For more than 100 years the tourism industry has been one of the main pillars of the Spanish economy. In 2008, the Iberian Kingdom recorded 54.7 million tourists, mainly from Great Britain, Germany and France.

Due to increasing customer expectations and in tightening of international competition the tourism sector is stagnating for a couple of years. Local tourist managers are aware of that problem and therefore increasingly focus on quality tourism and marketing professionalization.

The European supplying industry will be able to benefit from these resulting chances by using the more than 250,000 up-to-date addresses of hotels, accommodation facilities, restaurants, caterers, bakeries, butchers and food business from the Spain offered by Gastro Contact from now on.

Additionally the direct marketing company recently opened a place of business in Madrid.
This benefits Spanish suppliers to expand nationally and internationally and enables European enterprises to enter the market in the Iberian Peninsula.

According to the WIFO (Austrian Institute for Economic Researches) Great Britain is, next to Spain, one of the major growing markets within the EU-15 tourism industry. In 2008, Great Britain recorded 36 million foreign tourists and researchers estimate an annual growth of 4.5 % in tourism exports (average within the EU 3.6 %).

This is a great opportunity for all suppliers of the hotel industry and gastronomy who also want to operate beyond the European mainland.

From now on Gastro Contact is also offering more than 100,000 up-to-date addresses of hotels, accommodations, restaurants, caterers, bakeries, butchers and food business companies from the United Kingdom.

In conjunction with extensive selection possibilities, fair prices and a consequent guaranty of quality, Gastro Contact provides a solid basis for a successful market entry in Great Britain to the supplying industry in the out-of-home market.

While in 2002 in the Slovakian lodging industry there were about 118.168 beds available, so in 2007, only five years later, the number raised to 146.655. This equates an average per-year-growth of the lodging capacity by 4,4%. The Slovakian government is quite aware of the importance of tourism for its country and has developed a program to enhance their tourist infrastructure.

This creates a great opportunity for the hotel & catering supplying industry based in Western Europe, which has a chance to score with a great know-how and high quality. Due to the geographical location the Slovakian market becomes especially interesting to German and Italian spoken areas.

GastroContact now offers 30.000 currently updated specialised addresses from Slovakia which alleviates the access to the potential customers.

An extensive data basis with a preferably high market coverage is one of the most important preconditions of solid success in the comprehensive entry in a new market. Addresses disposing of a respectively high purchasing potential and which are preferably precicely selectable, form the core of every highly efficient and therefore successfull acquisition of new customers.

The company, which has been successfully operating on the market since 1990, carries out research and currently updates addresses, contact data, characteristics and potentials of the hotel and gastro sector in the countries of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Benelux and newly also the Czech Republic.

This enables the hotel and gastro supplier industry a detailed sector and area selection as well as a depth selection according to size, positioning and equipment.
By means of the market entry in the Czech Republic, GastroContract now disposes of more than 1.170.000 European industrial sector addresses.

Gastro Contact additionally supports hotel and gastro deliverers in the whole of Europe in dispatching advertising mailings resp. develops mailing concepts and mail-order catalogues in the full service, if required.