{"id":110451,"date":"2025-07-02T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/german-touristik-becomes-vacanza-the-first-smart-cost-travel-discounter-in-romania\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:00:00","slug":"german-touristik-becomes-vacanza-the-first-smart-cost-travel-discounter-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/german-touristik-becomes-vacanza-the-first-smart-cost-travel-discounter-in-romania\/","title":{"rendered":"German Touristik becomes Vacanza, the first Smart Cost Travel Discounter in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Touristik, part of Memento Group and a former TUI franchise partner, has gone through an extensive rebranding process, becoming, as of July 1, 2025, Vacanza &#8211; the first B2B smart cost travel operator in Romania. The company operates through a network of over 600 partner agencies across the country and offers vacation packages in popular summer destinations at competitive prices. <\/p>\n<p>According to CEO \u0218tefan Leontin Joos, Vacanza introduces a unique business model on the local market, supported by investments in automation, advanced technologies and artificial intelligence. The new system allows real-time comparisons of suppliers&#8217; offers, which helps to maintain favorable prices for customers. <\/p>\n<p>In the first half of 2025, Vacanza saw an 80% increase compared to the same period in 2024, reaching \u20ac25 million in sales and more than 40,000 tourists served &#8211; almost double the 18,000 in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The rebranding comes with the launch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vacanza.ro\"><strong>online platform<\/strong><\/a>aimed at individual travelers, who will be able to set up personalized holidays starting from a basic package (flight + accommodation). They can then add options such as hold baggage, preferred seating, transfers (shuttle or VIP), online check-in and optional excursions. <\/p>\n<p>Vacanza benefits from exclusive partnerships with hotels and vacation clubs, which allows preferential rates due to high sales volumes. With a strategy oriented towards digitalization and flexibility, the company aims to become the second tourism brand in terms of notoriety and sales volume in Romania, after Christian Tour. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Touristik, part of Memento Group and a former TUI franchise partner, has gone through an extensive rebranding process, becoming, as of July 1, 2025, Vacanza &#8211; the first B2B smart cost travel operator in Romania. The company operates through a network of over 600 partner agencies across the country and offers vacation packages in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":107742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[2898],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-110451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-romania-en"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110451"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=110451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}