Ferdinand Fransen
In 1944,  Fransen came to work at Travel Agency, Twenthe. In the 1950s, he started the Reis- en Passagebureau Arke together with Arke and Hennie Agterhuis. Arke retired in 1967 and Agterhuis died in 1973. Fransen became the sole director of the company. He developed the company from a bus travel company to a full tour operator. In 1989, he sold forty percent of his shares to the German Touristik Union International (TUI). In 1995, he sold them the rest of his shares. He owned many hotels in the Netherlands and Spain. These included Landgoed de Wilmersberg in De Lutte.