Brands Overview

Part of the FTI GROUP, the orange brand FTI Touristik offers holidays in over 120 countries. Offers include hotel-only deals, beach holidays, individual trips, cruises, city breaks and long-distance trips – both package and building block deals. Across Germany, the tour operator sells its extensive product portfolio through more than 10,000 partner agencies as well as through the leading online portals.

With its branch office in Linz, Austria, founded in the year 1995, the orange brand FTI Touristik GmbH is also in the Alpine Republic one of the leading tour operators. Portfolio wise, FTI Touristik Austria sells the entire FTI range of package tours and building block tours including all offers of the FTI rental car broker driveFTI and of the specialist LAL Sprachreisen.

FTI Touristik AG was founded under the name CA Fernreisen and is one of the leading tourism companies in Switzerland. Holiday guests can choose from classic beach holiday destinations as well as long-haul destinations from the tour operator brands FTI Touristik, 5vorFlug and LAL Sprachreisen, but also products from the rental car broker driveFTI. The company is located in Allschwil near Basel.

After being taken over by Starter, the company was renamed to FTI Voyages. Formerly active only in Alsace, the tour operator now operates throughout France. With more than 40 years of expertise in the French tourism market, the company offers worldwide travel with departures from all over France. In addition to numerous accommodations and round trips, FTI offers the best scheduled and low-cost flights available on the market.

The FTI GROUP has been active in the German-Dutch border region for approximately 15 years, has been bookable nationwide in the Netherlands since the beginning of 2016 and maintains its own service center in Hoofddorp near Amsterdam. The orange brand FTI Reizen offers its Dutch customers a selection from its German portfolio as well as additional products and brands especially adapted to the Dutch market.

5vorFlug covers the last-minute travel segment within the FTI GROUP and is one of the largest last-minute tour operators in the German-speaking market. The focus of its the worldwide travel range is on bookings made up to 42 days before departure. Thanks to its modern cash & carry concept, the tour operator offers the best time-to-market services and is therefore always attractively priced.

BigXtra is the largest specialist tour operator in the German-speaking market and focuses on special offers. The distribution takes place via sonnenklar.TV, strong retail partners such as Lidl and Tchibo as well as travel agencies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and the Netherlands. BigXtra offers mainly longer trips during the low season as well as added-value products.

Since 1973, WINDROSE has been a provider of exclusive holidays in the luxury segment with exceptional quality and a very high level of individualisation. Its core business is to identify travel trends and the best hotels worldwide and to create innovative group and individual travel at the highest level. The luxury tour operator is the perfect port of call for the discerning guest.

LAL (Love A Language) is the language tour operator of the FTI GROUP and has been offering its customers the opportunity to learn and master one of nine languages at a variety of locations around the world since 1980. With its own schools in England, Malta, South Africa and the USA as well as 80 partner schools worldwide, the target group includes school pupils, students and adults.

The FTI Ticketshop Group is an umbrella brand of the FTI consolidator for scheduled flight tickets worldwide. The wholesalers enable travel agencies to issue, process and bill for flight tickets quickly and easily 365 days a year and is available for questions on all flight issues and for booking support. There are independent branches in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Belgium.

The fourth largest tour operator in Europe is also active in the cruise business. Onboard the well-known flagship MS BERLIN, the countries along the western and eastern Mediterranean, northern Europe, the Atlantic or the Caribbean can be explored particularly comfortably. The charming cruise ship can accommodate around 400 guests. The language on board is German.

With over 200,000 vehicles per year, the rental car provider is one of the largest rental car brokers in the German-speaking region. The benefits to customers include not being charged an excess in the event of damage, the day's best prices thanks to the Perfect Price System as well as a transparent selection tool with selection options and comprehensive information such as station lists or one-way charges.

sonnenklar.TV is the leading travel shopping channel worldwide. The channel broadcasts 24 hours a day over cable and satellite, has a technical range of 34.07 million households and has up to 650,000 viewers a day, and up to 1.3 million at peak times. sonnenklar.TV is also one of Germany's most-visited travel websites with 31.5 million visits per month.

