Javier Garcia del Valle  - Happy Tour
Channel: startevo
Date: 2012-09-30

I am Spanish. 45 years. I was born in Malaga, on the Mediteranean Coast. 
All my life i was influenced by my fathers's job (also in travel industry). At some point I decided to do the same thing. After finishing my university studies, I started to work at my father's company. 
In 2000, on January 3rd, I started with an American company, focused on bringing Americans 50+ years old in Europe. For this jobs I started to go to Munich -- I stayed there 3 months. I was comuting every 2 days in US. 
On 9/11, my company suffered a lot, because the American citizens did not travel to Europe anymore. From 80,000 passangers a year we moved to 8,000 passangers a year. Everything we have build became too big. We started cutting jobs. I had to fire 50 people in one day. And in one day I was fired also.[...]
I am proud to say that I still have a fantastic relationship with them (my former empoyers). But business is business and companies must make money. I would have done exactly the same.
In that moment I said -- I have a wife and 3 kids (now I have 4) -- I need to do something, to feed them. I started an online reservation platform, focused only on Malaga and Costa del Sol.[...]
I wanted to have a specialized website, so the others (competitors) can only dream of. I sold the company 3 years after. It worked very well.