Data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) has become a big deal for the hospitality sector within the United Arab Emirates, particularly in regard to the collection, analysis and prediction of consumer decisions and preferences, according to experts. Radisson Hotel Group Middle East & Africa’s senior vice president, Tim Cordon, says that AI is starting to dominate the way that the hospitality sector ensures that its business models can operate and progress in the face of tough competition.…
Trade between the UK and the GCC is expected to rise in the wake of the former leaving the EU as it will be able to negotiate deals with the more liberal countries in the Gulf. Analysts claim that the British pound should also strengthen after Brexit, which will be a boost to tourism to Dubai as well as its real estate sectors because of a growth in the number of UK tourists and more…
A robust growth of as much as 170% by the year 2037 is predicted for the aviation sector in the United Arab Emirates, according to the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) chairman and UAE Minister of Economy Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri. Al Mansouri made the comments while opening the second edition of the Global Investment in Aviation Summit (GIAS) in Dubai, which has been organised by the GCAA with the aim of enabling growth…
Emirates has announced a new daily service that will fly from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to Malaysia’s Penang International Airport through Singapore. The new service will commence on 9th April. The service will be linked with Singapore, which will allow for easy travel between the two cities for passengers who can enjoy the award-winning service provided by the airline. Penang is to be the second Malaysian destination offered by Emirates after its capital…
The introduction of a new five-year tourist visa that enables multiple entries to the United Arab Emirates will help to fuel ambitious goals in the tourism industry and have a positive impact on the nation’s businesses, leading industry experts believe. Earlier in January, a tweet from the Ruler and Vice President of Dubai and the Prime Minister of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, revealed that the first 2020 meeting of the UAE…
On 25th January 2000, the first Emirates flight to Bahrain took off from Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates. The landing of the B777-200 was a huge milestone for the airline, and two decades has only seen the route growing in success. From that first flight 20 years ago, over 6.7 million passengers have been carried by Emirates planes to Bahrain via the Dubai route – a figure that is more than four…
The pop culture of South Korea has helped the number of tourists from the United Arab Emirates to the East Asian nation to almost double over the course of the last five years. Over two-thirds of the 17,000 tourists going from the UAE to South Korea in 2019 were Emiratis. There are a number of South Korean TV shows that are actually filmed in the UAE, including the likes of the reality show My Little…
Dubai’s tourism numbers grew by more than 5% to 16.73 million in 2019, a statement from the Dubai Media Office has revealed. Tourism is now responsible for as much as 11.5% of the GDP of the emirate, with Dubai now the third best city in the world for the capture of direct international tourism spending, according to the 2019 Cities Report from the World Travel & Tourism Council. The 2010s, and particularly 2019, have seen…
Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT) is to launch a new award scheme intended to honour excellence within the tourism and travel industry, a new report has revealed. The DCT is hoping to establish the new awards as a benchmark for the industry all over the world. The Abu Dhabi Tourism Excellence Awards have been created for the purpose of recognising important achievements and to stimulate networking and engagement. The hope is that…
The longest-standing travel provider in the United Arab Emirates, dnata Travel, has revealed the most popular travel destinations of the nation’s residents last year and the likely most popular destinations for 2020. The top five most popular travel destinations for residents of the UAE in 2019 were the UAE itself for the increasingly popular ‘staycations’, followed by Thailand, Turkey, the UK and Saudi Arabia. The top ten was rounded out by the Maldives, Italy, Egypt,…