05.02.2024

Cristian Pandel, CEO of tour operator Christian Tour, a major player on Romania’s tourism market, plans to acquire some market players to expand the company. The travel agency is already in talks to more

02.14.2024

Christian Tour Holding, owned by brothers Cristian and Marius Pandel, has received the approval of Romania's Competition Council for the acquisition of the majority stake of 51% in the company more

12.04.2023

Romania’s Competition Council on Monday announced it was reviewing the deal whereby travel agency Christian Tour intends to take over AnimaWings Aviation, a company specializing in charter flights. more

01.03.2022

Cristian Pandel, CEO of travel agency Christian Tour, expects turnover to reach 90-95% of 2019 level in 2022. more

11.08.2021

Travel agency Happy Tour, one of the biggest players on the market, in the first nine months of this year registered EUR12 million turnover, matching the entire 2020 level and expects to reach the more

06.30.2021

Happy Tour CEO Javier Garcia del Valle has acquired the full stake in the tour operator from Spanish investment fund GED Capital through his company Hey, Be Well! AG. more

05.24.2021

Travel agency Christian Tour, part of Memento Group controlled by Cristian Pandel, had a turnover of RON19.6 million in 2020, under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, down 53% from RON42.2 million more

06.24.2019

Lidl Tour estimates its turnover will grow by more than 60% this year, similar growth to last year's. more

01.09.2018

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11.30.2017

Tour operator G2 Travel, which has been in business in Romania since 2012, plans to boost headcount in Bucharest by 50 people, for a total of 400. G2 Travel provides services to the travel trade in more

07.24.2016

Travel agency Christian Tour, the largest charter operator in Romania, controlled by the Pandel family, registered a turnover of EUR46 million in the first half of 2016, up 25% against the same period more

06.06.2016

German retailer Lidl, part of Lidl & Schwartz group, enters the Romanian tourism market, launching online vacation store Lidl Tour, with vacation packs created for its clients. more

01.26.2016

Happy Tour group reported a turnover of EUR94 million in 2015, up 40% on the year, due to a 23% increase in the number of business clients and a 20% hike of the number of leisure clients, the company more

10.23.2015

Christian Tour, the largest local operator of charter vacations, reported 15% higher sales in January-September, to EUR55 million, from travel services sold to 180,000 tourists, the company said in a more

07.14.2015

Christian Tour, the largest local operator of charter vacations, announced Tuesday it will be opening branches in Hungary, Serbia and Poland. more

04.09.2015

A little more than 270 million passengers chose road transporters last year to travel in and outside Romania, down 1% against 2013, and of this total around 2.5 million passengers traveled abroad, up more

02.25.2015

Christian Tour, the largest local operator of charter vacations, had sales of EUR52 million last year, from EUR45 million in 2013, and targets to reach EUR63 million this year, the tour operator said more

01.13.2015

Christian Tour, one of the largest tour operators in Romania, will open branches in neighboring Hungary and Serbia this year and will open an online agency that will mainly promote offers in Romania, more

12.17.2014

Happy Tour group, which includes Happy Tour travel agencies, Paravion online booking portal, Prestige Tour tour operator and Travel House, in 2014 gained two new corporate clients-MOL, with revenue of more

11.03.2014

Victor Ponta and Klaus Iohannis will run in the second round of presidential elections in Romania after a first round where none of the other candidates became a serious option that should tip the more

07.29.2014

The story of Filadelfia group, a business set up in Bistrita-Nasaud county by Ioan Sighiartau, a former employee of Rombat Bistrita, started in 1999, by accident, after a request to operate a trip to more

07.15.2014

Tabita Tour will invest over EUR2.5 million this year in new buses, the development of a new passenger boarding terminal and software that will allow the online sale of tickets on international more

06.02.2014

Happy Tour Group, the leading Romanian tour operator, had sales revenue of EUR60 million in 2013, lower than in 2012. more

02.25.2014

Travel agency Christian Tour posted revenue of EUR45 million in 2013, up 30% year-on-year, while its profit hit EUR0.7 million, according to company owner Cristian Pandel. more

12.24.2013

After a year ending with double-digit growth rates in some cases, travel agencies expect to have a good 2014, as well. more