ODEON Tours (ODEON Tourism International), the first subsidiary of Coral Travel Group (OTI Holding), was established. ODEON Tours has demonstrated its difference in the sector in a short time by breaking many grounds in the field of quality.
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1992
1994
Coral Travel brand started tour operator activities in Russia.
1999
Holiday Services, an online sales portal, has been acquired and started its operations. HMS Tatil offers its users hotels, car rental, flight tickets and cultural tours in Türkiye.
2000
Tour operator Coral Travel, which is among the leaders of the Polish market today, started its operations in Warsaw. Coral Travel sells holiday packages to 15 countries with flight opportunities from 13 Polish cities.
2001
ISO 9001 Quality Management System started to be implemented at ODEON Tours. Thus, for the first time in Türkiye, ODEON Tours received the quality certificate that will cover all travel agency services.
2002
Coral Travel sales agency chain was established in Russia.
2004
ODEON Tours Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh offices were opened and destination services were launched in Egypt.
2005
Sunmar brand started its tour operator activities in Russia.
Otium Hotels International started to operate with two hotels.
OGD Security and Consultancy company was established. It started its activities mostly to serve tourism businesses.
2006
Coral Travel started its tour operator activities in the domestic market of Türkiye.
2008
Coral Travel started its tour operator activities in the Ukrainian market. Today, the company is among the market leaders.
Coral Travel Group (OTI Holding) acquired a hotel in Side, Antalya. The hotel was improved with the construction and started its operations under the name Otium Eco Club Side.
2010
Coral Travel started its tour operator activities in Belarus.
ODEON Tours Destination Services started its operations in Thailand.
2011
Ireland-based airline leasing company Blue Connect was founded in Dublin.
2012
ODEON Tours Destination Services started its operations in Spain.
2013
ODEON Tours Destination Services started its operations in the UAE.
ODEON Tours Destination Services Türkiye received the EFQM Competency in Excellence 5 star certificate.
Seven Seas and Kemer Life hotels were acquired by Coral Travel Group (OTI Holding). Today, the hotels operate under the names Seven Seas Blue Side and Seven Seas Life Kemer within the Seven Seas hotel chain of the Group.
Coral Travel started its tour operator activities in Georgia.
2014
Xanadu Resort Belek hotel was acquired and joined to Coral Travel Group (OTI Holding).
ODEON Tours Destination Services started its operations in Greece.
2017
OTI Holding celebrated its 25th anniversary.
With 1,196,616 guests brought to Türkiye in 2017, Odeon Tours became the tourism company that brought the highest number of tourists from all markets.
FERIEN Touristik GmbH, operating in Germany, was acquired by Coral Travel Group (OTI Holding). Today, FERIEN Touristik serves over 400 thousand guests annually. The company offers package holidays to around 100 destinations in 26 countries.
2018
Odeon Tours has become the tourism group that brings the highest number of tourists from all over the world to Türkiye by bringing a total of 1,524,704 tourists, 1,377,345 of which are in Antalya.
Odeon Tourism ranked first in the “Travel Agency Services” category and 9th in service exports in all sectors across Türkiye in the “Türkiye's Top 500 Service Exporters” survey conducted with the contributions of the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) and the Ministry of Trade.
2019
ODEON Software and Technology started its activities.
2021
Coral Travel started its tour operator activities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
2022
The name of OTI Holding was changed to Coral Travel Group.
Coral Travel Group celebrated its 30th anniversary.
Coral Travel started its tour operator activities in the Czech Republic, Romania and Switzerland.
