HRS at a glance

HRS - HOTEL RESERVATION SERVICE

Robert Ragge GmbH

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

Sales Director:

Hartmut Keil

Employees:

600 employees worldwide, 300 of them in Germany

Commercial register:

Cologne administrative court, entry no. 6099

Headquarters:

D-50676 Cologne, Blaubach 32

Offices in:

Istanbul – London – Moscow - Paris – Rome – Shanghai – Warsaw – Σιγκαπούρη

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 30,000 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: +49 221 2077 600 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.