2021 sales: $252.1 million
Previous ranking: 27
Employees: 104
11538 San Vicente Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Phone: (310) 575-5540
Website Executives
CHAIRMAN/FOUNDER: Wido L. Schaefer
PRESIDENT/CEO: Osvaldo A. Ramos
EVP/COO: Brian Crawford
SVP, CORPORATE SALES: Jim Wright
SVP, LEISURE SALES & MARKETING: Dan Ilves
SVP, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Trudy Flores
SVP, ORANGE COUNTY: Doris Reiss
Company facts
* Employee-owned travel agency providing vacation planning, corporate travel management and meetings management.
* Works with 171 independent contractors.
* 2021 sales split of 65% business travel, 33% leisure and 2% other.
2021 developments
* After reducing staff and implementing pay cuts in 2020, employees are back to pre-pandemic compensation levels.
* Paycheck Protection Program loans have been forgiven.
Looking ahead
* ARC sales in March reached almost 100% of 2019 sales, therefore TravelStore is confident that the company will be in a "very good position" in the third and fourth quarters, possibly even the second quarter.
* In the process of rehiring on the corporate side of the operation.