About us

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The Company

Invia is THE holiday expert for your most beautiful time and the largest pan-European OTA. With us, customers get perfectly tailored offers: trips from well-known tour operators, flights from more than 550 airlines, and rooms in more than 200,000 hotels worldwide. All of this is available at the best possible price – flexible, fast, and competent. That’s what we mean by efficiency.

Diversity is particularly important when it comes to the product range: whether it’s a package tour or a cruise, a holiday home or a club holiday, culture or wellness – the breadth of our offering is a key success factor for us.

The advantage for the customer is obvious: transparency through comparability – in terms of price and range. The customer can choose the right offer for them or have it put together by our competent service staff.

2002

Foundation of Invia in Czech Republic

2002

2004

Unister founded with launch of „ab in den Urlaub“ as package OTA

2004

2006

Invia Expansion into Slovakia, Hungary and Poland

2006

2011

Acquisition of Travelplanet.pl in Poland

2011

2016

Rockaway Capital invested into Invia CEE

2016

2017

Rockaway Capital invested into selected travel assets of Unister (from insolvency administrator in 02/2017)

2017

2020

Total shutdown of travel industry caused by covid-19 pandemic

2020

2021

Introducing of Group functions as a lever for internal efficiency and operating excellence

2021

2022

Full recovery from pandemic impact and introduction of new platform across multiple entities

2022

The management

Group Management

Sergej Manthey

CFO of Invia Group

Former M&A Director at Invia and interim CFO of Bringmeister
Holds master‘s diploma in Management and Finance

Mark Jarus

COO of Invia Group

Consulting background from BCG
Master degree from Erasmus University Rotterdam

Dr. Alexander Sandow

CPO of Invia Group

Strong scientific, e-commerce and product managment background
Phd from University Innsbruck

Piotr Zolnierek

CTO of Invia Group

Founder and managing director of Anixe with deep knowledge of travel industry and technology

Regional Management

Ralph Michaelsen

CEO of Invia Travel Germany / Group CCO

Responsible for operational business, service centres and purchasing

Benedikt Müller

CFO of Invia Group Germany

Started working with Unister shortly after graduation
Holds master’s diploma from Leipzig Grad. School of Mgmt.

Hans-Peter Buniat

CEO of Invia Flights

Previously CTO at Invia with 15 years of industry experience
Holds diploma in computer science from Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig

Jan Foret

CEO of Invia.cz

Former General Manager of Wolt & Transaction specialist by KPMG

Radoslaw Damasiewicz

CEO of Travelplanet.pl

Previous E-Commerce Manager at Travelplanet.pl

Jozef Zakar

CEO of Invia.sk and Invia.hu in Hungary

International experience in travel agencies
Holds an Engineering degree

Martin Höfler

CFO of CEE (cz, pl, sk, hu)

Former CFO in international real estate industry with audit experience at EY
Master Degree from Prague University of Economics and Business

Numbers and figures

Bookings

Pax

Employees (avg/year)

Web Sessions

Meanwhile, the group has over 1,200 employees in five countries, with a total of 16 offices located in Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary. Our employees are spread across the globe, including locations such as Albania, France, India, Cuba, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, and Tunisia.

We have reached approximately 2 million customers through our portals such as fluege.de, ab-in-den-urlaub.de, invia.cz and travelplanet.pl.

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