US-based Apple Leisure Group has acquired America, Mexico and Caribbean tour operator Funway Holidays International.
The deal, revealed today, was completed in early September.
ALG is the leading North American travel, hospitality and leisure management group boasting a full suite of brands in tour operations and travel distribution – and associated technology business Trisept Solutions.
ALG’s market-leading distribution brands include Apple Vacations, Funjet Vacations, Travel Impressions, Southwest Airlines Vacations, United Vacations and numerous others.
It AMResorts, is one of the fastest growing all-inclusive luxury brand management companies with brands including Zoëtry Wellness & Spas Resorts, Secrets Resorts & Spas, Dreams Resorts & Spas, Breathless Resorts & Spas and others through 55 properties across Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and soon Spain; as well as Amstar DMC, the leading destination management company supporting the locations.
Now Funway Holidays joins these brands within ALG in a complementary role, a companion company to the existing Travel Impressions International tour operation headquartered in London.
Melissa Tilling, managing director of Funway, and Carla van der Giesen, vice president of Travel Impressions International, will both report to Scott Wiseman, president of Travel Impressions.