Tour operators and travel agents
Tour operators and travel agents are facing unprecedented change with the unbundling of the typical "package" holiday, the rapid growth of the budget air travel market and online bookings accounting for an ever increasing share of the market.
Our clients have responded by setting up online tour operators, entering into travel ventures making strategic investments in airline seat brokers and outsourcing.
Our experience in the tour operation and travel agent sector includes advising:
- British Airways on the creation of the on-line travel portal Opodo along with eight other major European airlines
- Club Mediterranee in the UK and France on various corporate and employment-related matters
- on the disposal of Dégriftour, France's largest on-line and minitel-based travel agency, to lastminute.com, creating the third largest European e-commerce travel company
- car rental company National in establishing a new marketing and booking system in Germany, including their general business terms
- MARITZ, a major US tour operator, on all aspects of MARITZ's employment matters including individual and collective labour law issues and restructuring
- British Airways on the joint venture between British Airways Holidays and Thomas Cook Holidays
- a number of German tour operators in disputes with travel agencies and customers