Joel Ostrov, President, Canada East Region
Joel Ostrov is President of Vision Travel (Quebec East), a Direct Travel company, and Canada largest Travel Management Company. A founder of Partner In Travel, a Montreal based travel agency, Joel opened his doors in 1977 after graduating from McGill University with a Bachelor Degree in Economics. Joel grew the company thru the 80s and 90s, bringing the agency to the forefront of Quebec’s corporate travel scene. In 2000, it was the strategic decision to merge Partners In Travel with two other well respected agencies in Montreal, Future Travel and Options Voyages to create the Vision 2000 Travel Group (Quebec) that set the stage for the company’s impressive growth since its creation. Simultaneous to the merger in Quebec, Brian Robertson merged his Toronto agency Rogers Travel with Roos Travel, becoming Vision Travel’s COO. Suddenly Vision Travel was a $150 million per year Travel Management Company with offices in Canada’s two largest cities. Over the course of the next 15 years, Joel, Brian and the team grew Vision 2000 into Canada’s largest independently owned TMC, rebranding to become Vision Travel Solutions in the fall of 2014, and achieving an impressive $600 million sales volume by year end 2015 with 16 offices from Montreal to Victoria. Today Joel’s role consists of leading the day to day operations of the Montreal headquarters where over 250 of Vision’s team members are located, as well as managing Vision’s business relationship with the company’s most important strategic supplier, Air Canada. While continuing to work with Brian in building Vision’s presence in Canada, Joel is looking forward to working closely with Direct Travel’s three U.S. Regional Presidents in growing the company into a global powerhouse.
