Convenient Travel: Organization Background
In 1999 in the state of Utah, Convenient Travel was incorporated. Convenient Travel is an electronic commerce company that conducts business with its customers primarily on the Internet. Convenient Travel is an organization that focuses on specific travel markets in Mexico and the Caribbean. The organization has maintained constant financial growth since its foundation in 1999, except in 2001. Its current year growth has surpassed over the prior year and the revenue growth rate has also excelled over the prior year. Convenient Travel is a small organization with seven employees, eight shareholders who hold ownership and five shareholders who serve on the board of directors. The company promotes that almost all employees participate in a profit sharing plan. In addition, the organizations annual revenues are in the millions and company profitability and productivity are elevated. Convenient Travel offers mainly hotel booking services to Mexico and the Caribbean to its customers. Specifically, they sell hotel booking arrangements, transportation transfers and customized tours to travelers from the United States, Europe and Asia (Pedersen & Paper, 2007).
General Business
Convenient Travel describes themselves as a pure play electronic commerce travel company. A pure play organization means that they conduct all of their business on the Internet. The organization offers several Web sites to travel locations in Mexico and the Caribbean and then they book the hotel reservations, airport transfers and transportation services, customized travel packages, and tours and charter services through the Web sites. Convenient Travels main objective is that they are focused on a mark ...