Dubai Plans to Welcome a Million Cruise Tourists by 2020
Dubai is known as the Middle East’s cruise hub. Over the last decade, the emirate’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) has been...
2016 Five-Star Awards – Finest hotels and restaurants across the globe...
154 Hotels Across the Globe Achieve the Coveted Five-Star Award, with Forbes Travel Guide Now Rating in 29 Countries and More than 100 of...
Medical Aesthetic Business in MENA Set to Surpass $1 Billion
Medica Group-backed reports outlines emerging aesthetics trends that are invading the MENA region with focus on UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt; in addition...
Gen X Driving GCC Outbound Travel, ATM
The GCC outbound market is forecast to grow exponentially over the next five years, driven by Gen X travellers, according to recent research, says...
Dubai Tourism Report Reveals Key Travel Trends
Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, last year, as well as an overview of future activities, campaigns and strategies as Dubai progresses towards...
Top 5 Luxury Travel Trends in 2013
Are you familiar with the term “luxury travel”? If not, we will explain it for you. Luxury travel is not about spending a huge...
Dubai Attracts 5.5 Million Visitors in H1 of 2013
Figures show an 11.1 per cent increase in visitor numbers, on track to achieve Dubai's Tourism Vision for 2020 of 20 million tourists annually
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Middle East Tourists are UK’s Most Avid Shoppers
The United Kingdom has become one of the most popular travel destinations for Middle East tourists. As a result, visitors from the region have...
Accessible Tourism, theme of World Tourism Day 2016
Tourism for all: people with disabilities, senior citizens and families travelling with small children, and sooner or later all citizens will appreciate the advantages...
Key Q2 Travel Trends & Insights For GCC Released
Al Tayyar Strategic Online Business Unit, MENA’s largest homegrown digital travel company which manages two cutting-edge online travel platforms on the web, mobile web...
UAE Travellers Happy to Spend More on Personalised Travel
New research from global travel technology company Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR) has found that travellers from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) would be willing...
Smartphones and Tablets Transform the Travel and Tourism Sector
The travel and tourism sector today is changing. However, that is not due only to the new habits of the consumers or the...
1500 medical tourists seek treatment through Dubai every day
Emirates Airlines is said to fly in 1,500 medical tourists daily to Dubai airport before they take onward flights to destinations such as India,...
Anticipated Social Media Buzz Can Drive Travellers Choices
How much positive feedback travelers think they'll get on social media can predict whether they intend to visit a tourism destination, a new University...
World Tourism At Standstill as 100% of Countries Impose Restrictions on...
COVID-19 has placed the whole world on lockdown, with new research from the World Tourism Organization showing that 100% of global destinations continue to...
Asia is the driving force in global tourism
Asia continues to be the driving force in global tourism. According to the latest ITB World Travel Trends Report, this year the number of...
Dubai’s “Tourism Dirham” launches today, but some are not very happy
The new fee, the so-called “tourism dirham”, which was announced by the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) in January officially launches...
Emirates Announces the Launch of “Share a Smile”
New multi-lingual campaign connects people through the humourous side of language
Emirates, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines today unveiled a new campaign...