Travix International B.V.

Travix International BV
Subsidiary
Industry Travel
Technology
Founded 2011
Headquarters Netherlands
Key people
 John Mangelaars (CEO)[1]
Brands
  • BudgetAir
  • CheapTickets
  • Flugladen
  • Vayama
  • Vliegwinkel[2]
Number of employees
 500 (January 2015)[3]
Parent BCD Group
Website www.travix.com
Amsterdam Headquarters

Operations

Travix International BV (in short, Travix) is a subsidiary of BCD Group. It is BCD's consumer travel division. The company maintains headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Travix manages five websites: CheapTickets, BudgetAir, Vayama, Vliegwinkel and Flugladen. The company is affiliated to SGR, ANVR, IATA and to the Dutch Home Shopping Organization. Travix also has offices in Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, India, Curaçao, United States and Singapore.

CheapTickets and Vliegwinkel operate in the Netherlands and Germany; Vayama does business in the US, Canada, the UK, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore; and BudgetAir has expanded from the Netherlands into Belgium, France and the UK[4].

NB: CheapTickets.nl and CheapTickets.de are not related to CheapTickets.com, which is owned by Orbitz.

Controversy

Travix's many brands have received a large proportion of negative complaints from customers, as compared to peers in the industry[5]. Though, many customer complaints stem from the poor customer service available, when events happen or events go bad[6].

History

Travix was established by a merger of CheapTickets (Beins Travel Group Ltd), Vliegwinkel, Flugladen, BudgetAir (Airtrade) and Vayama in January 2011.[7] The oldest part of the company, CheapTickets.nl, was created in 2001 by Beins Travel in Oosterhout. At first, it published the price of tickets from vacation carriers, regular scheduled airlines and low-cost carriers in the Netherlands.

On October 4, 2018 international travel company BCD Group announced that it would take full ownership in Travix International BV after purchasing all outstanding shares from minority shareholder ING Corporate Investments. [8]

Acquisitions

# Year Company Price Ref(s).
1 2011 EasyToBook [9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "John Mangelaars Chief Executive Officer, Travix International BV".
  2. ↑ "Travix - BCD Group".
  3. ↑ "Travix Facts and Figures". Travix.
  4. ↑ "EasyToBook sold to BCD Holdings leisure mega-group Travix".
  5. ↑ "BBB Accredited Business Profile for Vayama". www.bbb.org. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  6. ↑ "Vayama.com is rated "Great" with 7.0 / 10 on Trustpilot". Trustpilot. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  7. ↑ "Travix - BCD Group".
  8. ↑ "BCD Group increases investment in inline travel company Travix".
  9. ↑ "EasyToBook sold to BCD Holdings leisure mega-group Travix". Tnooz.com.


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