures the company's independence.

The number of people working for HRS tops the 150 mark.

2002

HRS celebrates its 30th anniversary.
The number of employees climbs to 132.
The up-to-the-minute topicality of the Internet becomes the deciding factor. No more CD-ROMs are produced.
HRS is again in the year's top-three Web sites for business travel (Business Traveller, 1/2002 issue).
According to German consumer watchdog Stiftung Warentest, HRS is one of the cheapest service providers on the Internet (9/2002 issue).

2001

First HRS hotel reservation applications developed specially for corporate intranets.
The number of employees climbs to 115.
Readers of Business Traveller magazine vote HRS one of the three best Web sites for business travel in the year 2000 (1/2001 issue).

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