30% higher turnover for Marshal

Marshal Turism travel agency is to post approximately $15 million turnover this year, some 30% more than in 2001, Daniel Antonescu, company chairman says. It logged $11.3 million turnover last year. The main reason for growth is the lifting of visas for the European Union states, given that most of Marshal’s clients are business people travelling abroad, according to Antonescu. “Even though the foreign destination in highest demand was Turkey, the European countries were also popular this year, because they attracted more Romanian tourists, after the visas were lifted,” the Marshal chairman specified. The company was established by the current state secretary within the Culture Ministry, Ion Antonescu. The agency’s profit followed the same upward trend, so that Marshal will log approximately $400,000 in profit, compared with $300,000 last year. ZF