From desert safaris to relaxed excursions, Sharjah-based Orient Tours offers it all to visitors to UAE and Oman.
The company says its specialises in individual and group tours and caters for visitors to the UAE and Oman from Europe, Japan, the US and Australia. Orient Tours was established in 1982 in Sharjah by Shaikh Faisal Al Qassemi and today has branches in Dubai, Muscat and Salalah. The company offers a variety of tour programs, desert trips and combination packages as well as tailor-made round trips, study trips, expeditions and fly and drive programs. Orient Tours also has a separate cruise ship handling section which caters to the growing cruise traffic to the UAE and Oman. "Our multilingual tour guides and drivers are professionally trained on safety and first aid," said the company. "We are the first tour operator in the Gulf to initiate a Tour Guide Training Seminar to improve the standard of our tour guides." The company has a staff of 85.