CHAPTER 8. OPENING DATE TARGET

Back from Easter holidays, and back to work. Acording to the Shopping Center contract conditions, the limit date to opening is June 30th , but I expect to be open before that date. It depends basically in how much time could need the Xunta Tourism Department to approve the file and finish all the paperwork. Theoretically, they say that the whole process usualy takes 45 days, so thinking in a two months gap would be realistic. Getting all the documents ready and registered at the Xunta Office in April’s first week, and taking into account that there are two long weekends in May, the first estimated target date should be June 10th.

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CHAPTER 7. IT'S OFFICIAL

Finally, the contract has been signed up. A littler later than I expected, but it’s just done. In a few days, it will start the next phase. It includes final negociation and signing of the contract with the tour operator, and collecting all the documents needed to get the tourism agency license.
One of the main things I have to face next is the agency staff selection process. After the Easter holidays, I will put an advertisement in local paper (Faro de Vigo) asking for applicants.
As an excepcion, and I also think as an advantage to people who read this blog and should be interested in apply for the job, here is an advance:

The agency will be placed in Vigo (Plaza Elíptica Shopping Centre), and in order to cover all the timetable, I will need two people:

PROFILE ONE

Tourism Graduate
Experience in travel agency (one year should be enough)
Full time contract – 40 hours a week (at first, for one year; after that, it should be permanent)

PROFILE TWO

Tourism student
Part time contract - 20 hours a week (same conditions)

Notice that the agency will be placed in a shopping centre, so usually the working week is from monday to saturday. In adition, there are 8 sunday’s opening by year wich will be paid as an extra.

If someone is interested, please, send a mail with your CV, as complete as possible, to:

ontripviaxes@gmail.com

In the e-mail field “Asunto”, indicate “Ref.: BJ”. I will answer all the applicants.

CHAPTER 6. OFFICE, ALMOST DONE

Today I’ve reached an agreement about the renting contract with the shopping centre’s manager. The contract, as all shopping centre contracts I’ve always seen and signed, is really strict for small companies, and deep inside, you have the impression of doing a deal with the devil. Anyway, the contract’s sign next week would mean the end of phase one. I’ll get the office evacuated by the actual tenant in April 15th, and the opening deadline to my office will be June 1st, despite is possible I’ll be opened at the end of May, after the exams. Time enough to arrange the office according to my standard and brand image of the group.
Then phase two, the process to enter the company in the Business Register office, will be ready to begin. In order to do it, I’ve already asked at the Treasury Deppartment for the temporary N.I.F., I’ve deposited the 60.101,21€ required to found a travel agency in the bank, and probably on friday next week I’m going at the notary public to give him the bank certificate and sign the constitution deed. I think the whole procedure should take a month.
Once I’ll get the Register’s certificate, and the rest of documents would been collected, It will start phase three: to process the travel agency commercial activity licence at the Xunta de Galicia. At the same time, I’ll start the employees selection process, to save time. I have to hire two people, one of them full time and another part time. Even though I will talk about it in another “chapter” later.