Qatar Airways Holds Travel Trade Workshop in Doha

Doha, April 08 (QNA) - Qatar Airways has held its annual travel trade workshop for over 500 Qatar-based travel agents and tour operators to provide product updates on the national airline. Held at the Qatar National Convention Centre, the day-long event gave the local trade an opportunity to learn more about the carrier s expansion plans and new products being introduced by the carrier over the next few months. From Qatar Airways Privilege Club frequent flyer programme and Qatar Airways Holidays, the line-up of presentations also covered updates on the airline s current fleet, international expansion, as well as promotional campaigns. A raffle draw proved popular as Business Class tickets were given away to four lucky individuals. The event was presided by Qatar Airways Vice-President Commercial-Qatar Ehab Amin who praised the trade for their ongoing support and commitment since the airline s inception 15 years ago. Qatar Airways sales team was out in strength to meet trade partners and discuss opportunities for the next 12 months. "The turnout at our annual workshop was bigger than ever before and we were delighted to share news and developments at Qatar Airways with the very travel trade partners we work with on a day to day basis," said Amin. As a truly international airline covering six continents, Qatar Airways currently operates a modern fleet of 107 aircraft to 113 key business and leisure destinations across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, North America and South America. As part of its 2012 expansion programme, Qatar Airways recently launched flights to Tbilisi in Georgia, Baku in Azerbaijan and the Rwandan capital Kigali. The airline has a further 11 new routes to launch during 2012, namely Perth (Australia), Zagreb (Croatia), Gassim (Saudi Arabia), Helsinki (Finland), Belgrade (Serbia), Erbil (Iraq), Baghdad (Iraq), Yangon (Myanmar), Mombasa (Kenya), Zanzibar (Tanzania) and Kilimanjaro (Tanzania).(QNA)