Dubai: SNTTA, a travel company in the UAE, will have a network of 25 branches by the end of next year as the company begins the process of integrating all its outlets under a single management, powered by a new tagline "Travel the World."

"The travel industry has started seeing an upswing in outbound travel as the clouds of recession begin to lift, and we approach the peak summer travel season," Shaikh Khalid Bin Abdul Aziz Al Qasimi, Chairman of Liberty Investment Company, the holding company of Liberty Group, of which SNTTA is a member company, said in a press release.

"The re-engineered SNTTA business model will be tuned to fully tap the anticipated buoyancy in the UAE market and deliver a superior level of service to outbound travellers."

Zafar Imam, the newly appointed managing director of SNTTA Travel, UAE, said: "We are targeting over 15 per cent growth in 2010, having achieved an impressive 12 per cent growth in a difficult year like 2009."