The RMC Meetup, organized in the new office of BRIL Accountants in Veenendaal, was dedicated to a comparative study that sheds light on the impact of the corona pandemic on the travel sector. Marcel Nijssen presented an analysis of financial parameters and offered a unique comparison between the years 2022 and the last pre-corona year, 2019. Visitors to the RMC-Meetup told TravMagazine that they had listened with interest to the figures and tips presented by Nijssen and his colleagues. Photo – From left to right: Marcel Nijssen, Diederik van de Kolk, Arend van de Geest and T.J. van Apeldoorn. Among other things, Nijssen stated: ‘You see, what corona has done is that there has been a considerable redundancy of staff. As accountants, we thought productivity was too low, or we thought that companies employed too many people. Corona has been a bit of an undesirable means that there has been a considerable outflow of people,’ says Nijssen, who also stated that he still sees travel companies with a conversion rate of less than 30 percent.
‘That means that you make more than 70 percent of your quotations for Piet Snot and there are all very expensive people working on that. That means that your turnover per FTE is relatively low.’ During the afternoon, more insights were offered into how the travel sector has been affected by the corona crisis and the extent to which companies have recovered from this difficult period. Nijssen also discussed important aspects such as profit and loss accounts, but cost control was also highlighted. Special attention was paid to the biggest cost items in the sector: automation and personnel. More in TravMagazine 51. Want to become a member of the Travel Management Club? Click here for more information.
