The Kanoo family's involvement in air travel dates back to 1937 when the company provided refueling facilities in Bahrain for Imperial Airways seaplanes in route to India and Australia. Today, Kanoo Travel is the largest Travel Company in the Middle East, with a team of over 1000 travel professionals, operating in a network of over 180 IATA accredited locations in the region, and through a global network of world class travel partners.  With a network of offices in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar, Kanoo Travel offers a unique level of geographical spread to its valued corporate and retail clients. In addition, Kanoo Travel have also entered into the Egypt travel market in partnership with American Express Travel Services and recently acquired a strong network of retail travel and foreign exchange shops in United Kingdom and France.

American Express Travel Network

Kanoo Travel - American Express Middle East Travel Franchise Program covers all of North Africa, the Levant, GCC including Iraq and the CIS countries. The growing relationship continues to expand today. The partnership with Kanoo reinforces American Express's confidence in the future of the travel market and its commitment to developing its business in the Middle East.
 

• First ISO accredited travel agency in the Middle East
•    First IATA accredited travel agency in the region - 1947
•    Global association with American Express Travel Services
•    Over 180 IATA locations in the region
•    24 hour emergency travel services
•    Over 1000 trained professional associates
•    GSA’s for over 30 major international airlines and hotel partners
•    Sound financial standing
•    Online travel services
 

Kanoo Corporate
 

Kanoo Corporate brings a new way of working and developing innovative solutions to deliver superior corporate services to companies across the region.

At Kanoo Corporate we are dedicated to making sure your company gets maximum value for your corporate travel budget.

Our reputation for service excellence has been proven time and time again. It’s not only the many awards we have won over the years that stand testament to this fact, but also our clients. With an impressive portfolio that encompasses multinational corporations and national companies, Kanoo Corporate has long been delivering solutions to some of the most prestigious corporations in Middle East region.
 

Management Information Reports –

Gain a better understanding of your company’s travel patterns, accurately project budgets, identify savings opportunities, manage policy compliance and more. The Management Information System (MIS) has been designed with significant benefits to clients though its integration with their current corporate accounting and reconciliation procedures.

Key Account Management

With Kanoo Corporate, your business will have its own Account Manager, Travel Manager and team of travel consultants. As part of our company-wide philosophy, our teams are specifically designed to be small and focused. We are always there when you need us.


Traveler Security

Kanoo Corporate can proactively advise and assist you in helping to protect the safety and wellbeing of your people while they are on the move, anywhere in the world. Kanoo Corporate will work with an external travel security provider of your choice, comply and support a process designed and built to offer awareness of existing and potential incidents around the world.

 
Travel Policy Management

Meet the needs of your business travelers with exceptional service, enhanced. Our travel experts and management tools allows you to facilitate the streamlined control of all your travel related expenditure.
 

Service Level Agreements:  We understand that your business requires the highest level of service.  To ensure this a Service Level Agreement is drawn up and documented to monitor not only the application of the policy but more importantly to meet and exceed the agreed service levels.
 

Supplier Negotiations:  Save on air, hotel and car rental reservations. As the largest travel management company in the region, Kanoo Travel is able to offer your business substantial savings globally.  Our purchasing power ensures that we are able to negotiate the most favourable rates for our customers.
 

Kanoo Holidays – Leisure Travel Services
 

Kanoo Holidays offers a comprehensive range of holiday products and services spanning all the essential holiday experiences from family fun and relaxation to honeymoon and adventure packages.
 

Adventure Tours

Kanoo Holidays has specialized in adventure travel with a focus on cultural journeys and wildlife encounters. If you share our lust for life and curiosity for culture, we invite you to explore our wide selection of adventure tours.
 

Cruises

If you want value for money, outstanding service, and a huge choice of cruise deals to choose from, then you are in the right place.  At Kanoo Holidays it will be easy for you to choose the right Mediterranean cruise, Caribbean cruise or even the ultimate - round the world cruise.
 

Pilgrim Tourism

As a leading provider of travel services to the fast-growing pilgrimage and religious travel sector, we are well equipped to offer a comprehensive suite of services and unique travel experiences to those wishing to affirm their faith through travel. Our strong relationships with airlines and ground operators around the world ensure our clients gain the best value and most personally fulfilling journeys and pilgrimages prepared and overseen by specialists in the field.
 

