Kuwait Airways organises a sports day for travel agents
MUSCAT: Kuwait Airways has organised a sports event that brought together major travel agents in Muscat in a large gathering of the travel and tourism sector in the Sultanate. In an annual gesture, Kuwait Airways, through its office in Muscat, was keen to establish this gathering, during which the football tournament was held. The event brought together the 16 travel agents teams which was distributed in to four groups in a two-days competition. The closing ceremony was held under the patronage of Mr Hamad al Fahoud, the consular of the Kuwait Embassy in the Sultanate, in the presence of Amin al Haimi, Kuwait Airways, Director-sales and Marketing from Kuwait and Adel al Zadjali, Secretary of the Muscat Club.
The event witnessed a good competition between the participating teams from the various travel agents in Muscat and they were keen this year to participate and make the event a success. The event included many activities and was attended by the families of the players and the employees of travel agents in the Sultanate at Muscat Club. The Muscat club field witnessed many music and dance performance and entertainment programmes along with football matches that made the participants to enjoy thoroughly. After a beautiful final match, Fahd Express Travel & Tourism team has won the tournament in the penalty shootout. The winners of the competition were crowned as KAC Football Champions 2018 as well as the best player award went to Khamis al Sabhi, the Fahad Express employee. The runner-up cup was won by Khimji’s House of Travel team.
Amin al Haimi, the Director of Kuwait airways said “He was pleased to witness the matches played by mostly Omani staff from travel agents and appreciated the participating teams for their enthusiasm in sports. Kuwait Airways is keen to organise this annual gathering to travel agents in the Sultanate to create a beautiful family atmosphere that brings together the families of the employees of these offices in a gathering to practice sports activities in addition to getting out of the pressures of work, among staff in this sector. Further, the sport activity of this kind is the perfect event to bring both travel agents and Kuwait Airways together for team development and giving us a chance to build strong relationships with travel agents.