WHAT WE SEE

We believe that vacations should be tailor-made, by local hosts.

And local host platforms offer the widest selection of destinations and local tour operators. We focus our investments on Custom Trip and Specialty Platforms, and related travel technology companies and local tour operators.

Some 50 local host platforms serve the multi-day tour sector across three main categories.

Package Tour Platforms - aggregate and distribution scheduled/fixed multi-days tours

Custom Trip Platforms - connect travelers with local operators to organize a custom itinerary

Specialty Platforms - offer trips from operators around a specific themes or type of travel

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Local host platforms combined reach <5% of the market.

Most local host platforms have overfit their growth strategies to existing playbooks. As a result, on average these platforms offer <100 destinations and no platform is actively present in >5 source markets.

By applying true network effects, we see huge opportunities for consolidation and growth.

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WHAT WE SEE

We see an industry on the precipice of major changes.

‘Overall, we believe it is possible to look at how flights and accommodations were transformed in the wake of their digital revolutions in the early 2000s as a road map for the Multi-Day Tours industry.

’Skift, October ‘21

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WHAT WE DO

Our core activities are investment and growth

We’re set to act as both a holding and management company.

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We source investments through constant engagement with local host platforms in destinations worldwide.

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We contribute capital for recapitalizations and/or ownership transitions in exchange for equity positions.

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Post investment we work closely with owners and management teams to unlock growth by focusing on key value drivers.

OUR TEAM

We are pioneers in online travel, experts in finance.

We know how to evaluate targets and select the right investments. We offer unique perspectives to unlock growth.

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Eddie Lubbers

FOUNDER / MANAGING PARTNER

Eddie is the founder of local tour operators in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Caribbean-wide. As part of the start-up teams at Booking.com, Hotels.com and Lastminute.com he was responsible for global and regional hotel supply.

Jorrit Kooi

PARTNER

Jorrit is the founder of a local host platform for East Africa, where he pioneered the safari-sharing model. While working in senior positions at Deloitte and ING Bank he was involved with >50 corporate finance transactions with a combined >$1.5B deal value.
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Christian van Paridon

PARTNER

Christian has extensive, hands-on, experience in supporting start-ups, scale-ups and large corporations with innovative growth strategies. He previously worked as a senior consultant with Deloitte and as corporate lawyer with Loyens & Loeff.
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& associates and advisors in Operations, Marketing, IT, Legal

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