At the inception, NKAR fully concentrated on outbound travel. Gradually the Company got involved in the inbound operations. Since getting into inbound tourism, the organization has been steadily growing, increasing the number of arrivals year after year. Currently NKAR offers a wide selection of services for business and leisure travel all under one roof.
Stability Through Diversity
NKAR is a
member of a highly diversified group of companies (Devagiri
Group (Pvt.) Ltd.), with interests in Plantations,
manufacturing of tea and rubber, Hoteliering and Wholesale
retail trading in general hardware. The members in the
group include;
Iddamaldeniya Estate Ltd.- The
Factory was bought over in 1997 by Devagiri Group. Today
Iddamaldeniya Estates produces over 50,000Kgs of low
grown tea per month.
Davidson Tea Company Ltd – This
factory is fully equipped with modern machinery, including
colour separators that grade the quality of tea be sensing
the colour. This modern factory too produces over 50,000kgs
of processed tea per month.
Devagiri Hotels (Pvt.) Ltd., (Hotel Club Lanka): In 1983, the
group ventured in to the hotel sector with the establishment
of Hotel Club Lanka, a Tourist Beach Resort at Koggala.This
40-roomed hotel with 80 beds on the south Coast is the
ideal venue for water sports, and provides swimming
pool and many other recreational facilities. It has
also weekly entertainment programme with scrumptious
buffets, barbecues etc., Hotel Club Lanka has a year
round occupancy average of 65%.
Nanayakkara & Company. (Pvt.) Ltd.,: Nanayakkara
& Company (Pvt.) Ltd., was the first investment
of the group as a wholesale trading company for food
and other commodities. This company was established
well over 55 years ago. Today the establishment has
taken a different turn and has moved in to wholesale
and retail hardware merchandizing.
Nkar Sky Clan (Pvt) Ltd: The
company was established in order to focus on airline
representation. In keeping with our objective, we were
appointed general sales agent for Pakistan International
Airlines in Sri Lanka in December 2002.
Since the appointment of Nkar Sky Clan (Pvt) Ltd as
GSA, PIA – Colombo made it’s
mark as the highest revenue generating station in their
offline network.
PIA (Pakistan International Air Lines) re-commenced
online operations into Colombo with affect January 2004.As
GSA for PIA we are responsible for all marketing functions
for both Passenger and Cargo products and also look
after all aspects of Airport operations. Needless to
say we are extremely competent in all aspects of airline
representation. As GSA we have also promoted various
interline agreements to market the PK brand besides improving yield.
We have brought in a well experienced, dynamic and a
recognized personality in the airline industry as the
CEO of Nkar Sky Clan (Pvt) Ltd to manage and market
the airlines that we represent in the country |