HRS at a glance

Established: 1972 as a one-man business. Operated as a "GmbH" (German limited liability company) since 1977
Managing Partner: Robert Ragge – company's founder and its sole partner
Managing Director: Tobias Ragge
Hotel Procurement Director: Michael Simon
Finance Director: Ralf Haasler
Sales Director: Hartmut Keil
Employees: HRS: 370 employees worldwide, 260 of them in Germany
Tiscover: 80 full-time and 40 freelance employees,
80% of them from the hotel industry
Commercial register: Cologne administrative court, entry no. 6099
Headquarters: D-50676 Cologne, Blaubach 32
Offices in: Istanbul – London – Paris – Rome – Shanghai – Warsaw

Tiscover GmbH became a 100% subsidiary of HRS in 2008. The Innsbruck-based alpine portal tiscover.com specialises in providing "your bed in the Alps".

The portfolio

HRS operates a global electronic hotel reservation system for business and private travellers based on a database of more than 250,000 hotels in all price categories in Germany, Europe and the rest of the world. This system enables users to make direct bookings free of charge, with immediate confirmation and at continually-updated special HRS prices. The room prices quoted for selected hotels are guaranteed for the booking in question.

Who uses HRS?

Private and business travellers and companies. More than 20,000 companies are currently connected directly to the HRS system, which they use to make all their bookings worldwide as a way of cutting costs.

Reservation

Online: at www.hrs.de and www.hrs.com in 32 languages.
By phone: +49 (0)221 2077 600 or 01805 477 000 (0.14 euros/min.) around the clock.
HRS Mobil: special apps for the iPhone and BlackBerry as well as via HRS.de and HRS.com on all other smartphones, PDAs and handheld devices in 12 languages.

Corporate services

Industrial companies are connected to the hotel reservation system free of charge using encrypted online partner access. Built-in company rates, a best-buy function, statistics, and adaptation to corporate identities. You also get access to special HRS corporate rates offering discounts of up to 30 percent.

Other skills

Trade fair reservations from our own quotas at all trade fair locations worldwide, with special conditions for staff involved in setting up and dismantling.
Special departments for conventions, conferences, seminars, events of all kinds, group bookings and incentives.
"Meetings Online"/"Groups Online": two tools for direct online processing of appropriate requests at suitable hotels in all categories from the global HRS system.
Online direct booking of 10-20 rooms and a suitable meeting room at hotels in all categories.

Let our hotel professionals support you:

Telephone

0870 2430003*

+44 870 2430003

E-mail

ukoffice@hrs.com

Opening hours

Monday to Sunday:

24 hours a day

* 6,7 pence/min. from the local landline network, different prices from the mobile network, if applicable.

Lufthansa has selected the above partner for hotel bookings through its website. The contract for hotel bookings is to be concluded directly with this partner separately from your flight booking with Lufthansa. Lufthansa is in this respect not a travel agent and cannot be made liable for services carried out by the partner.

All products/services, with the exception of air transportation, are supplied by HRS with whom you form a contract.