German travel association

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The German Travel Association e. V. (DRV) was founded on August 10, 1950 in Frankfurt am Main as the German Travel Agency Association .

tasks and goals

The association is the leading representation of the German travel industry. He represents their interests on a political level and in public at home and abroad. He represents the tour operators and travel agencies of all organizational forms and sizes as well as the tourism service providers (providers of individual services in the travel industry) and service providers vis-à-vis politics and business. The member companies generate around 90 percent of the turnover in the German tourism industry.

  • DRV Service GmbH: DRV Service GmbH is a subsidiary of the German Travel Association and a service company for the entire travel industry. Its range of services is aimed at German and international companies and includes the implementation of seminars, brokerage of business start-up advice, the implementation of marketing campaigns and promotions, the organization of meetings, congresses and the sale of the Travel Industry Card.
  • DRV collective bargaining association: It is responsible for safeguarding employers' interests vis-à-vis the ver.di service union . Members of the DRV are not obliged to join the collective bargaining community. The Association of Hessian Entrepreneurs' Associations (VhU) forms the management of the DRV collective bargaining association.
  • The Talent Academy is a platform for promoting young tourism professionals. It offers the opportunity to network and exchange ideas with the industry and politics. Three formats represent different career levels: Young Talents, Young Specialists and Young Managers.

structure

Within the industry association, the individual interest groups are grouped into a total of five pillars and the group of supporting members. This includes:

  • Pillar A: Medium-sized travel agents
  • Pillar B: Group-linked travel agents
  • Pillar C: Medium-sized tour operators
  • Pillar D: Group tour operator
  • Pillar E: Associated members (travel companies that are neither travel agents nor tour operators, as well as tourism service providers and service providers)
  • Supporting members

Association Board

The DRV is headed by a seven-person presidium and another ten board members. The Presidium consists of DRV President Norbert Fiebig, CFO Dr. Ute Dallmeier as well as the five vice-presidents of pillars A to E. The 17-person board of directors includes two other board members from pillars A, B, C and D - plus two co-opted board members.

  • President: Norbert Fiebig
  • Chief Financial Officer: Dr. Ute Dallmeier (FIRST REISEBÜRO Mönchengladbach GmbH, Mönchengladbach)
  • Vice President: Ralf Hieke (IVR travel agency, Ibbenbüren)
  • Vice President: Andreas Heimann (DER German Travel Agency, Frankfurt am Main)
  • Vice President: Johannes Zurnieden (Phoenix Reisen, Bonn)
  • Vice President: Mark Tantz (DER Touristik Group, Frankfurt am Main)
  • Vice President: Susanne D. Schick (FRAPORT, Frankfurt am Main)

Honorary President

  • Otto Schneider (since 1994), President of the DRV from 1980 to 1994, initially voluntary
  • Klaus Laepple (since 2010), President from 2000 to 2010

Campaigns

Training offensive

The DRV is committed to promoting young professionals in the travel industry. The aim of the industry-wide training offensive is to increase the number of trainees as tourism clerks. Information and tips about the possibilities for training qualified young people, information about starting a career in the travel industry and a job exchange with current advertisements from companies in the tourism industry are used for this purpose.

EcoTrophea

The international DRV EcoTrophea award recognizes innovative and exemplary sustainability projects in the tourism industry. It has been awarded annually by the DRV since 1987. The award is given to individuals, groups, organizations, companies or municipalities who have made an effective, exemplary and innovative contribution to environmentally and / or socially compatible tourism as defined by the association.

Award winners

  • 2019: Futouris
  • 2018: Renard Bleu Touareg travel agency for socially responsible tourism: With nomads through the Moroccan desert
  • 2017: TUI Cruises
  • 2016: Project TourCert Andina
  • 2015: Working group on tourism & development (Switzerland) for the Internet portal fairunterwegs.org
  • 2014: With its “Valuable Water” project, the tour operator Thomas Cook wants to make a contribution to the long-term reduction of water consumption in group and franchise hotels. In addition, the company wants to make the findings from the project available to the tourism industry.
  • 2013: Intrepid Travel as a globally active group tour operator with a branch in Germany for its holistic and high sustainability standards.
  • 2012: The Huilo Huilo Bioreserve in Chile for its holistic sustainability concept, in which nature conservation, social responsibility and tourism are promoted equally.
  • 2011: Montenegro for the extensive hiking and cycling project "Wildernis Hiking & Biking"
  • 2010: Deutsche Bahn AG for the “Environment plus” offer to avoid carbon dioxide emissions.
  • 2009: Hotel Jardim Atlantico on the Portuguese island of Madeira for the resource-saving and energy-saving hotel concept as well as the commitment of the hotel operators to nature and environmental protection in the region.
  • 2008: Project " Alpine Pearls " (Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia) for cross-border cooperation and the holistic approach of a vacation characterized by gentle mobility.
  • 2007: Wildlife Association for Development and Investment (WADI) for their eco hotel concept “Desert Lodge” in the Egyptian Dakhla oasis .
  • 2006: RK Somadasa de Silva, owner and manager of the International Diving School in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka, for the reintroduction of corals off the coast of the tourist resorts of Hikkaduwa and Polhena .
  • 2005: Tour operator Boogie Pilgrim for the combination of environmental protection measures, ecological tourism promotion and income support for the local population in the highland wet forest of Anjozorobe in Madagascar.

DRV help without borders

The DRV Hilfe ohne Grenzen eV association was founded on October 24, 2002 in Dubrovnik . Its purpose is to support people in distress due to natural disasters, terror or acts of war, primarily by providing means of transport for the tourism industry. This goal is to be achieved through the coordination and support of aid measures, cooperation with other non-profit aid organizations and the collection and distribution of monetary and material donations. This also includes the use of transport capacities on land, water and in the air. The association's activities are free of charge. The seat of the association is Berlin. The association was entered on March 31, 2003 in the register of associations at the Berlin-Charlottenburg District Court , No. 22402 Nz.

Memberships

The association is a member of the following organizations:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DRV conference in Hamburg: Fiebig re-elected with a large majority. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  2. ^ DRV conference in Hamburg: Fiebig re-elected with a large majority. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  3. ^ DRV conference in Hamburg: Fiebig re-elected with a large majority. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  4. ^ DRV conference in Hamburg: Fiebig re-elected with a large majority. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ http://www.zukunft-buchen.de Zukunft-buchen.de
  6. ↑ http://www.touristik-azubi.de touristik-azubi.de
  7. ↑ Eco Trophea of ​​the DRV: Futouris receives sustainability award. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Sustainably through the Sahara: Moroccan travel agency receives DRV environmental award. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  9. ↑ https://www.drv.de/fachthemen/nachhaltigkeit/ecotrophea/bisherige-preistraeger.html