New owners secured for the Hotelplan Group

Migros has secured highly experienced new owners for the entire Hotelplan Group. The DERTOUR Group, one of Europe's leading travel providers, is acquiring the travel agency and tour operator businesses in Switzerland, Germany and the UK. At the same time, the HomeToGo Group, publicly listed in Germany, is acquiring the holiday home specialist Interhome, which is ideally suited to the company's HomeToGo_PRO B2B segment. "The DERTOUR Group and the HomeToGo Group provide us with a good solution for the future of the entire Hotelplan Group. The two companies are ideally placed to continue driving the different business areas forward," says Michel Gruber, the Chairman of the Hotelplan Group Board of Directors and Head of the Retail Department at the Federation of Migros Cooperatives. "It's hard for Migros to part ways with Hotelplan after so many years. However, we are delighted Hotelplan has secured such highly experienced new owners who are keen to build on the strengths of the Hotelplan Group and Interhome."

The handover to the new owners is subject to approval by the relevant authorities.

DERTOUR Group welcomes Hotelplan Group

The DERTOUR Group will take over all of the Hotelplan Group's business units apart from its holiday-home operations. DERTOUR, based in Germany, has always relied on well-known brands in its international markets and plans to continue operating the Hotelplan Group brands. "We look forward to leading the Hotelplan Group and its popular and well-established travel brands to further growth as part of our tourism network. As the tourism division of the REWE Group, which is also set up as a cooperative, we are an attractive employer. We already share common values that define our activities. These include offering an excellent customer experience, personal advice and sustainability," explains Dr. Ingo Burmester, the CEO Central Europe and a member of the DERTOUR Group Executive Board. "This step provides clear benefits for our employees, guests and partners." As a part of the international DERTOUR Group, Hotelplan will in future have access to an extensive global network of partners. At the same time, DERTOUR will benefit from the Hotelplan Group's strategic investments in digital solutions, enabling DERTOUR to provide an even more attractive and varied range of high-quality holidays in future.

HomeToGo expanding its portfolio with Interhome

HomeToGo and Interhome already have a successful trust-based partnership that began over ten years ago when HomeToGo was founded. "We're delighted to welcome Interhome to the HomeToGo Group. In this new chapter, both companies will be able to capitalise on their impressive strengths in order to provide both the owners of holiday homes and their guests with an even better booking and travel experience," says HomeToGo CEO and co-founder Dr. Patrick Andrae. "Combining HomeToGo's innovative software and tech-enabled solutions and well-established marketplace with Interhome's outstanding holiday-home and service expertise will pave the way for even more advanced and efficient solutions. Interhome will become a central pillar of our HomeToGo_PRO B2B segment and will retain its usual focus on the rental and management of holiday homes as well as the services and personal support. Interhome will remain an independent company and a traditional Swiss brand with a 60-year history for guests and owners alike, including the local service offices and the accustomed first-class service."

Business areas undergoing further development

DERTOUR and HomeToGo plan to successfully develop the different business areas of Hotelplan and Interhome acquired respectively. Highly skilled and committed employees will play a decisive role in this. The workforce of the Hotelplan Group will be transferred to the new owners as part of the double transaction.

No change for customers as regards holiday plans and bookings

Nothing will change for the customers, holiday home owners and sales partners of all Hotelplan Group brands, including Interhome. The teams will continue to provide customers with the usual high level of service and reliability for booked and future trips, both online and at travel agencies. All booked holidays and business trips will go ahead as scheduled, while the services of all the brands will be available for booking on any desired date.

• About the Hotelplan Group: The Hotelplan Group is an international travel group specialising in leisure and business travel. Its headquarters are situated in Glattbrugg in Switzerland. The Hotelplan Group employs about 2500 people at 238 locations and operates branches, local service offices and business travel centres in 20 countries. The Group generated turnover of CHF 1.78 billion in 2024. Its business units include Hotelplan Suisse, Switzerland's largest tour operator, with the brands travelhouse, tourisme pour tous, and its Volume Tour Operating division, which offers beach holidays and city breaks via the tour-operator brands Hotelplan, Migros Ferien and vtours. Hotelplan UK is one of the UK's largest skiing and hiking holiday specialists, with the brands Inghams, Inntravel, Santa's Lapland and Explore Worldwide. Its portfolio also includes Interhome, one of Europe's leading holiday-home specialists, as well as the two business-travel specialists bta first travel and Finass Reisen. Further information: https://www.hotelplan.com

• About the DERTOUR Group: The DERTOUR Group is the REWE Group's travel division and has its headquarters in the German city of Cologne. It is one of Europe's leading travel groups. More than 130 companies are combined under the DERTOUR Group umbrella. The group employs more than 10,000 people in 16 European countries. Ever year, millions of people travel with one of its tour operators or specialists. The DERTOUR Group includes the tour operators DERTOUR, ITS, Meiers Weltreisen, Kuoni, Helvetic Tours, ITS Coop Travel, Billa Reisen, Koning Aap, Apollo, Exim Tours and Fischer, some 2000 travel agencies (including DERTOUR, DERPART, Kuoni, Exim, Fischer as well as franchise and cooperation partners), hotel brands such as Sentido, Aldiana and Calimera, as well as the online travel portal Prijsvrij Vakanties. The DERTOUR Group is also present locally for its guests: its own network of 71 agencies operates in 31 travel-destination countries. Staff at the agencies in the various holiday regions look after DERTOUR Group guests from arrival to departure. Further information:  https://www.dertour-group.com

• About the HomeToGo Group: HomeToGo was founded in 2014 with a vision to make incredible homes easily accessible to everyone. HomeToGo has since grown to become the SaaS-enabled marketplace with the world’s largest selection of vacation rentals. With 15M+ vacation rental offers across thousands of trusted partners, HomeToGo’s AI-powered B2C Marketplace seamlessly connects travelers with the perfect home for any trip. HomeToGo_PRO, the company’s B2B segment, offers innovative Software & Service Solutions for everyone who wants to be successful within vacation rentals, with a special focus on SaaS for hosts. While HomeToGo SE's registered office is located in Luxembourg, HomeToGo GmbH is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. HomeToGo operates localized apps and websites in more than 30 countries. HomeToGo SE is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the stock ticker “HTG” (ISIN LU2290523658). Further information: http://www.hometogo.com/about