ABSTRACT
Wolf-Dieter Zumpfort, a member of the board of Touristik Union International, the largest
travel business in the world, and until 2003 chairman of Collegium, the prestigious associ-
ation of lobbyists, is one of the few high-ranking tourism players who has admitted to
being a lobbyist. During an interview he commented on the image of lobbying:
In the hierarchy of the professions professors and parsons are at the top and poli-
ticians, journalists and lobbyists at the very bottom. But that doesn’t bother me.
