Tourist information services
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Filed accounts
NACE 79901 · financial year 2025 · 142 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 53.8% | 54.6% | 54.2% | 48.2% | 51.9% | 50.6% |
| Median net result | €2,970 | €4,955 | €6,503 | €2,452 | €5,566 | €7,413 |
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Spread across the country
by region and province · 410 of 1,855 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Wallonia
- Flanders
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 79 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 79901 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Visit.brusselsBrussels 154 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 VISITWalloniaBrussels 66.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 Association pour la Gestion et l'Exploitation touristiques et sportives des Voies d'Eau du HainautMons 43.1 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 TOERISME OOSTENDEOstend 42.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 Toerisme Oost-VlaanderenGhent 34.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 38 companies- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 10
- 329 Socio-cultural sector 9
- 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 5
- 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 5
- 302 Hotels and catering 4
- 140.02 Taxis 2
- 333 Tourist attractions 2
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
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- 140 Transport and logistics 1
- 144 Agriculture 1
- 211 Oil industry and trade 1
- 227 Audiovisual sector 1
- 304 Performing arts 1
- 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 79: Travel agencies
Related activities
1 other activity| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travel agency, tour operator and other reservation service and related activities79909 | 16 | 7 | 0 | - |
Bankruptcies per year in division 79
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 17 | 22 | 28 | 20 | 16 | 25 | 20 | 26 | 21 | 17 | 17 | 13 |
| Jobs lost | 113 | 24 | 53 | 65 | 595 | 72 | 166 | 96 | 56 | 22 | 35 | 17 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 79
312 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €56,500 | €49,000 to €66,300 | 231 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €60,300 | €52,000 to €72,700 | 62 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
10 of the 1,666 companies in NACE division 79 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (3), United Kingdom (2) and Netherlands (2). Together they employ 1,282 of the division's 5,514 FTE: 23%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €37.7m awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €2.3m paid
- Federal transfers 305,679 amount as published
- EU budget €88.0m attributed share
- EU research €5.9m EU contribution
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Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €7,413 is below Belgium's €16,490. 15.5% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. 32.4% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Wallonia holds 43.2% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. 77.9% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. This activity holds 49.5% of the registrations of Travel agencies.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 341 of the 554 FTE: 61.5%.
Direction. Median solvency fell from 53.8% in financial year 2020 to 50.6% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €2,970 in financial year 2020 to €7,413 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 11-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 79901 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,472 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,781 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.