{"id":107688,"date":"2023-11-17T12:02:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travmagazine.nl\/new-life-for-pharos-and-fox\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T14:10:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:10:50","slug":"new-life-for-pharos-and-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travmagazine.nl\/en\/new-life-for-pharos-and-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"New life for Pharos and FOX?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The now-defunct Pharos Reizen and FOX travel brands are reportedly being revived. The two brands merged into ANWB Reizen in mid-2021. There is now talk of an imminent management buyout that would re-market the two brands.<\/strong>  TravMagazine spoke to Gert-Jan Bressers, who was appointed in 2017 as general director of FOX, ANWB&#8217;s long-distance travel, and currently works as director of tours at ANWB Reizen. &#8216;We are engaged in a strategic orientation of ANWB Reizen and that is obviously related to our brand policy. 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