Family Holidays

With a range of family packages that take adventurers to all corners of the planet, Kanoo Holidays is bound to have the family adventure holiday for you.  Whether you are looking for a safe, exciting trip for your teenager to join, an unforgettable family activity holiday that will take you and your kids to share some phenomenal experiences or just an overseas adventure holiday that caters for all ages and tastes, Kanoo Holidays Family Adventures are sure to appeal.
 

Kanoo Holidays MICE

Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Events

Kanoo Holidays MICE is a division of Kanoo Travel LLC which is fully owned subsidiary of YBA Kanoo Group. With immeasurable experience in the travel and leisure industry and expertise in MICE business has lead us to develop a fully fledge MICE division under the flag of Kanoo Holidays.

We can offer the unique blend of services, experience, innovation and reliability that is key to managing your event successfully whether the assignment is a full-scale international event or a local event, our team undertakes it with the same meticulous attention to detail and regard for cost effectiveness.

Our Network

Kanoo has a very strong network in the region, Europe and in other destinations through our branch offices and joint partners located in all parts of the world. This strengthen the Kanoo MICE division to provide wide range of services with relate events organize in all over the globe.

Our Expertise

With many decades of experience in the travel industry within the region and our extensive network branches and suppliers reinforce us to offer superlative MICE solutions for all customers within their budget.

Our Professionalism

We Kanoo Group always maintain high level of service and we make sure that we are highly professional on all what we do.
 

Conference, Meetings and Special Events

We organize meetings, conferences and special events with greatest impact by adopting relevant international and cultural themes.

Incentive Tours


We create unique incentive tours to reward the corporate personalities with unforgettable experience and our team will design custom made programs as per budget limits of each client.
Kanoo Marine Travel Services
 

Kanoo Marine Travel is a specialized business division of Kanoo Travel, the largest travel company in the Middle East.

Shipping and port agency background allows Kanoo Marine Travel a firsthand understanding of the requirements of seamen travel in today’s busy and demanding industry.

With associate partners worldwide, Kanoo Marine Travel is able to meet the global needs of its shipping clients. “Kanoo Marine” offers a complete range of services in Marine Travel Management experienced professional s provide customize solutions for marine clients who require the highest level of service and return on their investment.


Constant research and analysis on Marine Travel has resulted in innovative, and an impressive solution of top shipping clients including names such as Aramco, Vela Marine, GAC, Tidewater, UASC, PGS Marine, Seabulk and Nabors Drilling.
 

• Competitive Global Marine fares
• Networking
• Dedicated Marine Travel specialists
• Exclusive Marine Travel centre
• 24 hours Marine Travel assistance
• Over 65 years of Shipping and Marine Travel experience

Airline Service (GSA’s)
 

The General Sales Agent (GSA) division of Kanoo Travel provides a range of services to support the distribution, sales and marketing activities of over 30 principal international travel related service providers.

The Airline Affairs division is specifically tailored to complement individual airline requirements, and is supported by a multi-lingual team of highly trained and experienced staff. It provides airline principals the 'legal entity' to establish a commercial presence and the right to trade. This includes market distribution, financial set-up, licensing, hassle-free sponsorship, search and assistance with office/retail space and/or full employee resourcing services like recruitment, payroll and accommodation.
 

Services offered to our airline partners:

• Extensive marketing, sales and distribution support
• Effective field sales representation
• Identify and support SPA agreements
• Dedicated reservations staff
• Effective accounting back-ups and automated accounting infrastructure
• Immediate access to key segments of the market e.g. corporate travel, leisure & retail
• Development, distribution and promotion of leisure/holiday packages for airline principals
• Branded airline offices
• 24-hour call centre and ticketing services 

Services offered to travel agents:

• BSP/CIP/Ticket stock
• Tactical and innovative marketing communications support
• Regular product updates/briefings on new GSA products
• Credit facility
• Field sales support
• Distribution of airline products

Visa services
 

VISA Services of Kanoo Holidays is a dedicated operation specialized at handling Inbound and Outbound visa requests for our valued corporate and leisure travelers.

Our services include:

• Inbound visa processing – visit and transit visas for corporate clients
• Outbound visas for select destinations (as per visa regulatory rules and regulations) – business and tourist visas

• Document collection and visa submission at consulate / embassy
• Collection of passport from consulate / embassy 
 
Kanoo Travel
P.O Box No.75, PC 114
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Tel  : +968 24700249
Fax : +968 24700317
E-mail : info@kanootravel.com
www.kanootravel.com