About Hotelplan Group | Hotelplan Group, based in Glattbrugg, Switzerland, is a globally active Swiss travel group in the leisure and business travel sector. The group’s business units include Switzerland’s largest tour operator, Hotelplan Suisse, with the brands travelhouse and tourisme pour tous, and the Volume Tour Operating division, which includes the beach holiday and city break business with the Hotelplan, Migros Ferien and vtours brands. In Great Britain the group is represented by Hotelplan UK, one of Britain’s major skiing and walking holiday specialists, with the Inghams, Inntravel, Esprit Holidays, Santa’s Lapland and Explore Worldwide brands. Interhome Group, one of Europe’s leading rental holiday home providers with the Interhome and Interchalet brands, and the business travel specialists bta first travel and Finass Reisen also belong to the Hotelplan Group portfolio. The IT, Finance, Digital and Strategy and Communications departments are managed centrally. Hotelplan Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives, Switzerland’s largest retail organisation with headquarters in Zurich. |
Business Units
Hotelplan Suisse is the largest Swiss tour operator and the Swiss subsidiary of the internationally active Hotelplan Group with approximately 550 employees. The branch network is made up of 82 agencies throughout Switzerland.
The Hotelplan Group bundles its beach vacation and city trip business under the Volume Tour Operating segment. This includes the Hotelplan, Migros Ferien and vtours brands. The flight broker business in Switzerland and Germany is also part of the division.
Hotelplan UK is active in the specialized niche business with a broad range of products. The winter business includes the Inghams, Esprit and Santa's Lapland brands. The individual hiking and cycling holidays of Inntravel and Explore Worldwide provide a balance in summer.
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Interhome Group
Interhome Group highlights sustainable holiday accommodation
May 25, 2023Visitors to the Interhome Group websites can now search specifically for sustainable accommodation. The Swiss holiday home provider is thus responding to the growing demand for sustainable holiday homes and apartments.
Interhome Group
Interhome guests plan holidays further ahead again
May 4, 2023Interhome Group's latest holiday home report shows restored consumer confidence among Swiss holidaymakers. Not only are Swiss guests planning and booking their holiday accommodation earlier again – the findings also show an unbroken trend for spending winter holidays in Switzerland and that long-term summer stays are becoming more and more popular.
Hotelplan Group
Torge Petersen to head Volume Tour Operating at Hotelplan Group
April 17, 2023Torge Petersen will assume responsibility for Hotelplan Group's beach holiday and city break division as well as holidays for which customers organise their own travel to the destination on 1 July 2023, taking over from Katja Altmann, who has headed the division on an interim basis since September 2022.
Hotelplan Group
Mario Irminger and Michel Gruber join the Board of Directors of Hotelplan Group
April 13, 2023Mario Irminger and Michel Gruber are to complement the Hotelplan Group Board of Directors. Michel Gruber will serve as the board's chairman. They succeed Fabrice Zumbrunnen, who is stepping down from the Hotelplan Group Board of Directors at the end of April due to a career change.