Rotel Tours

Rotel Tours is a tour operator that specializes in overlanding via "rolling hotels", custom built buses in which guests also sleep. The buses can sleep 24-34 guests, a driver and a tour guide. Guests ride in front during the day, and then move to a triple deck of berths in the rear at night.
The company is a subsidiary of Georg Höltl GmBH & Co. KK, based in Tittling, Bavaria, Germany.
The company offers tours on 6 continents.

History

Rotel Tours was founded in 1945 by Georg Höltl.
The company was originally called "Internationale Begegnungsfahrten". In 1965, 52,000 people traveled via the company. In 1966, the company offered a two-and-a-half-month journey across India as well as pilgrimage trips to Israel.
In 1969, the company operated one of the first tours to cross the Sahara Desert.