Al Khalidiah Group of Companies has existed in the United Arab Emirates for over 10 years. Its founder, Sirak Muradyan, came here in August 1996, and in October received a license for his first Al Khalidiah Resort hotel. All objects of the company belong to members of the ruling Al-Kassimi family in Sharjah. Al Khalidiah Group of Companies includes three licenses in Sharjah and one in Dubai for tourism and hotel activities. Al Khalidiah Tourism LLC, which has been around for five years, is registered in Dubai. The company began its activity in the tourism business with the smallest quota of places, and now Al Khalidiya has the largest number of guaranteed rooms in Sharjah beach hotels and many guaranteed rooms in the most popular hotels in Dubai.
We decided to talk about the development of the Al Khalidiah group of companies with its owner - Sirak Muradyan.
- How did you manage to achieve such success in the face of fierce competition?
- First of all, it is the trust of our partners, which has developed over the years. And this is not only mutual cooperation, but also help and support in everything.
An important role is played by the experience gained in the process of long work, the ability to remain calm in any situation, the ability to predict, to calculate the situation several steps forward. One cannot but mention the individual approach to each client, to each individual problem. All this, in my opinion, is the main components of success.
I believe competition should not be feared. Better just good and skillfully establish cooperation. Any level at which you work must be earned. I do not receive quotas for the resettlement of certain tourists in various hotels just for beautiful eyes. This is the result of long-term cooperation of our company with these hotels. Ten years of work in Sharjah, in my opinion, is a considerable time to get the largest number of rooms in Sharjah hotels. Of course, without the support of my partners from Russia, I would not have achieved such success.
- What kind of partners are you talking about?
- These are the companies that I really love and respect - travel agencies from Moscow, Samara, St. Petersburg, those companies in which we are fully confident. For example, this is the Moscow operator Space Travel. The company is headed Galina Zozul and Dmitriy Novikov. These are my very close friends, and friendship with them began even before I opened my own company. One cannot fail to note Art Tour, Eastline, Russian Express, Intaer, Pax and my Samara partners: Intourist-Samara, Aerotur-Samara, SputnikGermes, Samara Intour , "Rasip Travel." Partners from St. Petersburg are the companies Glob Tour, Intertransavia, Etoile, Neva and Versa.
- Do you work only with the Russian market?
- We work with all CIS countries. To a greater extent with Russia, Ukraine (this year they began working with the new Ukrainian company Travel Time), Kazakhstan, Armenia and a little with the rest of the countries.
- At the beginning of our conversation, you said that you own three companies. Why so much?
- The fact is that for each type of activity it is necessary to open a license. Thus, we own three companies. These are two hotels - al Khalidiah resort and Marhaba resort, and a travel company - al Khalidiah Tourism llc.
I registered another travel company in Sharjah for insurance. If suddenly there are problems with obtaining visas in Dubai immigration, then we calmly turn to Sharjah.
- And what could be the problems?
- As a rule, these are problems associated with the late departure of tourists outside the UAE. An expired tourist visa is a serious violation of immigration law.
But, thank God, today our company does not have such problems, and we open visas to all nationalities, people of any age. We have no restrictions for young women under 30 years old.
- And what are the disadvantages in your work?
- Of the minuses can be called a lack of rooms in Sharjah hotels and mostly Dubai. This is especially true for a group such as Jumeirah. We can not say about their not very favorable attitude towards new or not very large companies. And the following happens: Jumeirah chose for itself 4-5 large (in her opinion) companies and works mainly with them. Thus, Jumeirah does not give any chance to prove himself, not providing not only numbers, but also contracts. How in this case to be newcomers to the tourism market ?! How do they develop and earn a reputation? How to find a way out if tourists want to relax in these luxurious hotels that were built, thanks to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed for all of humanity.
- Let's move on to more positive points in your work. As far as I know, the program of excursions of your company has recently replenished with boat trips?
- Yes, we have a very large tour desk with a large fleet of vehicles - more than 20 buses and cars. Tourists can use our services around the clock. Lacked only marine modes of transport. Therefore, this year we purchased a large beautiful yacht, 12.2 m long, with two sleeping cabins, where you can go out for a day or evening walk, go fishing, go diving or just get no traffic jams from Sharjah to Dubai and back - by sea .
- In conclusion, I would like to know about the next steps in the development of your company.
- At the moment we have 2 small hotels with 36 and 48 rooms. I think we have grown enough to overpower a hotel with a large number of rooms. Now I am considering options. And, of course, we plan to increase the number of guaranteed rooms in Sharjah and Dubai hotels.
- What would you wish our readers.
- On behalf of the company, I would like to wish everyone happiness, health, good luck and a more careful attitude to organizing your vacation. Contact the companies that have earned a decent reputation and will be able to satisfy all your needs. Relax in comfort! - I wish you good luck and further successful business development.
