We are a collection of 11 award-winning specialist travel brands that, together, champion the extraordinary diversity of travel. Our portfolio encompasses Carrier, CV Villas, Explore Worldwide (B Corp), Inghams, Inntravel (B Corp), Journey Latin America, Jules Verne, Kirker, Kuoni, Santa’s Lapland and Solmar Villas.
Our brands are independently run but united by shared values including exceptional service, authentic experiences and responsible travel. Our expert teams deliver high-quality, tailor-made travel experiences - from luxury villa stays and cultural group tours to adventure travel, walking holidays, ski and unforgettable family trips.
With its UK headquarters in Dorking, DERTOUR UK is proud to be a member of DERTOUR Group, a leading international tourism company with over 100 years of history.
DERTOUR Group encompasses 180+ companies across the world, employs around 13,000 international travel experts and serves millions of guests each year.
Deutsches Reisebüro – which through developments and acquisitions would evolve into today’s DERTOUR Group - was founded in Berlin, Germany
Walter Ingham founds Inghams. He is credited as the man who took Britain skiing, launching with six winter trips in his first year
Peter Diethelm establishes the Kuoni UK tour operation, 60 years after Alfred Kuoni launched his pioneering travel agency in Switzerland in 1906
CV Villas is established by husband-and-wife team Patricia and Richard Cookson, selling villa holidays to the north-east coast of Corfu
Philip Morrell launches Voyages Jules Verne (now Jules Verne) with the initial aim of operating a train journey from London to Peking (Beijing) and onwards to Hong Kong
Journey Latin America is founded by Brian Williams and Chris Parrott, inspired by their own travels in South and Central America during time spent teaching in Rio de Janeiro
Ian Pollitt and his wife Carole open Carrier, a small travel agency in Alderley Edge specialising in tailor-made trips to Africa
Explore Worldwide is launched by Derek Moore and Travers Cox, offering six tours in a four-page brochure
Inntravel is founded by Richard and Linda Hearn, selling short ferry breaks to France
The entire tour operator business that has evolved from Deutsches Reisebüro begins trading under the DERTOUR name
Kirker Holidays is founded by Christopher and Angie Kirker, offering short breaks to Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Florence and Rome
John and Maria Tayler set up Solmar Villas, having rented out Menorcan properties they owned themselves and helping friends to do the same
DERTOUR becomes a 100 per cent subsidiary of REWE Group, one of the leading trading companies in Europe
Santa’s Lapland begins as a programme of day-trips to Rovaniemi, Finland, under the Esprit brand, evolving by 2011 into the short-break programme that continues today
DERTOUR takes over Kuoni’s European tour operator and sales businesses, including Kuoni UK, Carrier, CV Villas, Jules Verne and Kirker in the UK
DERTOUR acquires Journey Latin America
DERTOUR acquires Solmar Villas
DERTOUR acquires Hotelplan Group, bringing Explore Worldwide, Inghams, Inntravel and Santa’s Lapland into the DERTOUR UK portfolio