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Cozmo Travel opened its 35th branch in Ruwais Mall in the city of Ruwais, UAE. A ‘new town’ with a diverse population, Ruwais is around 250 km west of Abu Dhabi. Mr Khalid Majid Al Bedwawi, Community Management Department Manager, ADNOC was present as the chief guest in the inauguration ceremony. Cozmo Travel has been expanding their reach in the market with its strong presence for the past 9 years and consistently delivering excellence through their services and continue to satisfy its customers needs in the best way possible. Mr Jamal Abdulnazar, CEO, Cozmo Travel said, “We are happy to be a part of the first stepping stone on the path towards actualising our parent company’s vision through a new partnership”

Cozmo Travel, the winner of the 2018 Arabian Travel Awards “The Fastest Growing Travel Management Company”, has been expanding their reach in the market with its strong presence for the past nine years and consistently delivering excellence through their services and satisfying customer needs in the best way possible. “The opening of Cozmo Travel’s fourth new branch in Ajman, Al Jurf area near China Mall, marking the opening of the fifth branch this year, is yet another important step towards realising our vision of being the leading travel agency in the Middle East. The new office will serve as one of the many strategic locations in Ajman along with the other major locations that we already operate from,” said Mr. Jamal Abdulnazar, CEO, Cozmo Travel. Cozmo Travel branches are strategically located across the seven emirates in order to be accessible to all customers. It has 12 branches in Sharjah, four in Ajman, two in Fujairah, three in RAK, two in Abu Dhabi,  two in Al Ain, one in UAQ, and six branches across Dubai.

Cozmo Travel, a travel management company owned by Air Arabia Group, has inaugurated its 30th branch in the UAE. The sixth branch located in Dubai Investment Park (DIP) was inaugurated by Shalini Rajan, Head of Sales and Cargo, Air Arabia. According to Jamal Abdulnazar, CEO of Cozmo Travel, “The opening of our new and 6th branch in Ramla Mall, Dubai is yet another milestone in realising our vision of becoming the leading travel agency in the Middle East. The new office will serve as a strategic location in Dubai along with other major locations that we already operate from. More outlets will be opened in Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi and we will expand our global service to Egypt, Jordan, and Oman in 2019”. Headquartered in Sharjah, Cozmo Travel offers customised travel solutions for independent and corporate travellers and has branches in easily accessible strategic locations across the seven emirates. The company presently offers services from 11 branches in Sharjah, three in Ajman, two in Fujairah, two in Ras Al Khaimah, three in Abu Dhabi, two in Al Ain, one in UAQ and six in Dubai. Since its launch in 2010, Cozmo Travel has been consistent in delivering excellent services and expanding its reach in the market. The customer-driven organisation with over 1,000+ highly experienced professionals has its global presence in nine countries namely in KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, India, China, Oman, Egypt and Jordan.

Travelport has been recognised as the Best Technology Partner to the travel and hospitality industry in the Middle East for the second consecutive year at Arabian Travel Awards 2018. The company also scooped the Best Travel Technology Provider award, a category formerly called Best Global Distribution System, which Travelport also won in 2017. The ceremony took place recently at JW Marriott Hotel in Deira, Dubai. Arabian Travel Awards is an annual event designed to support, promote and develop the Middle East travel and hospitality industry by identifying and rewarding excellence, and inspiring its practitioners to continuously raise the standards of their product and service offering. Winners are selected based on a unique system of jury, judgement and online voting by industry professionals. In other categories, Cozmo Travel won Fastest Growing Travel Management Company and Al Naboodah Travel won the Best General Sales Agent (GSA) award. Matthew Powell, Managing Director, Travelport, Africa, Middle East and South Asia, said, “We are proud of the work we have done over the last 12 months. Our travel commerce platform is faster, our merchandising and analytics solutions are more powerful, and our mobile applications like Trip Assist, are even more dynamic and in tune with the needs of today’s hyper-connected travellers. We are delighted this work has been recognised by the industry. We will continue to work tirelessly to lead the change we want to see for the benefit of our customers and travellers.”

