Rotel Tours

Rotel Tours is a German tourism company, a subsidiary of the Georg Höltl GmBH & Co. KK in Tittling, Germany. The company is known for its "rolling hotels", custom-built long-distance buses for travels in remote areas. Rotel Tours offers 3400 beds on these vehicles. Usually, between 20 and 40 people travel together on such a bus, whereas the sleeping cabins - with 1 or 2 beds each - are often located in a separate trailer.

In German post-war tourism, Rotel Tours was a pioneering company. It was founded in 1945 by Georg Höltl, and beginning in 1950, first trips abroad - often pilgrimage tours - to France, Italy, Spain and other countries of the Mediterranean area were carried out. During these travels, the customers usually slept in tents, and these holidays were offered as a way to enhance international encounters and understanding. At that time, the company was called "Internationale Begegnungsfahrten" (verbatim "international encounter trips").

Through the introduction of the rolling hotel concept, a new kind of international tourism was made possible, for example the first land-based trip from Munich to Jerusalem via Turkey in 1959, or the first crossing of the Sahara desert in 1969. Since 1990, Rotel Tours' buses travel through China, Mongolia, Laos and Vietnam.

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