About Omnibus Revue

Omnibus Revue

The OMNIBUSREVUE is the monthly trade journal for the bus industry in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, published by the Verlag Heinrich Vogel — now TECVIA Media — in Munich. Appearing since 1950 and now in its 76th volume, it addresses bus companies, coach operators and tour organizers with management journalism, vehicle tests, technology news, transport-policy and legal coverage, and tourism intelligence. With a print run of 7,000 copies and a brand family spanning the magazine, the online portal, a newsletter, books, BUS TV and social channels, it is the guidepost — "der Wegweiser" — for the bus industry and group-travel providers.

Overview

The OMNIBUSREVUE (in its own spelling) is a monthly German-language trade journal (ISSN print 1436-9974, ISSN online 2364-9577) for transport companies, bus operators and tour organizers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The 2026 media data records nine issues per year in the 76th volume, published by TECVIA Media GmbH / Verlag Heinrich Vogel, Aschauer Straße 30, 81549 Munich (telephone 089/203043-0). The editor-in-chief is Gerhard Grünig. The print run is 7,000 copies, with an average actually distributed circulation of 6,816 and sold circulation of 2,661 (IVW annual average). Three quarters of the readers work in management positions — mostly owners, managing directors or managers. The magazine reports on trends, transport-policy and legal topics, and news from management, technology, tourism and trade. The brand encompasses the magazine, the omnibusrevue.de online portal, a newsletter, books, BUS TV films, and presences on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. The journal holds memberships in the industry associations bdo, RDA and VPR.

History

The OMNIBUSREVUE has appeared since 1950, making it one of the oldest continuously published transport trade journals in the German-speaking world. It was founded in the early years of the Federal Republic, when the coach-tourism boom was beginning and bus companies needed a professional voice. The publisher, Verlag Heinrich Vogel, is the Munich specialist house for transport and logistics media; in its current form the publishing operation trades as TECVIA Media GmbH, the Vogel group's transport-media arm. Over 76 volumes the journal has tracked the industry's transformations: the liberalization of long-distance bus transport, the rise and regulation of the coach-tourism market, the successive emissions standards for buses, and the current shift to electric and alternative drives. The media data's "Short Facts" present the brand's current self-understanding: the guidepost for the bus industry and other group-travel providers, supporting entrepreneurs and managers with well-founded, industry-tailored management contributions, tips for everyday business, current legal articles, detailed vehicle tests, technical innovations and useful information on group-travel trends and destinations. The online portal, the newsletter and BUS TV were added as the brand expanded beyond print into a crossmedia offering.

Coverage and Content

The editorial programme is organized around the bus entrepreneur's working world. Management contributions address the business of running a bus company: personnel, financing, digitalization and succession. Vehicle tests put new coaches through their paces — the "Kamera läuft, Bus fährt" video series, for example, rides along in the new MAN Lion's City and the Setra S 519 HD. Technical innovations cover drives, safety systems and workshop technology. Transport-policy and legal articles track the regulation that shapes the industry, from driving-time rules to emissions law. Tourism coverage serves the coach-tour operators: group-travel trends, destinations and the trade — "Es fährt ein Bus nach Istrien" on travel after the standstill, the Hafencity Riverbus amphibious city cruise, the Euro Bus Expo and BUS2BUS 2026 trade fairs. The tourism journalism addresses the coach operator as a travel professional: which destinations are booking, which group-travel trends are emerging, how the trade fairs connect operators with destinations and service providers. The Euro Bus Expo and BUS2BUS coverage — the latter billed as the trade fair for mobility — positions the journal as the industry's fair companion, reporting the vehicle premieres and the business conversations. The "Ein Bus geht baden" story on the Hafencity Riverbus shows the lighter side of the tourism coverage: the amphibious bus that takes Hamburg's visitors from street to water, a city-cruise innovation that coach operators watch as a potential product. The MidiBus section covers the midibus segment — the smaller coaches for group travel, shuttle services and flexible route operations that have grown with the diversification of group transport. The MidiBus section covers the midibus segment. The online portal supplements the magazine with constantly updated news, an industry directory and BUS TV films. The 2026 media data cites the Deutsche Fachpresse special analysis with the LAE 2024: 85.5 percent of B2B decision-makers use specialist journals regularly or occasionally, 48.2 percent regularly — the audience argument for the advertising business.

Organization and Ownership

The OMNIBUSREVUE is published by the Verlag Heinrich Vogel, operating as TECVIA Media GmbH, Aschauer Straße 30, 81549 Munich. The Vogel group is the long-standing Munich publisher of transport, logistics and tourism trade media, and the bus journal is its coach-industry flagship. The editor-in-chief is Gerhard Grünig (gerhard.gruenig@tecvia.com, 089/203043-2184). The journal's industry anchoring is formalized through memberships in the bdo (the federal association of German bus operators), the RDA (the international coach-tourism federation) and the VPR (the association of packagers) — the three organizations that represent the readership. The commercial model is the B2B trade journal: subscriptions and controlled circulation to the industry's decision-makers, plus advertising from the bus manufacturers (MAN, Daimler/Setra, Iveco and others), the component suppliers, the tourism destinations and the trade-fair organizers. The media data sells the brand as a complete package: magazine, online portal, newsletter, books, BUS TV and social media, with the 2026 rate cards for the Technik and Touristik editions. Sales contact is sales.munich@tecvia.com.

Digital Presence

The digital home is omnibusrevue.de, the online portal of the monthly journal, carrying constantly updated industry news, the media library with the "Kamera läuft, Bus fährt" video series, the industry directory and the BUS TV films. The portal's news flow covers the trade fairs (Euro Bus Expo, BUS2BUS 2026), the vehicle launches and the tourism business in real time. The newsletter extends the brand into the email inbox. BUS TV provides the video journalism — test drives and industry reports in film form. The social presences on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram serve the industry's professional networks. The 2026 media data is published as PDF downloads through tecvia-media.com, documenting the brand's current facts: nine issues, 76th volume, the editor-in-chief, the Munich address and the association memberships. Between the monthly print magazine, the daily online portal, the newsletter, BUS TV and social media, the OMNIBUSREVUE operates as the complete crossmedia brand for the German-speaking bus industry — the guidepost for the bus branch since 1950, from Munich to the coach parks of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The 76 volumes document an industry that the journal helped professionalize: from the post-war coach pioneers to the modern mobility service providers, from the diesel coach to the electric bus. The three association memberships — bdo, RDA, VPR — formalize what the readership structure already shows: three quarters of readers in management positions, the owners and managing directors who decide on the next vehicle purchase. For them the OMNIBUSREVUE remains, in the media data's words, the "Wegweiser" — the signpost — for the bus industry and the group-travel business, in print nine times a year and online every day, since 1950, from the Vogel house in Munich, for the bus industry.