MCLEAN, Va. & MELBOURNE, Australia--()--CIBT, the global travel visa and passport services company, announced its acquisition of leading Australian visa services provider, Visalink Systems Pty Ltd. This acquisition is an important milestone in CIBT’s strategy to provide visa and other travel document services globally. With the addition of Visalink and its offices in Melbourne and Canberra, CIBT now operates more than 30 offices in ten countries; Belgium, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA and now Australia. Last year CIBT helped nearly one million travellers obtain the documents required for their international travel.
“Our expansion into Australia provides significant benefits to our global customers. Multi-national clients will experience the advantages of being serviced by one global network for all their travel document needs,” said John Donoghue, President and CEO of CIBT. “CIBT is now able to provide superior service for travel management companies, cruise lines and tour operators, the retail travel industry, corporations and individuals in Australia.”
“Combining CIBT’s expertise with Visalink’s leading position in the Australian market will ensure a fast and easy process to any Australian resident who may need a travel visa,” said Simon Derbyshire, Managing Director for Visalink. “We remain committed to providing our existing customers in Australia with rapid, simple and secure service.” Visalink has been serving the leading global travel management companies, many retail travel agencies, and the corporate market, as well as many individual travellers in the Australian market since 1975.
CIBT, with a large presence in North America and Western Europe, is expanding aggressively in the Asia-Pacific region. Nicolas Derbyshire has been appointed as the Vice President for Business Development in the Asia-Pacific region and will spearhead the company’s future expansion plans. “The Asia/Pacific region will benefit greatly from the introduction of the CIBT visa processing platform and professional visa services. The Asian travel industry, global corporations and travelers alike have been underserviced when it comes to visa facilitation and our service offering will provide a real benefit to companies and individuals,” said Nicolas Derbyshire.
About CIBT
With more than 50 years of experience, CIBT has become the leader in the travel documents industry. CIBT provides services through a network of over 30 offices in 10 countries in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions, which makes it the largest international travel visas and passports company in the world. CIBT provides travel-related services to 75% of the Fortune 500 companies as well as the leading travel consortia, tour operators, humanitarian organizations, and cruise line clients operating globally. Using CIBT, they will be able to offer their customers a customized range of services from business and tourist visa applications to over 200 destinations, to passports and document legalizations and more. For additional information visit www.cibt.com.
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