Facts + figures

2008

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7 May 2008

HRS cooperates with Iberostar Hotels

HRS - HOTEL RESERVATION SERVICE has expanded its portfolio on the Spanish market through a new cooperation agreement. HRS is the first online booking system to add the Spanish hotel brand Iberostar to its database through direct, non-GDS-based cooperation. Collaboration with HRS is a premiere for Iberostar. Up to now, its hotels have been sold almost exclusively through agents. Iberostar currently has 91 hotels worldwide. Its 35 hotels in Spain will be bookable on HRS from May 2008 onwards. Cooperation between all Iberostar hotels and HRS is planned for this autumn.

2 May 2008

HRS integrates Accor Group hotels through a direct interface

HRS has integrated the hotels of the Accor Group, comprising the Sofitel, Pullmann, Novotel, Mercure, Suitehotel, All Seasons and Ibis brands, into its system. As a result, the previous range of 225,000 hotels on offer has been expanded by 2800.

This latest move by Europe's leading hotel reservation system means that HRS maintains a direct interface with the central reservation systems (CRS) of three of the world's largest hotel chains. In addition to Accor Group hotels, users of HRS have access to, amongst others, the 570,000 rooms of the InterContinental Hotels Group and 225 Hilton hotels, all of which can be booked directly via an electronic interface.

9 April 2008

Five stars for only 1 euro! HRS launches two-stage hotel special

Following the great success of the "Majorca for 1 euro" campaign in the summer of 2007, HRS once again offered hotels in all categories for just 1 euro - although this time the hotels were worldwide. During a test run on 9 April 2008, 600 nights' accommodation were sold for 1 euro each. The main campaign was launched a few weeks later on 23 April 2008, with more than 1000 nights up for grabs. The campaign, which was accompanied by extensive advertising in the print and online media, was an enormous success. In both instances, all the accommodation was snapped up in a very short time.

5 March 2008

Presented by Former German President Richard von Weizsäcker

HRS receives Travel Industry Club's BEST PRACTICE AWARD 2008

HRS - HOTEL RESERVATION SERVICE has received the highest accolade for an innovative business idea and its resolute and successful implementation: the Best Practice Award 2008, sponsored by the Travel Industry Club. HRS won the prize for developing a program which enables conferences to be booked directly online. Users of this innovation can reserve between 10 and 20 hotel rooms and a suitable meeting room online at daily best-buy rates.

5 March 2008

Austro-German alliance on international online tourism:

HRS - HOTEL RESERVATION SERVICE buys majority stake in Austrian tourism portal Tiscover

Two of Europe's most important players in the international online tourism sector have entered into a far-reaching alliance. Cologne-based HRS - HOTEL RESERVATION SERVICE Robert Ragge GmbH has bought a majority of the shares in Tiscover AG of Austria and its subsidiaries, Tiscover Deutschland GmbH in Munich, Tiscover Italia Srl in Trento and Tiscover UK Ltd. in Crawley (West Sussex). The two parties have agreed not to divulge the purchase price. The move helps HRS to significantly entrench its position as one of the world's leading online travel companies and Europe's market leader for online hotel reservation.

Tiscover is an international information, travel and booking platform founded in 1991 and based in Innsbruck. It is by far the largest and most popular tourism portal in Austria, and used as a platform for presenting everything from rooms in private homes to 5-star hotels and entire holiday regions. In addition to its domestic activities, Tiscover AG has always been known well beyond the Austrian borders as the number one provider of online travel portal creation and management services for national travel destinations including Scotland and Montenegro as well as regional travel destinations.

5 March 2008

HRS and Scandlines join forces

One of Europe's largest ferry companies and Europe's leading hotel reservation company have agreed to work together even more closely. Travellers using the Scandlines Web site (

3 March 2008

HRS cooperates with TomTom

HRS - HOTEL RESERVATION SERVICE, Europe's largest online hotel booking platform, and TomTom, the world's leading provider of navigation products and services, have entered into a cooperation agreement that will enable data on hotels booked through the HRS Web site to be sent directly to TomTom navigation systems.

29 February 2008

NAVIGON integrates HRS hotel searching into its navigation system

Thanks to extensive collaboration between HRS - HOTEL RESERVATION SERVICE and NAVIGON, the huge choice of hotels and information on facilities and special features will be made available on all NAVIGON navigation devices.

What's more, the information in the HRS database of at present 225,000 hotels will be integrated into the current family of products by NAVIGON, one of the world's leading navigation solution providers, over the next few months.

18 February 2008

HRS and the Regus Group agree to cooperate

HRS, Europe's market leader in online hotel booking, and the Regus Group, the world's leading provider of flexible workplace solutions, have agreed to enter into a global partnership. Thanks to this cooperation, Regus customers not only have direct access to HRS's worldwide electronic hotel reservation system and more than 225,000 bookable hotels at www.regus.com/hrs but also benefit from special conditions.

24 January 2008

HRS wins renowned Business Traveller Award 2007

The hotel booking specialist has been presented with the renowned Business Traveller Award for the fourth year in succession and in two separate categories. Europe's leading online hotel reservation portal came top in both the 'Best Internet Offer 2007 Travel Providers' category and the overall 'Best Internet Offer 2007' category.

3 January 2008

HRS picks up Buying Business Travel Diamond Award

HRS has received a major honour. The hotel booking specialist has been presented with the Buying Business Travel Diamond Award 2008 in the 'Best Hotel Booking Engine' category. The winners of this coveted annual industry award are chosen by the readers English business travel magazine Buying Business Travel.

3 January 2008

HRS picks up Buying Business Travel Diamond Award

2 January 2008

HRS is 'Most Popular Travel Web Site of 2007'

For the second year in succession, HRS is the proud winner of the competition to find the 'Most Popular Travel Web Site'. Between 1 November and 10 December 2007, more than 550,000 people cast their vote online. HRS comfortably beat its competitors, and is therefore now at eye level with online greats like YouTube (the winner of the 'Most Popular Video Site' category), Google (the winner of the 'Best Search and Find Site' category) and web.de (the winner of the 'Most Popular Portal Site' category).

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