Travel You link to Excite

THE owners of the collapsed Excite Holidays have also been revealed as the directors of another travel business currently operating in Australia.

TravelYou.com was launched in Jul 2019, and has been promoting itself with a media kit describing the venture as a “global travel publication, booking platform and mobile application built to help new age travellers discover the world with ease”.

The media kit highlights Excite MD Nicholas Stavropoulos as co-founder, describing him as an “entrepreneur, a mentor, a visionary, analyst, strategist, psychologist and test pilot”.

Investigations undertaken by

TD confirm that the Travel You trademark, registered in Aug 2018, is owned by a Singaporebased company called Travel you. com Pte Ltd which operates from the same registered address as Excite Holidays Pte Ltd, the entity which is listed on the now defunct Excite Holidays website.

Corporate records in Singapore indicate that Travelyou.com Pte Ltd has the same three directors as Excite Holidays Pte Limited: George Papaioannou and Nicholas Stavropoulos, both based in Vaucluse, NSW; plus Singapore citizen Ha Ling-Ling.

Travelyou.com was 100% owned by Excite Holidays Pte Ltd until late Oct 2019, when the shares were transferred to a NZ entity called Illion Trustees Limited.

The Travel You team includes several former Excite staff, but most are believed to have departed in recent days.

Travel You has been targeting tourist boards and suppliers for co-op advertising funds, and just before Christmas undertook a joint “activation” with Visit-Britain in Sydney’s Pitt Street mall.

MEANWHILE, the Administrators of Excite Holidays have provided a new guide for affected travel agents - details on page two.

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