The alleged data scandal is making waves in the industry.
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Dusseldorf The alleged data scandal in the tourism industry is making waves: travel agencies and their stakeholders react with anger and the first calls for consequences. Europe’s third largest tour operator FTI and the Raiffeisen-Tours-Kooperation (RTK), Germany’s largest travel cooperation, have come under pressure. A hasty explanation from RTK can hardly smooth the waves.
On Tuesday, the Handelsblatt reported on the suspicion that RTK had allegedly passed valuable sales figures from travel agencies and competitors to the FTI group for years.
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The data should also have been broken down according to the share of sales of other travel providers in the respective offices, divided according to holiday regions. According to insiders, FTI used the numbers for a sales offensive at the expense of competitors.
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