School trip organizer Summer Splash is broke

Dear high school graduates!

“Because of the Covid 19 pandemic and the high risk, we decided to pull the” emergency brake “for you SUMMER SPLASH would be simply negligent, ethically and morally irresponsible! A shift is due to the planning uncertainty and unpredictability of the virus (we don’t want to be complicit in a “second wave”) senseless “, it says on the homepage of the Splashline Travel and Event GmbH.“All booked participants will be informed about the reimbursement of the payments made so far via email. We ask for your understanding that we will need time due to the volume and will provide binding information by the end of May / beginning of June.”

And it goes on to say: “Last but not least, we would like to thank everyone involved for the cohesion, our cooperation partners for their loyalty and of course you graduates for your trust! We are always deeply touched by your stories that SUMMER SPLASH “THE” motivation to graduate is. If we really got you to the Matura, you will at least make sense of our work in 2020. THANK YOU ! Our contribution to the greatest achievement of your life so far unfortunately ends HERE and TODAY. We are incredibly sorry and we are keeping our fingers crossed for the upcoming exams.

Now you have to Splashline Travel und Event GmbH pull the ripcord. She has today insolvency According to Creditreform, there are no documents available yet insolvency in front. But there is good news for the company’s almost 15,000 customers. You will get your down payments – a total of around one million euros – from a bankruptcy default insurance. How high the debt mountain actually is can Tour operator not currently saying.

In addition, founder Dietmar Tunkel sent out a long letter.“Even after canceling “Buzzer Splash“2 weeks ago, I really wanted to never have to write this newsletter in my life. But a small, invisible one virus did what nothing, nobody and none for crisis before (there were quite a few) were able to. This virus has my life’s work, the SPLASHLINE, which I called 1995 Travel agency “Do the journey” in Grafenschachen in South Burgenland founded, destroyed“writes founder Didi Tunkel in a broadcast. “After the last trips of the business year 2019/2020, “Brass Palmas”, “Springbreak Europe” and of course “Buzzer Splash“Had to be canceled on May 14th, leaving no (!) Product left and ALL (!) Already booked customers (just under 15,000) gone and we are also legally obliged to return all customer funds already received within 14 days We had to return the customers this morning for the SPLASHLINE insolvency Sign in.”

And further it says: “Also a little bit in the hope that we can get appropriate help from the government received (we didn’t cancel the trips voluntarily, we “were canceled”), we decided from the start not to hold our customers and their parents out, not to unscrupulously collect cancellation fees or to invent any “voucher tricks”, but to safely, quickly and unbureaucratically repay their money. As we have done for the past 25 years, it was a matter of course for me to handle everything correctly even in this extraordinary corona crisis. “

1.8 million euros spent

“Now we have to take the consequences of this. Since no state support, no support package and no credit is adequate and helpful in our particular situation and there has been no call or other reaction from the responsible authorities in the past two weeks only this way for us“writes Tunkel continue. “Zero (!) Euro income is currently offset by 1.8 million Euro expenditure, as well as the obligation to repay over one million Euro to customers. In addition, the question arises: What about 2021? Do such” mass trips “work before one Vaccine is still available? I personally believe no and with this uncertain outlook it is currently not possible to plan sensibly and economically “.

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