The Romanian behind the travel websites bought by Poland's Netmedia

C&D Solutions in Brasov, owner of travel websites TourismGuide.ro and AllSeasons.ro, which sold a 70% stake to Polish-held NetMedia, was set up in 2003 by Daniel Dobrita (now 28), who graduated from the Faculty of Tourism, and was originally intended to promote tourism on Prahova Valley.
“The idea for the business first came up in 2003 out of a desire to promote tourism in the Prahova Valley via the www.tourismguide.ro portal. A year later our company had gained national coverage, promoting lodging facilities and places of touristic interest throughout Romania. Later, in addition to promoting lodging facilities in Romania, we also developed All Seasons travel agency in order to respond more effectively to demands for lodging that came to us via the TourismGuide.ro portal,” Daniel Dobrita told ZF. He added that investments in this business totalled 300-400,000 euros in the company’s seven years in business.
Dobrita said the transaction concluded with NetMedia, a Polish company specialising in electronic commerce, amounted to 160,000 euros, one of the reasons for the sale being the company’s financial situation. The Brasov-based company had stepped into the red last year, after a 4,000-euro profit in 2008, with its revenues down to 650,000 euros from 661,440 euros in 2008.