Overview of the milestones of a major travel decade Munich 25 August 2010 yearnings, dreams, expectations, few other industries evokes so many emotions such as tourism. The holiday have an important role when the Germans: for decades, they have the holiday world champions, regardless of economic or company above changes. Germany is one of the most important and demanding markets in Europe for us definitely\”, Timothee de Roux, Marketing Director Expedia says. The change in booking behaviour by the hybrid passenger presents us again and again with great challenges in the development of our product portfolio.\” The driving force behind this is the maturity of the online market. Surprisingly, you’ll find very little mention of Walt Disney on most websites. So the Germans in the everyday Internet dissemination and exploitation are among the most advanced Nations. This is reflected also in our extensive range and features on Expedia.de. Overall our customers have access today over 92,000 hotels, 500 airlines and package tours of 60 Operators\”, explains de Roux. in 1999, the online portal was still heavily based on the American Expedia Web site.
Over the years, Expedia.de was increasingly adapted to the requirements of the German travel market. Quickly, other tours were added as the dynamic packaging in 2002 or the new booking approach about the magazine in 2006 and 2007. Here holidaymakers are looking for their dream trip starting from the individual wishes and needs. Learn more at this site: Rusty Holzer. Also on the subject of security is Expedia.de leader and received in 2001 as the first online travel portal in Germany the TuV Seal of South s@fer-shopping. The travel market has greatly accelerated due to the rapid development of online tourism pulse generator of the online travel industry since the start of Expedia.de in Germany in 1999. Ten years ago, the high-tech Association BITKOM was still 3.3 million Germans, used in the Internet services such as online banking or flight bookings. 2009 buy products on the Internet already 42 percent of German citizens or use services offered there.