Atlantis Tours

What Atlantis Tours does

Atlantis Tours, legally operating as "Atlantis Tours & Casa del Sol Reisen," is a private, owner-operated German travel agency headquartered at Obergasse 4, D-63654 Büdingen, Hesse. The company functions as an intermediary for individual travelers, sourcing and booking package holidays, cruises (ocean and river), hotels, flights (charter and scheduled), car rentals, travel insurance, holiday homes, airport parking, and combined hotel-and-rail packages. Julia Knaf is the named Vertragspartner and primary contact person. Revenue is generated primarily through commissions on package holiday bookings with tour operators, complemented by service fees on standalone flight bookings, fees on connected travel services, and insurance intermediation commissions under § 34d Abs. 8 Nr. 1 GewO. Pricing is quote-based, derived from tour operator offerings, with sample package prices ranging from approximately €742 to €1,977 per person.

The technology foundation is a WordPress-based website using the Divi (Elegant Themes) theme, Complianz for cookie consent, Google Analytics and Matomo for visitor analytics, and Google Maps API. Customer engagement is delivered through a combination of a single physical retail storefront (opened July 2024, open Thursdays plus by appointment), phone, WhatsApp, email newsletter via CleverReach, and a self-serve booking engine, with third-party platforms (Booking.com, Holiday Extras, Ameropa) extending product breadth. The company is a partner of Schmetterling International, whose booking platform and processing infrastructure underpins the online booking flow. Atlantis Tours is independent, with no external investors, parent company, subsidiaries, or public listing, and operates with approximately 14 employees. There are no patents, trademarks, formal certifications, or AI/ML capabilities disclosed. Marketing relies on organic social (Facebook, Instagram), WhatsApp, email, content/SEO, and Google Adsense display. The customer base is exclusively B2C individual travelers with no named enterprise accounts; operating geographies cover DACH plus destinations across Southern Europe, Northern Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, the Caribbean, Central America, Southeast Asia, and East Africa.

Name

Atlantis Tours

Legal name

Atlantis Tours & Casa del Sol Reisen

Website

https://atlantistours.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Atlantis Tours is a private owner-operated German travel agency in Büdingen, acting as an intermediary for individual travelers booking package holidays, cruises, hotels, flights, car rentals, travel insurance, and ancillary travel services via a single retail storefront and online platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Travel Agency Services

NAICS

Tour Operators (561520)

SIC

Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

Island, Beach & Resort Travel Agencies (THAKAFAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Inclusive Tour (IT) & Leisure Package Charter Operators (THABADAC)

Keywords

• Package holidays
• Cruise bookings
• Travel agency services
• Flight booking
• Travel insurance

Headquarters

HQ city

Büdingen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Pauschalreisen (Package Holiday) Commission: The company acts as an intermediary (Vermittler) for package holidays from tour operators, earning commissions on bookings without charging service fees for the package holiday components.
2. Flight-Only Service Fees: For standalone flight bookings, the company charges service fees (Serviceentgelte) which are non-refundable upon cancellation unless the cancellation was caused by the agency's error.
3. Connected Travel Services Fees: Service fees charged for booking connected travel services (verbundene Reiseleistungen) where separate contracts are formed with individual service providers.
4. Insurance Intermediation: The company acts as a permitted annex intermediary (Annexvermittler gemäß § 34d Abs. 8 Nr. 1 GewO) for travel insurance products.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Atlantis Tours is a traditional German travel agency that intermediates package holidays, cruises, hotel bookings, flight tickets, car rentals, travel insurance, airport parking, holiday homes, and organized multi-destination tours for individual consumers. The company combines personal in-store and remote consultation with an online booking platform backed by Schmetterling International's booking infrastructure, serving customers primarily across Germany from its Büdingen retail location.

Product overview

Atlantis Tours operates as a traditional travel agency offering a comprehensive portfolio of travel-related products and services. The core offering centers on package holidays (Pauschalreisen) that bundle flights and hotel accommodations with additional services. Supporting products include cruise bookings (both ocean and river), individual hotel reservations, flight bookings (charter and scheduled), car rentals, travel insurance, holiday homes, airport parking, and package tours. The agency functions as a intermediary, using booking systems such as Schmetterling International and Amadeus to source and process travel reservations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pauschalreisen (Package Holidays)
• Kreuzfahrten (Cruises)
• Hotelbuchung (Hotel Bookings)
• Flugbuchung (Flight Bookings)
• Mietwagen (Car Rentals)
• Reiseversicherung (Travel Insurance)
• Hotel und Bahn (Hotel and Rail Packages)
• Flughafenparken (Airport Parking)
• Ferienhaus/Ferienwohnung (Holiday Homes)
• Rundreisen (Package Tours)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Schmetterling International GmbH & Co. KGcoreTechnology or IntegrationSchmetterling International provides the booking platform technology and booking engine for the company's website. The company is a partner of Schmetterling and uses their booking infrastructure for package holidays and cruise bookings. Schmetterling also handles booking processing on behalf of the website owner.
• Booking.comminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorBooking.com affiliate partnership for hotel booking services, allowing access to worldwide hotel inventory through the Atlantis Tours website.
• Holiday ExtrasminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAirport parking services partner, providing parking booking functionality through the website for travelers departing from German airports.
• AmeropaminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHotel and rail package booking partner for customers preferring train travel combined with hotel accommodation.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• TUI Deutschland: Germany's largest tour operator and travel retailer, offering its own package holidays, cruises, and flights through thousands of own-brand travel agencies. Directly competes with Atlantis Tours for package-holiday bookings, but at vastly greater scale and with vertically integrated inventory.
• FTI Touristik: Large German tour operator offering package holidays, cruises, and flights across its own retail and online channels. A direct upstream supplier and competitor to Atlantis Tours, particularly for Mediterranean package holidays.
• Check24: Germany's leading price-comparison portal covering travel, insurance, and more. A major disintermediation threat to traditional agencies like Atlantis Tours, capturing online self-service bookings that would otherwise flow through intermediaries.
• Neckermann Reisen: Re-established German tour operator (under the Anex Tourism Group) offering package holidays across the same Mediterranean and long-haul destinations as Atlantis Tours. Both competes with and supplies similar product lines to small German agencies.
• DER Touristik: Major German tour operator with its own retail-agency network (DER Reisebüro) and broad product portfolio including package holidays, cruises, and hotels. Overlaps substantially with Atlantis Tours' product mix but operates at much larger scale and with proprietary inventory.

Others

• Schmetterling International: Cooperatively owned German travel-services network and booking-platform provider. Atlantis Tours is a Schmetterling partner, and the platform is core to its operations, making Schmetterling both a critical supplier and the closest functional analog (other small Schmetterling-affiliated travel agencies).
• Booking.com: Global OTA and a current affiliate partner of Atlantis Tours for hotel bookings. Represents the dominant self-service alternative to traditional agencies, and a structural headwind to the intermediary business model.

Direct peers

• Schauinsland-Reisen: German tour operator specializing in package holidays with strong Mediterranean and long-haul coverage. Competes directly with Atlantis Tours for the same beach/resort traveler segment, but sells primarily direct and through partner agencies rather than via its own storefront.
• Alltours: German package-holiday tour operator focused on value beach and family holidays. Competes for the same end customer as Atlantis Tours, but sells primarily direct rather than through independent agencies.

Emerging players

• HolidayCheck: DACH-focused travel review and booking platform. Competes for online travel bookings and influences the same leisure-traveler audience Atlantis Tours targets, particularly for Mediterranean and beach destinations.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/reisebueroatlantistours
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/atlantis-tours

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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