Jamal Abdulnazar, Chief Executive Officer, Cozmo Travel, has been conferred the Gallery of Legends trophy at the Arabian Travel Awards held in Dubai. Having moved to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to start his career in tourism at the age of 21, Abdulnazar’s dedication and passion for the industry made sure that he never looked back. With a mission to cater to everyone with travel aspirations, he set up a travel agency in 2010 with a team size of five. Today, this pioneering agency has a staff strength of 900, turnover of 1.2 billion dollars and 100 branches across seven countries. His phenomenal achievements are attributed to his progressive vision and leadership.

RwandAir has recently appointed Cozmo Travel as its Passenger General Sales Agent (GSA) for the GCC countries (Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia (Offline). “These strategic partnerships play a very important role especially for airlines entering new markets and the practice is that airlines look competitively for established and well known GSA’s when entering particular markets which saves airlines associated costs for new market entry and, or development such as infrastructure, human resource etc while focusing on results. We are already established in the UAE, flying into and out of Dubai and we do cover the entire UAE market from a passenger and cargo sales perspective. This partnership is part of a growth strategy, though offline and it gives us an opportunity to assess the GCC markets for any other decisions in the future,” stated  Timothy Njihia, Country Manager—UAE | GCC | Pakistan, RwandAir.” Jamal Abdulnazar, CEO, Cozmo Travel stated, “With Cozmo Travel’s extensive retail presence in all the GCC countries, RwandAir will be able to capitalise on Cozmo’s  network in the region ensuring a wider market reach. Likewise Cozmo will be able to represent and sell the various RwandAir destinations within the African continent as well their expanding network into Asia and Europe. With a significant population of African nationals working and residing in the GCC region, the focus will be to capitalize on the large network of destinations within the African continent served by RwandAir.”

Cozmo Travel has announced a partnership with Taiwan Tourism Board. Aimed at the summer of 2017, Taiwan is going to be the latest outbound destination for UAE.  Jamal Abdul Nazar, CEO, Cozmo Travel, said, “We are happy to announce that we have signed a contract with Taiwan Tourism Board with a range of joint promotions to increase tourism and visibility for Taiwan through Cozmo Travel network.” Vishal Mehra – VP Sales, Taiwan Tourism Board, said, “We are pleased to tie-up with Cozmo Travel in the UAE. This partnership is aimed at increasing the number of visitors to Taiwan from the Middle East, a trend that is already on an upward index. We have recognised the fact that Taiwan has a huge potential for tourism offerings to the UAE in particular, and the GCC at large, owing to the multi-cultural population in the region. The partnership with Cozmo Travel will help us further boost interest and ease the travel to the beautiful Chinese island.”    

Cozmo Travel has launched a B2B trade portal, www.travtrolley.com for local travel and tourism industry operators in the UAE. This new online booking system offers a single login and account to manage the complete tour package which includes airlines, hotels and car rentals worldwide. It is a user-friendly interface developed to empower both travel agencies and corporates in the UAE and the GCC region. Commenting on the initiative, Jamal Abdul Nazar, CEO of Cozmo Travel, said, “We are proud to launch the B2B trade portal for the travel sector operators in the UAE. This is another milestone achievement for Cozmo Travel that allows us to spearhead the industry by incorporating online innovations to serve our customers well. Our new B2B online platform will be a pioneering initiative in the UAE’s travel and tourism industry. We also plan to expand this initiative to other GCC countries. The B2B portal provides both inbound and outbound holiday packages across the globe based on various seasons and interests.” Deepa Rajesh, Head of Sales at Cozmo Travel, said, “We are happy to launch the B2B portal, which is a one-of-a-kind initiative in the UAE’s travel industry. We introduced this considering the evolution of new business models in the travel industry to provide travellers more choices and assist them in making more informed decisions in the digital age. We firmly believe that technology and digital sector is the way forward and with dedication and hard work we want to be one of the best service providers in the travel and tourism industry. This portal is at the forefront both technologically and in terms of services offered. We are offering hundreds of airline fares and thousands of …