It`s been almost 7 months since we first heard of the COVID-19 pandemic which showed one more time that we cannot take our lives for granted, neither our jobs. It was a lesson about how every chain in every industry is connected and we also witnessed the domino effect that managed to “destroy” everything that many entrepreneurs were constantly building in the past years. Managers were put in а very unenviable position, to choose between their employees, to reduce salaries and most of them to close their companies. At the same time, there are companies that overcame this period full of challenges by transforming the core business thanks to the strengths of the team into another business. This is our story. This is how we managed to keep our working places…As an Incoming Tour Operator for the Balkans, Balkan Prime Tours was also hit by this wave called COVID-19. Taking in consideration that the Balkan Region can be mostly visited from March till November, we lost the most precious months which were full of confirmed groups from all over the world for which previously were paid many services including hotels, transports, guides… Becoming aware that under this circumstances, following the recommendations of the World Health Organisation, following the predictions for the tourism in 2020, we did not want to lose more time and we grab the new opportunities that saved us from drowning.
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