Canvas is a company of Arinna-Olcartour group. Arinna is an operator chartering deluxe boats, an achievement in Turkish travel and leisure market since 1997.
Olcartour, founded in 1987, is a member of IATA, and now has 8 branches throughout Turkey with 64 dedicated staff representing 61 airlines including the Turkish Airlines.
Olcartour coordinates incoming, ticketing, congress, seminars and a whole range of travel related businesses.
About Us
Arzu Tutuk
Arzu, in between her travels, spent her life in Istanbul. Having graduated as an engineer, she started working in travel management ten years ago.
Her experience lies in outdoor and adventure travel together with classical tours, which she has led with her professional guiding license.
She has extensive knowledge of this glamorous country, and shares the passion of a travel experience that is so out of the ordinary. Her experience allows our guests to reach deep into the Turkish culture and history in a more relaxing way.
Trips tailored by her offer world class hospitality and are superbly designed programmes exploring gorgeous, untrodden paths.
For the last three years, she worked for a Development and Training company based in the Lake District, UK. Her responsibilites were managing clients, understanding their needs and tailoring the programme accordingly. She was also the senior trainer during the courses which included team building, motivation and leadership.
Working also as an event manager, she arranged events, meetings and corporate entertainment.
Finally, she decided to put her inspirations, experience and passion into DMS on Canvas in which she is the founding partner.
Apart from working hard, Arzu likes playing hard, traveling, sea-kayaking, yoga and spending time outdoors with the sun, sea and the wind.
H. Serhan Cengiz
Serhan spent his childhood in the Turkish eastern Mediterranean, playing with sails and wind. While studying at the American College in Tarsus, travel became a passion.
He studied law for a year and later having graduated from the Middle East Technical University with B.S. in Business Management degree back in 1984, he started his own business in tourism.
Recognizing the shift to private travel management, he founded Arinna Yachting & Vela Dare as a yacht operator in Gocek, which is still his primary business. His insight into understanding his guests’ specific requests has made Arinna a major success in the Turkish travel and leisure market.
Arinna & Vela Dare have been reviewed many times in the New York Times, the Sunday Times, Islands Magazine USA, Sailing Today UK, Rutas Del Mondo Spain and the Gourmet USA magazine.
Serhan’s twenty years of experience eventually led him into partnership with Olcartour and from there into the founding of DMS on Canvas.
Whilst giving direction to the business, he still manages to spend some of his boundless energy travelling, photography, playing tennis, reading poetry and of course playing with dear Tots.
Numan Olcar
Numan, his father being a diplomat, has spent most of his childhood abroad in Europe and finished university in the UK.
He began working in tourism and in 1987 started his own business - Olcartur.
As one of the founders of TURSAB-Eastern Med., Numan spent nine years working for the association together with TOAR, IATA and DRV.
He has also been given the role of the Honorary Consulate of South Africa since 1995.
Numan has an exceptional drive for the creation of new projects and an expert’s eye for working with details.
Numan, working alongside his wife, loves to spend time with his two lovely children and of course travelling.
