The Austrian travel company Verkehrsbüro Group wants to reduce location costs by 50 percent in view of the consequences of the corona pandemic. Specifically, one of the goals is to reduce the office space at the company headquarters by around 60 percent, thereby saving around 1,5 million euros per year.

In an interview with Trend magazine, company boss Martin Winkler said that the coronavirus pandemic meant that the company he headed had to record a drop in sales from 615 million euros to 230 million euros. The group of companies includes the Ruefa travel agencies, Austria Trend Hotels and Eurotours.

In the area of ​​city tourism, Winkler does not expect a recovery to the level of 2024 until 2019. In congress tourism, he sees the future in hybrid events, for which new technologies are to be made available as part of a digitization offensive.

Winkler associates high expectations with the Green Pass: "I am convinced that the Green Pass will be the way to make international travel possible again."