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                        <title>Top 50 interview: &#8216;People will continue to travel&#8217;</title>

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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 23:10:44 +0000</pubDate>

            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Arjen Lutgendorff]]></dc:creator>

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What challenges and opportunities await the travel industry in the next five years? That is the common thread in the traditional Top 50 interview with opinion leaders from the industry, which was published in the anniversary edition of the Top 50. Want to reorder the Top 50 in print? Click here! Because of the 25th &hellip; Lees verder            ]]></description>

            
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What challenges and opportunities await the travel industry in the next five years? That is the common thread in the traditional Top 50 interview with opinion leaders from the industry, which was published in the anniversary edition of the Top 50.  Want to reorder the Top 50 in print? Click here!  Because of the 25th anniversary of the Top 50, we are mainly looking ahead. &#8220;People will continue to travel.&#8221; This year&#8217;s discussion participants, led by publisher Tom van Apeldoorn, are: Joyce Fonteijn (Kupers Reizen), Hilda van der Wel-Gonzalez (Avila Reizen), Helen van Berkel (ATPI), Maaike van der Windt (at the time of this interview director at de Jong Intra Vakanties for three weeks), Nico Bleichrodt (Holland America Line), Hans Knottnerus (Sunny Cars), Frank Oostdam (ANVR),  Don Kaspers (The Travel Club), Charles Verstegen (Transavia) and Arjan Kastelein (Personal Touch Travel). The interview took place during a dinner at Restaurant Bloei/Hotel Flora Batava in Nieuwersluis.  Van Apeldoorn: &#8216;What would it mean if there was 30 percent less capacity at KLM? Fewer flights, that problem is coming.&#8217; Van der Wel-Gonzalez: &#8216;Restrictions on these trips would have a major economic impact on many countries, resulting in growing poverty and more migration. Tourism has many positive aspects that we need to highlight and make consumers aware of the reasons to continue supporting long-distance travel.&#8221;
Van Apeldoorn: &#8216;It&#8217;s almost hopeless in the media to say that it&#8217;s a good idea to go on holiday.&#8217; Oostdam: &#8216;The alienation is enormous. I do have concerns about the image of travel and tourism in general. We are already in the corner of the tobacco industry. Look at politics and NGOs. It&#8217;s just bashing on tourism.&#8217; Van der Windt: &#8216;It also starts with ourselves. We have to recognise that things have to change and take our responsibility to make travel more sustainable.&#8217;   Van Apeldoorn: &#8216;But how?&#8217;  Van der Windt: &#8216;There is no single silver bullet. We all know that the train is not yet good enough and that electric flying is still a long way off, but we have to slowly but surely get something going together.&#8217; Knottnerus: &#8216;Only one percent of the people who book a car with us want an electric car&#8230;&#8217; Bleichrodt: &#8216;Our society is striving for climate goals between 2030-2050, but it&#8217;s as if the travel sector has to be ready tomorrow. The media is increasingly talking about flight shame. A journalist recently asked me whether consumers also suffer from cruise shame. All ugly words and mood-mongering. And every day I&#8217;m stuck in traffic. First, look at yourself. Do you need two cars, for example? Apparently, the travel sector is a quick win for the media and politicians.&#8217;  Van Apeldoorn: &#8216;Are consumers asking for more sustainable options?&#8217;  Fonteijn: &#8216;There are no customers who actively ask us about it, no. But that doesn&#8217;t mean we shouldn&#8217;t do anything about it.&#8217; Oostdam: &#8216;We have an obligation to take action ourselves. The ANVR is working on a new sustainability ambition. That will rub off from time to time. I&#8217;ve been in sales and when it was said that there was no demand for a product, my reaction was: if you don&#8217;t put it down, then there is no demand for it. Put more sustainable products in the &#8216;shop window&#8217;. Van der Windt: &#8216;As a travel industry, we have to tackle it collectively.&#8217; Kaspers: &#8216;In the business market, you do see huge shifts, especially from companies that require employees to choose the sustainable travel option(s).&#8217; Van Berkel: &#8216;Absolutely. Especially in listed organizations, where compliance and governance are very essential. You&#8217;re talking about 40 percent of the corporate organizations.&#8217; Kastelein: &#8216;But they have to. Individual consumers have much less of that &#8216;need&#8217;. Knottnerus: &#8216;It&#8217;s also a mindset. Before corona, I used to go to Munich twice a month, but I haven&#8217;t been there for three years. We have those conversations online. That is also a decision of principle from myself.&#8217; When asked where his company will be in five years&#8217; time, Charles Verstegen (Transavia) answered: &#8216;We want to keep flying on the market with a good feeling. Accessibility is currently under considerable pressure. Hold on to your heart next year to see what the rates will do. Then what Schiphol is going to do, what it is going to shrink in capacity, but also what other airports such as Rotterdam and Eindhoven are going to do. It&#8217;s really not getting any cheaper in the Netherlands. Accessibility is really under pressure, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m fighting for. But we want to maintain the good feeling, for our employees that they can fly well and safely, but also for our customers and partners.&#8217; Kastelein (Personal Touch Travel): &#8216;In any case, we are on the right side of the industry with our independent travel advisors. We are, of course, lean and mean and always will be. We have made it very clear in our mission that we want to be the best travel company in the Netherlands.&#8217;
Digital Read the full interview in the digital edition of the Top 50: Back to the Future.  And read the new list of the 50 largest travel companies. This one has a new top three after years. In addition, many newcomers, not only in the Top 50, but also in the sublists of largest tour operators and retailers. Order the new edition of the special Top 50 issue of TravMagazine here.

