"Evinta on display at Dubai Airport Show 2014"

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - May 10, 2014 - PRLog -- Colombo, Sri Lanka, 11^th May 2014

The Evinta Departure Control System, Airport Resource Planning system and a groundbreaking Evinta Hand Held check in system will all be on display at the Dubai Airport Show from 11^th to 13^th May at the Evinta Exhibition space (Stall no 7520 – Hall 7) at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Center.

Held in Dubai annually, the show is a renowned B2B platform for companies to present airport and aviation-related products and services for the Middle East, South Asian and North African regions. In 2013, the event gathered 6,581 aviation professionals who networked, sourced their product requirements and created over US$20 billion worth of business.

Since its inception in 2009, The Sri Lankan based Evinta suite has secured leading star class airlines and airports specially in the Middle East, Asian and African regions continuously for its showcase of client logo’s. Today over ten million passengers are booked annually on Evinta systems currently in operation at airlines and airports across the globe in 6 Continents.

Backed by its cloud based platform, the fully customizable product portfolio comes with customer centric pricing schemes and reliable 24/7 support for the system. In addition to the Airport portfolio, on the Airlines front Evinta Airline solutions offers a complete package with its Internet Booking Engine, Loyalty System and RESPLAN module. (www.jkcsworld.com / www.jkcsworld.co.uk).

Evinta’s participation this year is in the 14^th edition of the show held under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chairman of Dubai Airports and Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Airline Group.

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About JKCS

In 1998 JKCS was incorporated as the software subsidiary of Sri Lanka’s largest listed conglomerate – John Keells Group. During the past decade the company has specialized in providing services to the aviation industry. JKCS has earned its wings by engineering core systems for some of the world’s biggest airlines. The customer portfolio includes Emirates Airlines, Qatar Airways, SAS, Air Arabia, Kingfisher Airlines and Sri Lankan. The systems offered by JKCS cover several aviation domains such as commercial, flight operations, ground handling, crew management, engineering and safety. The Company recently ventured into the hospitality industry as a means of re-defining its market space. A decade of aviation software expertise was put to use in developing a 100% Web based Hospitality Suite “Zhara HS”, which enables a hotels to manage their entire business by leveraging on the latest e-Technologies. The company operates in Sri Lanka, the UK and the UAE and over the past 15 years, JKCS and its subsidiaries have served customers across 40 countries in 6 continents.

Contact JKCS – +94 11 230 0770, info@jkcsworld.com (mailto:info@jkcs.slt.lk) or www.jkcsworld.com.

About John Keells Holdings (JKH)

(Reuters: JKH.CM, Bloomberg: JKH.SL, Dow Jones: P.JKH)

John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) is among Sri Lanka’s highest market capitalized companies listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange.  From managing the largest number of hotel rooms in Sri Lanka to owning the largest private-sector-owned transportation business in the country, tea broking to stock broking, banking to real estate, manufacturing of food and beverages to super marketing, providing port and marine fuel services to IT solutions, JKH has made its presence felt in every major sphere of the economy. Since its modest beginnings as a produce and exchange broker in the early 1870s, JKH has been known to constantly re-align, reposition and re-invent itself in pursuing growth sectors of the time, and is widely considered today a benchmark of the local economy.  JKH is a full member of the World Economic Forum, and having issued GDRs, was the first Sri Lankan company to be listed overseas.