Costa Crociere acquires 50% of Welcome Travel Group, society that manages the Network of travel agencies of Alpitour



The crocieristica company Costa Crociere has signed an agreement in order to acquire 50% of the capital of Welcome Travel Group (WTG), society that manages the Network of thousand travel agencies of Alpitour World, group that currently controls it integrally. The operation involves an increase of WTG capital, whose new board of directors will reflect the social composition: as managing director of Welcome Travel Group will be confirmed Gian Paolo Vairo, while the presidency of the society will be entrusted Gianni Onorato, general manager of Costa Crociere.

Emphasizing as Costa and Alpitour have a vision similar in terms of future development of the distribution, the company shipowning has explained that the primary objective of the two partner is that to continue in the development and the increase of the net of Welcome Travel, a Network leader in the quality of the service to the customers in the sale not only of tourist packages but also of produced the cruises, to all advantage of an ulterior development of the market, for the benefit of the final customer.

"We are happy for starting this project with a partner as Costa Crociere - it has commented the president and managing director of Alpitour World, Daniel John Winteler - because draft of an important acknowledgment of the carried out job for the development of the Network Welcome Travel, whose professionalities and seriousness are recognized by the entire tourist market. With this partnership we want to develop the net, in an optical continually improvement of the services to the customers".

"Extremely we are satisfied - it has confirmed the president and managing director of Costa Crociere, Pier Luigi Foschi - in order to have for us realized an agreement of remarkable importance, as it determines the income, for the first time, of Costa Crociere in the distribution in Italy, and ago sharing the property of the truth leader of the Italian distributive panorama".

Costa Crociere, remembering that the company work in Italy with about 10.000 travel agencies, has evidenced as the operation is coherent with the program of renewal of the entire started commercial approach little more than 12 months ago from the company and confirms how much the travel agencies are strategic as channel of sale for the future of produced the cruises of Coast.