Innsbruck (pps) Tiscover with their headquarters in Innsbruck, Tyrol, are new title sponsors of the luge Challenge Cup. Tiscover was founded in 1991 as “TIS GmbH” and developed the first electronic tourism information system in Austria. In 1995 the TIS@WEB, one of the first tourism websites was launched. Today, the Tiscover GmbH is an operation of the Cologne-based HRS – Hotel Reservation Service Robert Ragge GmbH – and employs a staff of about 80 as well as a freelance staff of 40.
The travel website www.tiscover.com offers more than 25,000 bookable rooms in the Alps. With a total number of 23 million users, 420 page impressions and more than one million queries and bookings in the year 2008, it figures among the most successful travel websites world-wide. Extensive information on more than 2,000 travel regions and locations, about 800 ski-regions and 700 swimming lakes help the guests to individually plan a stay in the Alps. Additional services such as weather and snow forecasts,
live-cam pictures, route planner and picture galleries round off the offer.
The Tiscover website is an important marketing and distribution partner for tourism providers, mainly destinations, marketing networks and accommodations. An entry on www.tiscover.com increases the demand for the offered services and thus results in an increased number of bookings.
The team of Tiscover Destination Marketing see themselves as a full-service provider for professional online marketing of destinations. The services comprise conception and programming of destination websites, back-office tools and professional handling of queries and bookings in tourism offices as well as development and implementation of e-marketing campaigns, that will profit from the range of the websites Tiscover.com and HRS.de.
Contact
Tiscover GmbH
Maria-Theresien-Strasse 55-57
6010 Innsbruck, Austria
www.tiscover.com
Media Contact
Claudia Baer
t +43 512 5351 625
f +43 512 5351 600
claudia.baer@tiscover.com
