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Saudi Arabia hosted global travel industry leaders across public and private sectors at the Tourism Recovery Summit in Riyadh recently. The summit convened to discuss common solutions and tangible actions as the sector enters a new era. Participants exchanged experiences, ideas and opportunities to ensure the future of tourism is …

The President of Emirates Sir Tim Clark recently shared that the demand for air travel could come back at a ‘staggering rate’ by Q4 2021, if the vaccine programme beats the virus. He further reiterated that the low cost carriers would benefit especially from intra-European travel and domestic travel at …

It was a refreshing change as the rules and regulations eased out for the travel and tourism sector in Dubai to host events under strict compliance, hence the Marhaba Europe brought together four of the tourism boards with 60+ partners and 80+ travel professionals from the region for two days …

An overwhelming majority (87%) of consumers in the UAE are satisfied with their stay in Dubai hotels since the beginning of the pandemic, and eight in 10 consumers are confident hotels apply the required level of sanitisation, according to KPMG’s report on Dubai’s hospitality industry. Despite strong outbound travel restrictions …

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia  has become the first country to pledge financial support to the Tourism Community Initiative, welcomed in the 2020 G20 Riyadh Leaders’ Declaration and the Diriyah Communiqué for the Tourism Working Group, and aligned with the AlUla Framework.[ The Saudi Ministry of Tourism, the World Bank, and …

Ireland has announced the adoption of the EU’s new Digital COVID Certificate. This will enable more seamless travel for tourists and will be extended to vaccinated visitors from outside of the EU, including the GCC countries, and will allow certain travellers to visit the island. Shehara Rizly Ireland will begin …

The pent-up demand for travel reveals that travellers who were frequent flyers before COVID-19 expect to take almost six flights in the next 12 months, underlining their desire to travel as soon as possible. 78% attribute being vaccinated against COVID-19 as key to their confidence in the safety of air …

Over the past few months, Yas Island has been busy with various new initiatives to ensure customer confidence to its wide array of experiences for family tourism from touchless journeys to an unforgettable experience. Marijana Mihajlovic, Director of Business Development, Experience Hub shares with TRAVTALK plans for the year. Shehara …

Travellers from the GCC yearn for excitement and exploration as it’s in their DNA to find new places of adventure, discover new cultures, follow historically famous areas or visit adrenaline pumping events in beautiful surroundings of nature – Azerbaijan offers all this and more. Florian Sengstschmid, CEO, Azerbaijan Tourism Board …

The pent-up demand for travel especially in the GCC has been growing for the past few months, the moment borders open, they are the first to travel. Switzerland Tourism Board is on a drive to welcome travellers and Martin Nydegger, CEO, Switzerland Tourism, shares more details with us. Shehara Rizly …