Ambotis Holidays
Ambotis Holidays (Ambotis Tours till 2015) is a tour operator working on the Russian market since 1996. The company is a part of a Greek Holding Ambotis Group which offer services in hotel business, incoming, etc. Recently, Ambotis Holidays has central office in Moscow, as well as offices in Saint-Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan, Samara, and Ulyanovsk. Previously, Ambotis Holidays was knows as tour operator for Greece, now it works on many destinations, like Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Maldives, Sri-Lanka, Tanzania, UAE, Vietnam, Mexico, etc. /information is translated from the official web site of the tour operator/.
Established in Year: 1996
Size of the company: about 47 employees
Expert Comment: Founded by the Greek DMC Ambotis Tours and Services, as the sales point mostly for individual and VIP clients generally for Greek Halkidiki, till 2014, Ambotis Holidays worked more as travel agency than a tour operator. When in summer 2014 the Ambotis in Greece suddenly lost all major Russian tour operators after their bankruptcy (Labirint, South Cross, Versa, Neva, Solvex), they decided to grow up their own operator in Russia instead of seeking for other partners and hired Konstantin Gorin, the previous director of commerce of Labirint with more than 15-year experience of operating on different mass tourism destinations.
Already, in winter season 2014-2015, Ambotis Holidays started operation on Sri-Lanka and Arabic Emirates as new destinations with blocks of seats. In 2015, Ambotis Holidays added more destinations, mostly exotic and FIT. So, in two years they have expanded from one (Greece) to 16 destinations. Almost on all destinations, they try to keep average rates, without any damping. The main destination is still Greece, where they offer both exclusive hotels mostly on Halkidiki (including their own, Elinotel and Xenios) and other popular hotels. Ambotis Holidays has good partnership with Utair Airlines, which guarantees them good rates for charter flights, but also cooperates with many regular airlines. In 2016, they started their own project of club animation, Elephant Holiday Clubs, a copy of popular Club SALUT! created by Labirint.
In the last two years, their marketing is very active, but not aggressive - instead of spending big money for PR and media advertisement, they prefer to invest in travel agency relationship, organising sales calls, seminars and webinars. Commission policy is rather standard for the market. Ambotis has close cooperation with sletat.ru
Recently, Ambotis Holidays is considered as middle-size tour operator on the Russian market. About 50% of all employees came from bankrupted Labirint, especially for top positions, like in Transportation, Sales, and Analytics Departments.
DESTINATIONS AND TOUR TYPES
Destinations: Greece, Cyprus, Tanzania, Sri-Lanka, Indonesia, Maldives, UAE, Vietnam, India, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Thailand, Mexico, China, Brazil, Malaysia
Tour Types: Beach Holidays,City Break, Luxury Travel, Religious Tourism, Safari Holidays
LEGAL INFO Subscription Plans
Tour operator Ambotis Holidays has two registered legal entities, LLC TK Ambotis Tours Services and LLC Ambotis TAS. Below we publish information about both companies.
1) LLC TK Ambotis Tours Services Registered on: 10.04.2012 Primer Registry Number in Russia (ORGN): 1127746263303
Legal Address: 29 Schepkina St., Moscow
Registered Capital: 61 000 roubles
Federal Registry Number as Tour Operator: МТ3-014155 of 16.02.2015
Financial Guarantee in Amount of: 30 000 000 roubles
Organisation who gave financial guarantee: ERV Tourist Insurance (A+)
Period of Financial Insurance: 06.06.2016-05.06.2017
General Director: Stamatov Vitaly Andreevich
Contact Details of General Director: ok@ambotis.com
Owner(s): Atanasova Marianna Todorovna
Registered Trademarks: no
2) LLC Ambotis TAS
Registered on: 29.07.2014
Primer Registry Number in Russia (ORGN): 1147847266753
Legal Address: 4A Efimova St, Saint-Petersburg
Registered Capital: 10 000 roubles
Federal Registry Number as Tour Operator: МТ3-017554 of 25.07.2016
Financial Guarantee in Amount of: 30 000 000 roubles
Organisation who gave financial guarantee: ERV Tourist Insurance (A+)
Period of Financial Insurance: 01.09.2016-31.08.2017
General Director: Stamatov Vitaly Andreevich
Contact Details of General Director: ok@ambotis.com
Owner(s): Stamatov Vitaly Andreevich
Registered Trademarks: no
FINANCIAL INFO Subscription Plans
LLC Ambotis Tours Services, Financial Statement (roubles)
2014 | 2015 | |
carrying value | 95 000 | 2 006 000 |
shareholders’ fund | 61 000 | 61 000 |
accounts due to liabilities | 7 366 000 | 1 031 000 |
accounts due to receivable | 7 348 000 | 1 031 000 |
revenue | 2 308 000 | 7 570 000 |
net profit | 3 951 000 | 14 072 000 |
LLC Ambotis TAS, Financial Statement (roubles)
2014 | 2015 | |
carrying value | 3 000 | 721 000 |
shareholders’ fund | 31 000 | 840 000 |
accounts due to liabilities | 49 000 | 112 000 |
accounts due to receivable | 77 000 | 232 000 |
revenue | 435 000 | 3 892 000 |
net profit | 21 000 | 809 000 |
Court Cases
Arbitration (Commercial) Court of Moscow decision on the case number A40-83728 / 14 dated 31.07.2014 of the year, Ambotis Tours Service is collected in favor of "Vorkl" 9 278 rubles - the debts for unpaid services for the promotion of the tourist product.