Touristik Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, founded in 1996, comprises the flight comparison franchise Flugbörse as well as travel agencies 5vorFlug and sonnenklar.TV travel agency. TVG is currently represented in Germany with around 300 agencies in the franchise. The Munich-based company is owned equally by the FTI GROUP and Raiffeisen Vertriebs GmbH.

The flight booking portal has been online since April 2005 and displays offers from over 800 airlines and tour operators for customers to compare. Here it is just as simple to buy outward and return flights with various airlines as it is to book hotels, rental cars and package deals. fly.de has been hailed one of the most customer-friendly flight portals several times.

FTI distributes its products via the approximately 10,000 bricks-and-mortar travel agencies as well as the most important OTAs. To support the travel experts at the counter, FTI has set up a separate service site for all registered sales partners with up-to-date information, news and promotions.

The umbrella brand Meeting Point International operates as FTI GROUP's own destination management company but also represents third-party operators. It operates at more than 40 locations in 20 countries. With its "Operations 24h" department, it is available to guests and travel agencies around the clock and organizes immediate support in emergencies. Meeting Point Rent-a-car and Meeting Point Global are the brands and subsidiaries.

Founded in 2015, the hospitality company consists of 70 establishments with a total of over 14,000 rooms in 11 countries. The portfolio includes LABRANDA Hotels & Resorts, Design Plus Hotels, Kairaba Hotels & Resorts, the budget brand Lemon & Soul and Club Sei. Focused on different customer groups, the brands offer authentic holidays on the beach or in traditional warm weather destinations.

With around 40 years of experience and a total of six language schools in four countries, the FTI GROUP offers students and adults the perfect environment for language learning: In Malta and Gozo, Torbay and London in England, Fort Lauderdale in America and Cape Town in South Africa. The LAL Schools stand for certified quality, an international participant mix and a large selection of courses as well as accommondation. 

FTIAS Limited, based in Malta, has been providing a wide range of back office services to the FTI GROUP since 1990, including accounts-payable accounting through supplier invoice processing, supplier relationship management and account management. FTIAS also offers accounting and reporting services as well as accountancy technology and training for all FTI subsidiaries and third parties.

The FTI GROUP has eight service centres offering 24/7 telephone support to end customers. The largest service centre is erf24 in Erfurt, which offers its services to the FTI GROUP, but also to external partners. Further service centres are located in Deggendorf, Berlin, Munich, Linz, Basel, Amsterdam and Marrakech. The range of tourist services covers everything from advice and booking.

In Hurghada, Egypt, the FTI GROUP has built up an independent company which, by taking over and supporting both sub-processes and entire process chains, is systematically taking the strain off the central departments, divisions and companies of the FTI GROUP worldwide. In addition, a 24/7 model actively supports time-critical processes with regard to the time-to-market goals of the FTI GROUP.

As the only multi-channel provider in the travel industry, the FTI GROUP relies on its own strong IT resources at various locations. To ensure that offers reach customers faster and the FTI GROUP is globally prepared for the technical challenges of the future, development teams in Munich, Berlin, Deggendorf, Poland, Greece and Turkey ensure fast and powerful IT systems.

Youtravel is a leading B2B accommodation provider in Europe offering travel agencies and tour operators exclusive access to first-class hotels and resorts around the world. Accommodation ranges from budget hotels to upscale mid-range resorts and luxury hotels. Part of the FTI GROUP, Youtravel currently has a portfolio of around 8,000 hotels worldwide.

Meeting Point International's subsidiary was founded in December 2016. It complements the classic DMC business and provides access to bed banks worldwide. The network in the service portfolio ranges from direct touchpoints at hotels, channel managers and extranets to collaboration with bed banks and other third-party providers.