DOHA: Dnata Travel yesterday opened its first retail arm of operations in Qatar set to offer customers here access to a vast, competitive range of travel products and services.
"With the opening of our retail operations here in Doha, Dnata Travel and HRG are able to offer customers a one-stop shop for all their travel needs, plus access to an unbeatable range of travel management services," said Abdulla Tawakul, Senior Vice President - Corporate and Regional Network, Dnata Travel Services.
"We are extremely positive about the market here in Qatar, a country with a healthy appetite for travel that has maintained strong economic growth over the last several years, despite the global economic downturn."
Dnata Travel is the largest travel management organisation in the Middle East with over 50 years of experience in the industry.
The range of travel services offered at Dnata Travel Qatar include corporate travel services; flight bookings with over 100 airlines; a 24/7 facility for reservations; tailor-made holiday packages, tours, excursions and safaris for all budgets; Hajj and Umrah packages; aircraft charters; worldwide car rentals; travel insurance; marine travel services; Marhaba meet and greet services for Dubai; event management; and much more.
This announcement follows the opening of Dnata Travel/HRG corporate travel services in May last year which took the travel management company's regional reach to seven countries; UAE, Bahrain, KSA, Kuwait, Oman, Afghanistan and Qatar.
To celebrate the opening, Dnata Travel has launched a summer promotional campaign offering great value holiday packages in conjunction with a summer raffle competition to reward its customers. Open to those who spend QR1,500 with Dnata Travel, the summer raffle will be drawn once a month, providing Dnata customers three chances to win QR7,000 worth of travel vouchers every month, until November 8 this year.
"The unmatched, regional travel service experience of our skilled and professional staff, coupled with access to the latest technology in travel services and the ability to tap into an extensive network of partnerships, is what will set Dnata Travel Qatar apart from the competition," said Qatar General Manager Rehan Ali Syed.
This latest expansion underlines Dnata Travel Service's position as the leading travel management company in the GCC - a position recognised at the World Travel Awards where Dnata Travel Services has consecutively won the Middle East's Leading Travel Management Company award, four years running.
Dnata Travel Qatar is located on C-Ring Road, near Muntaza Signal and operates from 8am to 8pm Saturday to Thursday and from 4:30pm to 8.30pm on Fridays.
For more information on travel services contact (974) 44 48 48 48 or visit www.dnatatravel.com.
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