Acquires Netherlands-based corporate travel agency.
Flight Centre has just announced its “first steps into Continental Europe,” with the acquisition of Netherlands-based Business Travel Development, a privately owned TMC which is the FCM Travel Solutions licensee in the Netherlands.
Flight Centre md Graham Turner said the deal was a “cost effective and low risk entry to a key global market,” with future opportunities as a result including the launch of a dedicated SME offering to complement the FCM business, and possibly a leisure travel offering in the longer term.
“Having a company-owned presence in the Netherlands strengthens our proposition for national and multi-national clients and gives us a platform for further growth in the country and in Europe more broadly,” he said.
Flight Centre’s UK business, headed by Chris Galanty, will oversee the new FCM Netherlands operation.
More details in today’s issue of Travel Daily.