BUSINESS INFO Subscription Plans
Branch Offices in Cities: 5 offices in Saint-Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan, Samara, Ulyanovsk
Accreditation in the Consulates: Greece, India, Bulgaria
Partnership with Air Companies: Utair, Aegean Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Vietnam Airlines
Partnership with DMC: Greece - Ambotis Tours and Services, Bulgaria - Solvex, Sri-Lanka - Exotic Holidays, UAE - Al Khalidian, Indonesia - Pegasus Indonesia Travel, Mexico - Arminas Travel
Commission Policy for Travel Agents:
Moscow, Saint-Petersburg | Regions of Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Ryazan, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Tver, Ulyanovsk, Yaroslavl, Krasnodar, Savropol, Tatarstan | Other regions | |
10,0 % | 1 - 15 tourists | 1 - 15 tourists | 1 - 10 tourists |
11,0 % | 16 - 36 tourists | 16 - 30 tourists | 11 - 20 tourists |
12,0 % | 36 - 100 tourists | 31 - 50 tourists | 21 - 30 tourists |
13,0 % | more than 100 tourists | more than 50 tourists | more than 30 tourists |
• travel agents can get free participation in a familiarisation trip if they book certain amount of tourists for this destination.
• travel agents can get special commission for booking of their own holidays up to 17%, free individual transfer, room upgrade, and free/discounted excursions (Greece only)
Number of Retailers (Travel Agents): 3 500 working travel gents (according to tour operator’s estimation), among them about 700 actively working agencies in Moscow and about 300 actively working agents in regions of Russia (listed as their retailers on the web site)
Online-Booking: Ambotis Holidays uses SAMO-soft (one of Russian soft-program for tourism industry, used by many tour operators). Online system has versions both for travel agents and direct customers (payment by card).
CONTACT INFO Subscription Plans
Web site: www.ambotis.ru www.ambotis.com
Telephone: + 7(495) 649 8599
E-mail: sales@ambotis.com
Address: 29 Shchepkina St., Moscow
Contact Information: asia@ambotis.com (for India, Sri-Lanka, Tanzania, UAE, Indonesia), siam@ambotis.com (for Thailand), srilanka@ambotis.com (for Sri-Lanka), bulgaria@ambotis.com (for Bulgaria), latina@ambotis.com (for Brazilia)
Employees:
• Konstantin Gorin, Commercial Director, konstantin.gorin@ambotis.com
• Roman Zhuravlev, Head of Avia Department, avia@ambotis.com
• Marina Kazantseva, Destination Manager for Bulgaria, India, Thailand, marina.kazantseva@ambotis.com,
• Anna Rakitina, Destination Manager for UAE, anna.rakitina@ambotis.com
• Anna Cherepova, Destination Manager for Asia and Africa, anna.cherepova@ambotis.com
OTHER Subscription Plans
Except these legal entities, there are several travel agencies in Russia whose company name is Ambotis:
LLC Ambotis Tours, Voronezh - closed in March 2014 LLC Ambotis Tours Services, Moscow - closed in April 2011 LLC Ambotis, Samara - closed in October 2014 LLC Ambotis Tours Services, Moscow - closed in March 2014 LLC Ambotis, Ulyanovsk - works since December 2010 till now LLC Ambotis-Tour, Vladimir - works since April 2014 till now LLC Ambotis Tours, Samara - works since May 2014 till now ZAO Ambotis Tours, Moscow - works since 2002 till now