Tourism & Hospitality | Tuesday 15 December, 2015 2:22 pm |

The 2nd Natalie Tours Kazakhstan’s executives Congress has started today in Dubai, assembling over 60 participants: Top 50 Kazakhstan’s agents, Natalie Tours Kazakhstan’s top management, host partner Alpha Destination Management top executives, DUBAI Tourism and host hotel Habtoor Grand Beach Resort & Spa, Autograph Collection.

The business event of Natalie Tours Kazakhstan will take place at the Habtoor Grand Resort & SPA, Autograph Collection 5*. The business part of the congress began today, December 08. The first day of Congress also includes presentations from Dubai Tourism. Also, the participants will see the presentations about Natalie Tours Kazakhstan’s strategic plans on the market, the tour operator’s efforts towards the United Arab Emirates, results of working this year, answer questions and take part in active discussions.

 

The official part of the Congress will be over by Work shop with the best hotels of UAE. The representatives of the best agencies of Kazakhstan will have the opportunity to receive information and the latest news directly from the hotels. Just expect about 50 representatives of hotels at the Work shop .

Since the beginning of work of representative office Natalie Tours in Kazakhstan (since 2012) around 50,000 tourists have gone to UAE from Kazakhstan. Today almost 30% of sales of tours to UAE in summer account for of the average annual volume.

Natalie Tours with Alpha Destination Management offers the largest assortment of hotels and activities in all the Emirates for tourists from Kazakhstan. The main competitive advantage of

Natalie Tours – resource segment of hotels 5* and 4*+ in which the resource of other operators are limited to the season as a rule.

 

At the moment four airlines and 33 flights fly weekly from Kazakhstan to UAE. Natalie Tours offers tours based on each of them, and is ready to offer the flights of different classes of services with all possible additional services, both on the boards and in the cities of arrival.

 

«In recent years the financial crisis is being felt in Kazakhstan too, – said Yuri Sobolev, Head of Natalie Tours Kazakhstan. – But we don’t plan to reduce the amount of sales of tours to UAE in 2016. On the contrary we are planning to increase the volume of sales to this destination

Mr. Adnan Aridi, Managing Director of Alpha Destination Management said, “Russia is one of the biggest markets for Dubai and Alpha Destination Management. We attracted more than 80 thousand Russian tourists during the first 10 months of 2015 and we will make big marketing campaign in Russia with the cooperation of DUBAI Tourism.”

Mr. Vladimir Vorobiev, President of Natalie Tours said, “After the marketing campaign between DUBAI Tourism and Alpha DMC, we expect to increase the total Russian tourists with half million tourists. We succeeded to attract the Russian tourists who supposed to go to Egypt and Turkey and brought them to Dubai and UAE .“

Mr. Marc Bennett, Vice President of International Operations, DUBAI Tourism made a presentation about the new attractions of Dubai and the importance of CIS Market for Dubai Tourism Industry.

Mr. Khalid Said, Hotel Manager of Habtoor Grand Beach Resort & Spa Autograph Collection said, “Last few years the Russian represented more than 25% of the hotel guests, however, after the crisis this percentage decreased and soon it will recover. We are partner with Alpha Destination Management for every CIS event and in hosting all the CIS tour operators. Since February this year our hotel became part of Marriott International family.”