OUR CREDO

Think new and different

WHO WE ARE

Deutsche Seereederei GmbH is an active Green-Tech-Hospitality holding company with strategic leadership, management and financing functions for its subsidiaries.

With its subsidiaries, the DSR Group is one of the largest and most innovative players in the German-speaking hospitality and leisure market.

The Group’s success is based on a clear focus on performance:
The DSR Group operates exclusively in established and learned destinations of earthbound tourism and focuses all its activities on preserving and strengthening the environment and local culture.

Business areas

As a Green-Tech Hospitality company, Deutsche Seereederei covers all aspects of the tourism value chain. As a Green-Tech Hospitality company, Deutsche Seereederei covers all aspects of the tourism value chain. From market analysis, strategic product conception and design, development, implementation to successful operation and analogue and digital market penetration, the companies of the DSR-Group cover all stages of the value chain independently with experienced teams.



sustainable, digital & analogue

Construct and Develop

Develop

Construct

Maintain and service

Maintain and service

Operate

Operate

Create experiences

Create experiences



Facts & figures

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Deutsche Seereederei at a glance

34
Hotels

4.300
Rooms

~100
Regions

>2.000
Employees

1.500.000
Guest nights

1.000.000
Experience offers

Sustainability

Considering global challenges, the preservation and strengthening of the environment and regional communities are guiding principles of our activities at all levels of decision-making.

History

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Foundation of Landgasthof an der Elbe (later Louis C. Jacob)

1625

Horst Rahe and Nikolaus Schües take over the DSR Group

1993

First AIDA ship: start of the club cruise ship era

1996

New A-ROSA ships: BLU, DONNA and BELLA

2002

Sale of A-ROSA-river cruise ship business

2009

Launch of the HENRI Hotels brand in Hamburg, 4 more to follow

2014

Foundation of DSR Digital Solutions GmbH with the digital leisure market place 7fridays

2021

Acquisition of Travel Charme Hotel GmbH & Co. KG by DR Hospitality

2024

1952

Foundation of VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock

1995

Takeover of Hotel Neptun, Warnemünde

2000

Sale of AIDA cruise ship business

2004

Opening of first A-ROSA resort at Scharmützelsee, three others to follow

2013

Opening of the 1st aja Resort in Warnemünde, 6 more to follow

Launch of the Premedion Health & SPA Consulting business

2021

DER Touristik Group and DSR Hotel Holding establish DR Hospitality as a joint venture

DSR and Implenia merge in a development company as Rubus Development

2023

The JV DR Hospitality acquires a 75% stake in Italian-based hotel company Mira Hotels & Resorts and thus enters the Italian hotel market with 4 hotels