After 25 years laid the travel company Lillleput Traveling down.
The company continues as planned out season, but from 2017 will Lilleput as charter company be history.
Entrepreneur and “Mr. Lilleput “personal, Frode Schiøtz public ground this today in the closed Facebook group Lilleput Reiser friends.
– As speculation began to go, I thought it was right that those who are closest to us to know it first says Frode Schiøtz in a comment to VG.
GIVES HIMSELF: General Manager Lilleput Reiser, Frode Schiøtz, lays down the company. Photo: Private
It is a very personal and emotional letter commander of Lilleput have now written to their friends in “Lilleput family.”
I soon go to my 80′ende years and enough is enough. I think I’ve got plenty of challenges to deal with. I am still lucky that we can say that the joy of my job has so many, many times surpassed problems. I have a humble compared to what I’ve done and what I do.
The farewell feels sad really. And sad. This makes it well when one has held for so long, and had so much love for something, he writes
Schiøtz started its first travel company Gulliver, 38 years ago. Later Lilleput the new “baby” in 1991.
– It was then that Saddam Hussein had entered Kuwait and UD warned against traveling the world in general. Norwegians were afraid to fly from Oslo to Bergen. At the time I went against the stream and started Lilleput of Chios, he says to VG. .
Frode Schiøtz got success with his small company that concentrated on small Greek destinations bit off the beaten track.
Over the years, he calculates that around 25,000 Norwegians have traveled with Lilleput . Most of them have traveled with the company again and again.
Renewals
MAMMA MIA TOURS: Lilleput-guests of Skiathos can participate in guided tours to places where Mamma Mia movie is recorded.
Photo: Terje Bringedal VG
– Sometime in 2012, I sat on the plane home from Pelloponnes and looked through the stack of reply forms as guest had filled after the holidays. One of the questions was whether they had been at the destination before. All answered yes.
I looked around the plane and noticed that all the passengers were aged 65 plus. That was when I decided that we needed renovation, so the following year we started with Skiathos. It was a very proper focus, he said.
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In letters to Lilleput Reiser friends thank him now all that has come back year after year.
Shortly after the letter was published on Facebook, began thanksgiving from customers pouring in. Comments box is already full of “This was incredibly sad,” “thanks for lovely walks” and “Yamas to you and Lilleput” One writes: “It is all wrong to press like, because I do not. (…) Good luck, Frode, “
Refugee Crisis
Frode Shiøtz writes in the letter to Lilleput Reiser friends that he through the years has faced much adversity. But he has always seen the light in the tunnel.
It’s been tough. Very tough. And a lot of beating, I have, over the years.
As recently as last year pulled it properly to. Greece “without ATM,” “lack of food on destinations,” Drachma. Unrest. You name it. Suddenly rose euro to unimagined heights which led to soaring costs for us. Penga flew out. Suddenly we realized that refugees were not a momentary phenomenon.
Frode Shiøtz has not hidden the fact that many customers have opted out destination where there has been a possibility that they were meeting on refugees in the holiday. Lesbos and Chios was almost empty of tourists last year.
LESVOS: Many of yurist is absent from the island which last year took in the hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Photo: Chryssa Panoussiadou VG
In the farewell letter commends his customers still has continued to travel Lesvos and Chios and thus have supported local homeowners, taverns and shops.
He has all the time even shown a personal commitment to the locals on the islands Lilleput had as destinations.
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All difficulties notwithstanding, Lilleput gained 1.7 million. Last year, after many difficult, hard years. I had reason to see the light in the tunnel, and attacked another year, he writes .
But the problems have accumulated. This year, a comprehensive data problem for the company in addition led to great loss of orders.
Now, he hopes only that Lilleput will get a worthy conclusion.
Lilleput Reiser continues out season in 2016 and now delivers I: I dream of running the fall season with full fly. We see before us a fall season that looks lagelig good, and so I hope that you, just you, really take the time to take your last real Lilleput ride writes Frode Schiøtz letter to Lilleput Reiser friends on Facebook .
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