About us

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

2004

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

2006

Invia Expansion into Slovakia, Hungary and Poland

2011

Acquisition of Travelplanet.pl in Poland

2016

Rockaway Capital invested into Invia CEE

2017

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

2020

Total shutdown of travel industry caused by covid-19 pandemic

2021

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

2022

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

Boris Raoul

Being a pan-European Online Travel Agency, the Invia Group plans to become the leading one-stop-shop package platform for customers.

Accompanying travellers from weekend getaways all the way to their planned multi-stay arrangements we offer various products ranging from the traditional package tour to tailored individual trips.

We bundle years of experience in the package holiday business utilising our knowledge as travel experts to offer our customers the best experience, always with a personal touch.

Further, we want to accompany the travellers throughout their journey offering valuable information on the destination in our App while forming a close relationship with our customers supporting them in all travel affairs 24/7.

Becoming the most customer-centric provider amongst the Online Travel Agencies, we aspire to build a one-on-one relationship with each of our customers.

Boris Raoul
CEO Invia Group

The management

Group Management

Boris Raoul

CEO of Invia Group

  • Formerly, COO of FTI Group, CEO of Unister and BRI Invest
  • Finished Advanced Management Programme at Insead

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

Andreas Berg

CMO of Invia Group

  • Strong marketing / e-commerce background
  • Holds diploma from Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences

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

Shareholder

Jaroslaw Czernek

Chairman, Rockaway Invest. Partner

  • Responsible for travel firms at Rockaway
  • Qualified attorney in New York, England and Wales

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.deab-in-den-urlaub.deinvia.cz and travelplanet.pl.

Our brands

Ab-In-Den-Urlaub.de
Fluege.de
Travelplanet.pl