STEFAN RADSTROM has taken over as general manager at Grand Hyatt Muscat.

SAMIR ARORA has been promoted to cluster general manager of R Hotels’ two properties in Dubai;

RÉMY MERCKX continues at Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group as vice president of marketing for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

DESPITE BEING ONE OF THE NEWEST HOTEL MANAGEMENT COMPANIES IN THE MIDDLE

Dubai Duty Free (DDF), which incorporates the airport retail operation and its leisure division at both Dubai International and

Spending on airport construction projects globally has risen to over USD441 billion, according to the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA).

Based on data released by the organisation, there are some 2,520 projects under development around the world, with the Middle East accounting for a large portion of these ventures.

The UAE alone represents USD32.7 billion worth of airport investments underway or in the planning stage.

Dubai’s Al Maktoum International Airport for example entails an investment of over USD8 billion, while Dubai International is undertaking a USD7.8 billion airport and airspace expansion programme to boost capacity to 90 million travellers.

This comes in line with Dubai Airports’ plans to double the emirate’s passenger handling capacity to 200 million by 2045.

According to data released by Arabian Travel Market research, Kuwait has around 7,256 hotel rooms with a further 1,958 units and up to

“The tourism sector is becoming [highly important] to Kuwait, seeing how the government is starting to take development

TOURISM IS PENETRATING THE ONCE IGNORANT KUWAITI MARKET AND IS GRADUALLY BECOMING A NICHE SEGMENT WHICH