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StudentUniverse
Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) is an Australian travel agency. It was founded in 1982, and is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia. FCTG operates under multiple names in Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, South Africa, India, China mainland, HongKong(China), Singapore, United Arab Emirates, and Mexico, and licenses its name in a further 80 countries. In the United States, the company operates under the Liberty Travel and Travel Associates retail brands and GOGO Worldwide Vacations as a wholesale brand. It also operates StudentUniverse, FCM Travel Solutions, Corporate Traveler, ciEvents, Campus Travel, Stage & Screen, and Healthwise. History The company was co-founded by Graham Turner and Geoff Harris in 1982 and began with a store in Sydney. In 1995, Flight Centre UK and Flight Centre Canada opened.André Sammartino (2007), 'Retail', in Dick, H. & Merrett, D. (eds.), ''The Internationalisation Strategies of Small-Country Firms: The Australian Expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FCM Travel Solutions
FCM Travel is the corporate travel business of the Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG). The company is headquartered in Brisbane and operates a network spanning over 100 countries across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas. History FCM was officially launched to market in 2004 following the consolidation of various corporate travel businesses within parent company FCTG. From the mid to late 1990s, FCTG aggressively grew its organic corporate businesses and at the same time made a number of strategic acquisitions to enhance the group's technology capabilities and strengthen its international market penetration. By 2002 FCTG's corporate division included seven different businesses, which in 2004 were consolidated to form FCM Travel Solutions. The reach of FCM's global network broadened significantly with the acquisition of major travel companies including Sydney Business Travel (Australia), Internet Travel Group (Australia), Garber Travel (USA), Bannockburn ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
