From rail ticket sales counter to one of Europe’s leading tourism groups: DERTOUR Group can look back on a corporate history spanning over 100 years. In October 1917, the company was founded as Deutsches Reisebüro in Berlin. With sights always firmly set on the travel needs of guests, it was destined for growth and internationalisation from the outset. The company thus continually developed, broken new ground and, thanks to acquisitions and newly founded companies, evolved into the DERTOUR Group of today.
Since 2000 it has been a 100 per cent subsidiary of REWE. Under the umbrella of REWE Group, one of the leading trading companies in Europe, the DERTOUR Group is well and securely positioned and now operate with more than 130 companies in 16 European countries. For its guests, DERTOUR Group is – today, as in the past – a competent, reliable and dedicated partner for everything to do with travel – ensuring that holidays become the most wonderful part of the year in future, too.
DER Touristik Group takes a step in its strategic evolution signifying the Group’s commitment to internationalisation by becoming known as DERTOUR Group.
The hotel division of the DERTOUR Group, DERTOUR Hotel & Resorts GmbH, has acquires a majority stake in DR Hospitality GmbH & Co. KG. DR Hospitality was founded in 2021 as an equal joint venture with Deutsche Seereederei (DSR).
DSR Hotel Holding GmbH, joint venture partner of the hotel company of the DERTOUR Group, takes over the hotel group Travel Charme Hotels & Resorts.
DER Touristik Hotel Division launches new lifestyle hotel brand ananea and opens the first ananea hotel on the Greek Island of Kos.
Aldiana Management GmbH, which belongs to the DER Touristik Group, purchases Aldiana Club Ampflwang in Austria.
DTH Real Estate Fuerteventura S.L (Spain), which belongs to DER Touristik Group, acquires the Aldiana Club Fuerteventura.
DERTOUR Reisebüro replaces the previous brand DER Reisebüro.
DER Touristik Group acquires D-reizen, one of the leading online travel distribution and travel agency organizations in the Netherlands.
DER Touristik and DSR Hotel Holding establish the joint venture DR Hospitality based in Hamburg and Rostock.
The Northern European subsidiary DER Touristik Nordic sells the airline Novair to the Danish Jet Nordic Group.
The Czech subsidiary Exim Holding acquires the tourism company Fischer in Prague.
DER Touristik Hotels & Resorts takes over the Galo Resort, Madeira. The resort will operate as Sentido Galo Resort in the future.
DER Touristik Hotels & Resorts merges its hotel brands lti and Sentido. Sentido becomes the new brand name.
The DER Touristik Group acquires a 50 per cent share in Aldiana Club Resorts.
The Czech subsidiary Exim Holding is expanding its Eastern European business and acquiring Travel Brands SRL in Bucharest, which operates under the name DERTOUR.
DER Touristik is acquiring the hotel brand Sentido from Thomas Cook.
Dertour takes over the website camperboerse.de.
REWE Touristik acquires the travel agency cooperation ProTours AG.
The corporate group Deutsches Reisebüro enters into a joint venture in Indonesia with the agency Agentur Go Vacation .
The tour operator clevertours.com is founded.
REWE Group acquires all shares of DER from Deutsche Bahn. DER becomes a 100 percent subsidiary of REWE. With the affiliated companies ITS Reisen and Atlasreisen, the travel and tourism division of REWE Group expands its market position. Derpart cooperation partners are now also under the REWE umbrella.
Dertour purchases 51 per cent of shares in ADAC Reisen, Munich.
The DERTOUR brand is launched with the catalogue “Europe’s Greenest Oases”. Three years later, the entire tour operator business of DER trades under the “DERTOUR” name.
John F. Kennedy visits Berlin.
From the mid-1950s, various foreign representative offices are reopened, starting with the branch in Rome. This is followed by further branches in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Toronto, New York, Miami, Tokyo, Milan and Budapest.
DER Travel Agency in the 50th.
MER Travel Agency in Cologne
