In 2022, international travel and tourism has continued to recover as the world reopens and COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. Globally, international tourist arrivals increased by 130 percent in January 2022 compared to January 2021, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNTWO), and within the Middle East region, tourism now accounts for nearly nine percent of GDP.
Radisson Hotel Group has recently announced the opening of Radisson Blu Mosi-oa-Tunya Livingstone Resort, Zambia.
Marriott Hotels, the signature flag of Marriott Bonvoy’s extraordinary portfolio of 30 hotel brands, recently announced the debut of its first resort in the UAE, Marriott Resort Palm Jumeirah, Dubai.
Under the new brand ‘Guatemala. Amazing and unstoppable’ the Central American country will be a FITUR 2023 Partner at one of the most important editions of the International Tourism Fair, which, organised by IFEMA MADRID, will be held from January 18-22, 2023 at the Spanish capital's Trade Fair Centre, and in a context marked by the acceleration of world tourism activity.
Under the new brand ‘Guatemala. Amazing and unstoppable’ the Central American country will be a FITUR 2023 Partner at one of the most important editions of the International Tourism Fair, which, organised by IFEMA MADRID, will be held from January 18-22, 2023 at the Spanish capital's Trade Fair Centre, and in a context marked by the acceleration of world tourism activity.
According to new research commissioned by Arabian Travel Market (ATM), and conducted at the end of September of this year by hotel market intelligence and global benchmarking company STR, the GCC region now has over 170,000 hotel rooms under active development (planning, final planning and under construction).
Pertaining its legacy as a unique cultural landmark, the award-winning palace, Qasr Al Watan, is hosting the ‘Pearls of Wisdom’ exhibition in collaboration with Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT) and Culture Planning & Development Department. Recently launched with an opening ceremony, the exhibition will be open to the public until January 06.
Split into seven zones and showcasing valuable manuscripts in the fields of literature, heritage, religion, music, philosophy, and science, the exhibition will take visitors on a historical journey that deliberates the influence of Arab culture on Europe, highlighting the role of Arab civilisation in generating religious dialogue and contributing knowledge that paved the way for the European Renaissance.
At the heart of House of Knowledge, visitors will find themselves in an immersive gallery panel covering the Golden Age of Islamic Civilization and Two regions that are at the heart of medieval Europe -Al-Andalus in the Iberian Peninsula and Sicily in southern Italy. As visitors get through the different zones they will be exposed to ‘The Evolution of Vernacular Arabic in Europe, Andalusian Calligraphy, Arabic Calligraphy in Sicilian Art, Bridge between Greek Knowledge and the Islamic World’ and many more monumental topics.
Before visitors conclude their visit, they can head to the Palace’s Library to explore a collection of more than 50,000 books about the UAE’s history and politics along with topics such as history, architecture, biology and ethnography.
In line with Bahrain cloud first policy, Gulf Air has collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leading cloud services provider, to deliver a resilient infrastructure to handle the transition of the core IT systems from the airline’s headquarters to the AWS cloud solution which will be used in the unlikely case of emergencies and operational disruptions.
Etihad Airways, the national carrier of the UAE, has announced it is reintroducing four of its Airbus A380s from the summer of 2023.
A new survey conducted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Kuwait has spotlighted the influence a company’s sustainability efforts can have on consumers’ behaviour and choice of brands.