Tourism & Hospitality | Monday 10 October, 2016 10:52 am |

Alpha Destination Management , the region’s leading destination management company , is giving a big push to its operations and overseas marketing in order to attract more tourists to UAE in general and Dubai in particular.

Ghassan Aridi, CEO, Alpha Destination Management said that recently we opened a representative office in South Korea. We succeeded to sign a contract with one of the biggest tour operators specialized in MICE tourism, to attract 3600 tourists by next March.

He added that the Korean market is one of the promising and most important markets for us. After entering the South Korean market, we are planning to expand our footprint in the region.

“ In order to tap the new markets our company has decided to invade the dark continent for opening different representative offices there to attract more tourists. Our first office will be in Angola shortly followed by more openings in other parts of the African countries, which will be announced in due time," Aridi added .

He disclosed that due opening rep offices in different continents proved its success in attracting more tourists. opening 7  offices in India also helped to increase the number of Indian tourist to UAE and Dubai during the new tourist season which started this October till the end of April 2017 .

In the field of Cruise tourism in massive way next year , Aridi said that “ we already signed a contract with one of the biggest cruise operators to operate cruise trips from Dubai to Qatar , Oman and Bahrain for 4 or 7 days will be convenient to all nationalities and families .