Photo (from left to right): T.J. van Apeldoorn (TRAVel Media), Arjen Lufgendorff (TRAVel Media), Joyce Fonteijn (Kupers Reizen), Frank Oostdam (ANVR), Theo de Reus (TRAVel Media), Don Kaspers (The Travel Club), Nico Bleichrodt (Holland America Line), Hilda van der Wel-Gonzalez (Avila Reizen), Hans Knottnerus (Sunny Cars), Helen van Berkel (ATPI), Arjan Kastelein (Personal Touch Travel), Tom van Apeldoorn (TRAVel Media),  Maaike van der Windt (at the time of this interview, director at de Jong Intra Vakanties for three weeks) and Charles Verstegen of Transavia. (Photo Bastiaan Musscher).
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                        <title>Read digitally now Top 50: Back to the Future</title>

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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:15:44 +0000</pubDate>

            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Redactie TravMagazine]]></dc:creator>

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The Top 50 is 25 years old and we are celebrating with the fattest edition ever. This anniversary edition contains a lot of news. After years, the list of the 50 largest travel companies has a new top three. In addition, many newcomers, not only in the Top 50, but also in the sub-lists of &hellip; Lees verder            ]]></description>

            
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The Top 50 is 25 years old and we are celebrating with the fattest edition ever. This anniversary edition contains a lot of news. After years, the list of the 50 largest travel companies has a new top three. In addition, many newcomers, not only in the Top 50, but also in the sub-lists of largest tour operators and retailers.  Want to reorder the Top 50 in print? Click here!
  It shows how dynamic the travel world is. Nothing is set in stone. Sometimes companies disappear, such as the bankrupt Vacancesoleil, which appears in the list one more time, but more often new companies pop up. It gives confidence for the future. And that&#8217;s what we look at in this edition in particular; the future of the travel industry, with a brief look at the past year. Not for nothing, then, is our theme &#8220;Back to the Future. Wondering how the travel industry will shape up over the next few years? This and more can be read in the new edition of TravMagazine&#8217;s special Top 50 issue, which reaches subscribers this week and can also be read digitally. In the traditional Top 50 interview, we discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the travel industry over the next five years. We look ahead with Hilda van der Wel-Gonzalez (Avila Reizen), Frank Oostdam (ANVR), Joyce Fonteijn (Kupers Reisinfo), Nico Bleichrodt (Holland America Line), Hans Knottnerus (Sunny Cars), Don Kaspers (The Travel Club), Charles Verstegen (Transavia), Arjan Kastelein (Personal Touch Travel), Helen van Berkel (ATPI), Maaike van der Windt (de Jong Intra Vakanties). Discussion leader is publisher Tom van Apeldoorn (TRAVel Media). In the same issue, we speak with Arjan Kers (TUI) about his moment when he walked into TUI&#8217;s Rijswijk headquarters nine years ago and how the travel industry has changed in recent years. But also how he developed himself. Martin van Kranenburg once stood at the cradle of the D-reizen website, but is now one of the most in-demand conversion, personalization, &#8211; and neuromarketing specialists in the Netherlands. The author of the book &#8220;Writing for the Brain,&#8221; he knows better than anyone how to influence the unconscious brain on websites, in newsletters and on social media. He tells us what impact AI is going to have on the travel industry. Young talent is also featured. Thijs van Toorenenburg (Travel Talent 2023) gives us an insight into how his generation looks at the future of the travel industry and which topics will play a bigger role in the future. Read all the interviews, the figures, the expectations and more in the special Top 50 issue that reaches TravMagazine subscribers this week and can also be read digitally. https://issuu.com/trav_media/docs/top_50_2023?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ
 
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                        <title>Anniversary edition Top 50 presented at VIP event</title>

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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:01:52 +0000</pubDate>

            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Theo de Reus]]></dc:creator>

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In the presence of more than 70 invited guests, the anniversary edition of TravMagazine&#8217;s Top 50 was presented Thursday evening. This happened during a VIP evening in the LuminAir skybar at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Amsterdam. Want to reorder the Top 50 in print? Click here! This year marks the 25th edition of the &hellip; Lees verder            ]]></description>

            
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In the presence of more than 70 invited guests, the anniversary edition of TravMagazine&#8217;s Top 50 was presented Thursday evening. This happened during a VIP evening in the LuminAir skybar at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Amsterdam.  Want to reorder the Top 50 in print? Click here!  This year marks the 25th edition of the Top 50. Reason enough to present this issue in celebration. That happened with an exclusive preview for the invited guests, many of whom are listed in the Top 50 or in one of the other two rankings: the Top 40 tour operators and the Top 40 retail. Partners of the Top 50 were also invited to the VIP event. &#8220;The Top 50 has developed into an institution, into the barometer of the travel industry,&#8221; explained commercial director T.J. van Apeldoorn of TRAVel Media, the publisher of TravMagazine. During the evening, a walking dinner of six courses was served. A to Z Accounts treated to drinks and oysters upon entry. Enlarged covers of previous editions of the Top 50 were displayed in the sky bar. Midway through the evening, Van Apeldoorn and editor-in-chief Theo de Reus unveiled the life-size cover of the 25th edition. This year&#8217;s theme is Back to the Future.    Subsequently, the first copies of the Top 50 edition were handed out as a first, which is thicker than ever this year. Almost everyone immediately flipped to the pages with the new rankings of 50 largest travel companies. Traditionally, the Top 50 is handed out at the departure of the ANVR Congress. That will happen next Thursday at Schiphol Airport, when conference delegates leave for northern Spain. Later that week, the Top 50 will be delivered to subscribers.  Photo: T.J. van Apeldoorn and Theo de Reus unveil the life-size cover of the anniversary edition of the Top 50. (Photos Nils van Houts).
The first pictures can be found on the Facebook page of TravMagazine.Watch the impression of the VIP event below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yN_giKIUuM (Video: Dylan Cinjee).  
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