FINANGEST and FINANTUR currently provide our business consulting services. Finangest was founded in 1992 when two of its current associates, Jaume Duran and Armand Corrales, decided to bring together their expertise as consultants in the fiscal, accounting and financial sectors. Finangest started off with barely 20 clients. Only a few months later it began to offer labor consulting services after recruiting Cristina Portillo, a lawyer specialized in labor law who eventually became a partner of our firm. Following her recruitment and those of other professionals, within a few years we achieved business growth and significant consolidation of our client portfolio. Three years later Finangest moved office after buying its current premises, which enabled us to improve the work space conditions and functionality. Although Finangest carries out the typical advisory tasks related to the tax, accounting, commercial, labor and financial sectors and caters for a variety of clients, it has a distinguishing feature that makes it stand out form the rest of advisory services. We specialized in the complex travel sector, based on the experience of our partner Jaime Duran with travel agencies (several of which hired him as a consultant in 1987). Our collaboration with IATA auditing experts began in 1992, which enabled us to make significant progress in this sector. Meanwhile, the Catalan association of travel agents UCAE was born, who appointed us as their advisers. This long-standing collaboration has yielded mutual benefits. In 1996, along with UCAE, we convened the first conference of taxation for travel agents and, afterwards, we organized comprehensive seminars that lay the foundations for our Madrid office, as many of our current clients first came to us following these events. In those years Finangest already served different types and sizes of companies as well as individual entrepreneurs, all of which required auditing services due to their business size. In addition to our being specialized in the sector of travel agencies, we expanded and diversified our clients’ portfolio in other sectors. At the turn of the present century, Finangest can introduce itself as a highly reputed firm in the sector of travel agencies and probably as one of the advisory firms counting on the largest number of clients throughout Spain in its portfolio. Our continued co-operation with UCAVE enabled us to take part in the meetings held with IATA to modify the requirements for the assessment of financial ratios, or in the training sessions for affiliates, among others. Towards the middle of the year 2002 we decided to expand our premises in Madrid and joined forces with new partners. We chose Raul Guijarro, also an expert in the travel business sector with over 10 years’ experience and a consolidated portfolio of travel agencies. This enabled us to constitute Finantur, a trade name that speaks for itself with regard to its specialization, although as in the case of Finangest not limiting itself to the travel sector but aiming at serving clients from all sectors of business. We must also highlight our ongoing co-operation with TRAVELLOP, a software company that developed the management program IBERSYSTEM for travel agencies.