Ukrainian tour operator Join UP! launched on the Romanian market, with its own flights

Join UP! is an Ukrainian tour-operating agency entering the Romanian market. Sales will begin in mid-autumn, with the first operations scheduled for the summer season of 2023. The agency will operate its own flights with departures from Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara and Iași.

Currently, Join UP! Romania is in the process of finalizing negotiations for more than 160 exclusive contracts with popular hotels and hotel chains, offering more than 1600 hotels for reservations.”Entering the Romanian market is an important step for the continuation of our global expansion. We are excited about the opportunities offered by the tourism market in Romania and we want to present our proposals to the local professional community and all the inhabitants of the country“, says Oleksandr Alba, co-founder of Join UP!TM and SkyUp Airlines.

“For more than 12 years, we have been successfully offering opportunities to travel. Currently, we are present on the markets of Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and soon we will open offices in other European countries. Our portfolio includes a wide range of operations, both options accessible to any budget and some exclusive ones. In all these years we have organized holidays for more than 5.5 million tourists, satisfying the most diverse expectations”, added Oleksandr Alba.

The company has already appointed Marius Surdu as CEO of Join UP! Romania. Marius Surdu has over 16 years of experience in the local tourism industry. Previously, he worked at DERTOUR Romania, Fibula Air Travel, TUI Travel Center Romania.

“We are starting a new chapter on the Romanian market. Join UP! comes to market with more than just new destinations and hotels. Now the local market can benefit from the synergy between a tour operator and an air carrier, which will certainly change for the better the situation of charter flights, so discussed in the professional community”, says Marius Surdu, CEO of Join UP! TM Romania.

,,On other markets, the rates Join UP! they reach 40-45% of agency sales. We will work hard to achieve the same or even greater results in Romania.”

In 2023, the tour operator also plans to enter the markets of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.

In Romania, the Join UP! ^TM offer will first focus on the fall-winter destinations:

• Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
• Antalya, Turkey
• Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  
• Tenerife, Spain

Most flights will be operated by SkyUp Airlines, which has 12 Boeing 737 aircraft with an average age of 14 years. Flights for Join UP! to Dubai (EAU) will be operated by FlyDubai.