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The companies were registered in London and Hong Kong. The office in Switzerland has been established.Fortuna brought the biggest number of Koreans in the Balkan region thanks to the strong promotion activities supported by Fortuna and their partner.Fortuna welcomed charter flight from Korean Air in Jun and September.

Fortuna presented their destinations and products to the Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Sales office in Sao Paolo was established. South Korean Market started to develop intensively.

June, Fortuna Travel Tokyo office has been established in Shibuya Tokyo.

Fortuna travel opened branch office in Japan on February 5th, it is officially registered.Fortuna Travel started the promotion of Croatia and the Balkan region on South Korean market.The representative office has been established in Seoul.

Sales Office in Japan has been established.Fortuna Sports has been launched on the WTM.

Fortuna Travel enters stongly on Spanish and Japanese Market with new powerful partners. Fortuna goes for new technology! New Travel System has been implemented!

Fortuna Travel receives international reputation, as it continues with organizational reforms. Our employees come from all around the world, for instance, Japan, France, Slovakia, Chile, Peru and etc. Fortuna Travel is the first international office in the Croatian Travel Industry. In Feburary, Fortuna Travel together with business partner, Croydon Travel, organized the first Australian charter flight to Dubrovnik. Fortuna Travel enters the North American Market with new powerful partners. Fortuna’s Sales and marketing team started with direct sales and promotion on Overseas markets, as Japan, USA, Australia, Canada and India November 2007.Fortuna has joined a Network of Central and Eastern European DMCs “Pegasus & Partners”. Fortuna travel with it’s brand Fortuna Prestige is recognized as a respectable and luxury service provider in Croatia and the region they represent and promote. Fortuna Prestige together with Fortuna MICE has tramendous expand on the market. Sales Office in Spain has been established.

Fortuna Travel undertook a strategic decision to enter the Australian and New Zealand market. After a successful exhibition at AIME Melbourne, now Fortuna Travel is proud to partner with main TO in the Aussie Market. A new software was implemented to enhance the quality of our internal functions and to further improve communication with our partners. Fortuna Travel and its partners brought in the largest number of Japanese tourist groups to south eastern Europe. Fortuna Travel’s superb services and our clients’ high expectations of our services earned the respect of other agencies; moreover, on December Fortuna Travel became a Virtuoso on site for Croatia.

The forecasts for 2004 indicated additional market growth. Constantly striving to be the best high quality service provider in the industry and to maintain its leadership position, Fortuna Travel developed stronger business strategies. Fortuna Travel continued to invest in the promotions of new and undiscovered markets and further developed incentives and adventure tour business with current and future partners. Thanks to respectable TO such as Croydon Travel, Trafalgar, Inisght, Grand Euripean and JAC Travel, Fortuna Travel has increased its market share in the USA and other countries where English is spoken. Fortuna Travel had operated the first winter series.The top management made another decisive move to be the pioneer to promote the neighbouring countries of Bosnia and Herzegovia, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania and since then had increased the amount of creative and innovative products in the area.

The forecasts for 2004 indicated additional market growth. Constantly striving to be the best high quality service provider in the industry and to maintain its leadership position, Fortuna Travel developed stronger business strategies. Fortuna Travel continued to invest in the promotions of new and undiscovered markets and further developed incentives and adventure tour business with current and future partners. Thanks to respectable TO such as Croydon Travel, Trafalgar, Inisght, Grand Euripean and JAC Travel, Fortuna Travel has increased its market share in the USA and other countries where English is spoken. Fortuna Travel had operated the first winter series.The top management made another decisive move to be the pioneer to promote the neighbouring countries of Bosnia and Herzegovia, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania and since then had increased the amount of creative and innovative products in the area.

As a result of strong promotion and high quality professional services, Fortuna Travel has started the cooperation with Kuoni Incoming and has consolidated our relationship with Kuoni Group. A new and modern software was implemented in order to follow the fast growth of the company(1st DMC to use the leading software for the Travel Industry in Croatia).

New partnerships and co-operations were established with many respectable European TO such as Kuoni Voyages France and Studiosus Germany. In addition, Fortuna Travel became the incoming partner of Kuoni Switzerland and Nouvelles Frontieres, France. Fortuna Travel became a well-known brand name and the leading specialist of coach tours in this area. This year was also significant because of the development of the new and exciting adventure tours, which might become the most requested and growing product in the future.

Strong growth towards the incoming business over outgoing was recorded. Continuous efforts and investments of Fortuna Travel resulted in an excellent return on investments. The first ever Israeli charter flight to Krk Island, Croatia was organized.

This year was marked by the successful organization of the outgoing tours to European capitals for the Millennium! Additional investments were used to promote tourism in Croatia & Slovenia, such as the first incoming brochure “Discover Croatia and Slovenia” with Fortuna Travel.

This year brought consistent growth in the incoming business as our international partners also increased their operations in Croatia and Slovenia. At that time, Israel was still the main market; however, the company continued to promote its high quality services in the main World Travel fairs with strategic goals to expand its coverage to other markets.In accordance with this top management policy, many inspection tours to Croatia and Slovenia were organized for different partner groups.

Fortuna Travel became a member of Thomas Cook Worldwide Network in Croatia for incoming and outgoing tour operations. In the same year, Fortuna Travel became the leading incoming correspondent for the Israeli market with its active promotion in the Israeli market. Moreover, a co-operation with Alpitour, the biggest Italian tour operator was establihsed. Together with Pegasus Vienna, Fortuna Travel has organized initial marketing activities in the Asian market, and a few inspection tours in Croatia.

Fortuna Travel’s management made another strategic decision, which proved to be a milestone in the company’s success. Since 1997, Fortuna Travel has been actively engaged in the promotion and development of incoming business in Croatia and Slovenia. With this visionary strategy for development of coach tours and city breaks in the neighboring countries – Croatia and Slovenia - attractive products were developed.In the same year, Fortuna Travel and Pegasus Incoming Vienna formed a joint venture and Fortuna Travel started its first exhibitions in the most renowned European Travel Fairs(such as Milan, or London). Later, Fortuna Travel continued with its vigorous promotion independently and until this day remains to be a leader and the only Croatian Incoming TO with its own stand in many major international travel fairs(WTM, ITB, BIT and etc.).

Mr. and Mrs. Fortuna decided to further develop the company’s presence in the local tour operator market. One of the first steps included the development and implementation of strong promotional campaigns in the Croatian market, which led to the rebranding of the company as Fortuna Travel. With these strategic decisions, the first steps were to make the company as the most successful outgoing T O in the local market.The company was the first to organize and operate Greek destinations(after the war in Croatia) with great success to follow for many years. Fortuna Travel became a specialist for city breaks and coach tours in Austria, Italy, France, Spain and other European destinations.

Mr. Ivan Fortuna took the leadership of the company and started working on the company’s first activities in the Croatian market.

Fortuna&Fortuna Company was established by Fortuna family as a small private enterprise providing tourist services.small private enterprise providing tourist services.