History and development of Travel Viva AG

2011 Market entry in Poland with the premium brand www.airline-direct.pl as well as acquisition of the Polish online flight portals www.taniebilety.pl, www.a1r.pl, and www.ticketplus.pl
2010 Acquisition of www.tbooker.com and www.e-flights.de.
2010 Initial Public Offering (FSE) February 11 2010.
2009 Acquisition of www.billigflug.de. Launch of English website www.airline-direct.com.
2009 Creation of an integrated group of companies in the sector of internet travel portals through the introduction of www.traveltopia.de, ASNM New Media AG incl. Tripado GmbH*, Aircall/Flight One GmbH* and maxviva Technologies AG* (new shareholders‘ structure immediately after introduction and before subsequent share acquisition by third parties: AERTiCKET AG 50%, Oliver Trompke indirectly 50%).
2008 Intense expansion and optimisation of online marketing and development of an affiliate network. 50 million Euro external sales revenue threshold is broken (external sales revenue = booking revenue primarily imparted to third parties).
2006 Travel Viva takes over the operation of and responsibility for www.billigflug.de.
2005 Foundation of Travel Viva AG as operator and new owner of airline direct (Air Travel Reiseservice GmbH in trust for AERTiCKET AG 25.1% , Oliver Trompke indirect 74.9%).
2003 TÜV certification of airline direct in 2003, as one of the first travel portals.
2002 Outsourcing of flight IBE and foundation of maxviva GmbH (software development and operator of flight IBE).
2002 Development of own flight IBE (Internet Booking Engine) by airline direct, as standard products no longer fulfilled the requirements.
1998 Foundation of airline direct GmbH in Cologne by Oliver Trompke. The website www.airline-direct.de goes live. Focal point is the arrangement of flights through the internet.

* pro rata