“For 2009, we will focus on large, corporate clients, on maintaining and consolidating our client portfolio, and even expanding this. This business travel segment will have to be very well administered in 2009, and Happy Tour has proven to be a good manager in terms of corporate clients, providing monitoring, valuating, and option services,” the agency’s General Manager, Gabriel Ionescu, told Business Standard.
The company ended 2008 with turnover worth €51 million, of which the ticketing segment made up 60 percent.
Ionescu said that there will be a slight drop in the number of business trips, due to spending control policies, stricter than in previous years, but insufficient to be a real motive for concern.
Regarding individual travel, the company official added that the number of holidays will slide, but that this does not necessarily means a decline in earnings.
“This is a year of crisis, and now, more than ever, people will want to get away from the stress and pressure of their jobs and day-to-day problems, so holidays will surely be on the list of priorities,” Ionescu added.
