Tourists from Israel will soon be allowed to freely visit the United Arab Emirates, according to a report from the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth on Wednesday. Israeli and UAE authorities are apparently engaged in high-level discussions to try to get the new policy put into practice. Israeli tourists will first be allowed to come to the UAE in order to attend Dubai’s Expo 2020 world fair, which is set to feature an Israeli pavilion. However, sources…
Residents of the United Arab Emirates are leading the way in the Arab world as the most likely travellers to Japan, according to the results of a new poll in an influential survey in the region. Arab News commissioned the YouGov survey as part of the recent launch of its edition in Japan and demonstrated that the Arab residents in the country are more likely than other Arabs in the region to have gone to…
The organisers of Expo 2020 in Dubai are hoping to attract as many as 25 million visitors and add nearly $30bn to the economy of the United Arab Emirates next year. The chief commercial officer of the world fair, Sanjive Khosla, says that achieving that goal would be an incredible benchmark and leave a lasting legacy that would demonstrate the sustainability of such massive events. Around 70% of the Dubai South site has already been…
The Health Tourism Department of Dubai will be participating in London’s World Travel Market 2019 as part of its effort to promote the emirate’s leading position as a destination for health and wellness treatments that is recognised all over the world. Dubai has been steadily growing in the health tourism industry and is continuing to try to improve the experience for wellness tourists and patients. The Dubai Health Authority says that 337,011 medical tourists came…
People who have come to the United Arab Emirates on a visit visa can renew it without having to first leave the country again in order to do so. There are a variety of methods that this can be done via Dubai’s General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs or a number of travel agents who are based in the UAE. The part that will please visitors the most is that they no longer have…
The Dubai Accessible Tourism Summit is to begin on Tuesday 5th November. The new platform will help the United Arab Emirates to move toward realising its vision of becoming one of the friendliest and best nations for people with disabilities, particularly in regard to travel and tourism. The first edition of the Summit is being held with the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum. Al Maktoum is also the CEO and…
Even on a budget, there are a number of great countries that people in the United Arab Emirates can travel to on holiday without breaking the bank. One of the easiest places to get to for a quick break is Oman. UAE tourists do not even need to get on a plane in order to take a trip to Oman – they can either drive there or go by bus in Dubai. In a car,…
The groundbreaking multi-specialty hospital Cleveland Clinic and Etihad, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, have joined forces in a bid to turn Abu Dhabi into a premier destination for medical tourism. The agreement is the first collaboration of its kind between a medical services provider and an airline in the region. The agreement will see Etihad offer a number of particular medical travel packages to important worldwide markets, providing a single package solution for the…
The travel agency based in the United Arab Emirates, dnata Travel, says that bookings to Russia from the UAE have increased by as much as 500% between the months of May and September this year in comparison to the same period in 2018. Russian bookings were recently made visa-free for people with UAE nationality. The retail and product head of dnata Travel, Emily Williams, says that travel to Russia from the UAE has experienced a…
A large number of jobseekers from Nepal are coming to the United Arab Emirates without having already got secure work permits in their home nation and could be exploited by the unscrupulous, according to a top Nepal Government minister. In an interview with Gulf News while visiting Abu Dhabi recently, Gokarna Bista, the Nepalese Labour Minister, says that those who do not get work permits could fall victim to dubious agents and fraudsters. 250,000 Nepalese…